Rudy Giuliani

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• SOURCE: New York Magazine
  10/4/2021
  

  The Forgotten, but Consequential, New York City Police Riot of 1992

  Encouraged by Rudy Giuliani, thousands of New York City Police officers, some drunk, staged a riot at City Hall and on the Brooklyn Bridge to protest Mayor David Dinkins's 1992 proposal of an all-civilian, independent police complaint review board. Why has this pivotal event been scrubbed from many New Yorkers' memories? 

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• 3/7/2021
  

  The History Behind Demands for "Trial by Combat"

  by Eric Jager

  A call for "trial by combat" may seem desperate or insane, but may also hint at a desire for a clear, definitive verdict when truth proves elusive. A medievalist reconstructs the world that allowed the last legal, judicial duel. 

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• 10/11/19
  

  The History Briefing On This Week's Impeachment Updates: How Historians Helped Us Understand the News

  by Paige Morse

  Historians play a key role in contextualizing current events for the public.

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  10/9/19
  

  Rudy Giuliani comparing impeachment to the Salem witch trials is a little right and a lot wrong, expert says

  Featuring historian Emerson W. Baker. 

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• SOURCE: Tikkun
  10/9/19
  

  What’s happening to Giuliani now was happening to him long before 9/11

  by Jim Sleeper

  Giuliani’s mind and career tell us as much as the impeachment inquiries are likely to do about why Trump’s presidency is so perverse.