recent history

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• SOURCE: The New Republic
  9/23/2022
  

  COVID Shows the US as a Country Kept from Grieving

  Historians Rhae Lynn Barnes, Keri Leigh Merritt, and Yohuru Williams have edited a new collection of essays putting the pandemic in historical perspective, with contributors showing how the pandemic robbed us of both life and time. 

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• SOURCE: Slate
  4/12/2022
  

  New Trump Book Shows Promise, Peril of Writing Very Recent History

  by Paul M. Renfro

  The Presidency of Donald J. Trump is an ambitious and compelling book, one that covers a great deal of territory, but sometimes is hindered by the ongoing tendency of its subject to focus on himself, says historian Paul Renfro.

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• SOURCE: Bloomberg CityLab
  6/29/2021
  

  The World’s Museums Are Working Out How to Remember the Pandemic

  Trends upward for vaccination and downward for new infections mean that people are able to return to in-person museum visits. Are they ready to view exhibitions on the pandemic? 

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• SOURCE: New York Times
  3/22/2021
  

  The Trump Presidency Is History. They’re Writing the First Draft

  “The challenge with President Trump is understanding the foundational elements of his presidency as deeply rooted in basic features of American history,” Julian Zelizer said, while also noting the places “where the presidency jumped the shark.”

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• 3/7/2021
  

  When Did America Stop Being Great?

  by Nick Bryant

  Nick Bryant began observing America as a 16 year old at the patriotic spectacle of the 1984 Olympics. His book traces the path from "Morning in America" to "American Carnage," fixing some blame but also seeking a way through. 

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• SOURCE: Governing
  12/21/2020
  

  Has Twitter Changed How History Will See This Era?

  Carole McGranahan, a professor of history and anthropology, says that social media need to be taken seriously as sources of insight into the actions of prominent and anonymous people alike, and need to be preserved as sources.

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• 5/31/2020
  

  Disruption and Resilience: Lessons from the Ancient History of the 2000s

  by Garrett Peck

  The history of the 2000s is a story of human resilience in the face of crisis. We must find ways to respond to disruption with mutual care and creativity. 

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• 5/17/2020
  

  Hong Kong Apocalypses: Teaching the Recent Past and the Speculative Future

  by James Carter

  The chaos of Hong Kong's recent protests and the Coronavirus unsettled a historian's sense of the boundary between past and present. Perhaps we understand either only through the mirror of the other. 

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• SOURCE: Society of U.S. Intellectual History
  1/7/20
  

  U-USIH Examines the Biggest Developments of the Past Decade

  by Tim Lacy

  A Decade in Review: Cultural Markers, Keywords, and Other (Totally Subjective) Noteworthy Things

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• SOURCE: Time
  9/10/19
  

  9/11 Is History Now. Here's How American Kids Are Learning About It in Class

  by Olivia B. Waxman

  Textbooks are not the go-to resource for learning about 9/11 in 2019.