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SOURCE: Harvard Crimson
2/16/2022
Harvard Law Prof Responds to Critics of His "Comfort Women" Claims, Fails to Squelch Controversy
Two Harvard historians (and several colleagues at other instituitons) say that Mark Ramseyer's defense of his article claiming Korean "comfort women" freely contracted their labor as sex workers serving Japanese soldiers during World War II ignores the substance of their criticism.
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SOURCE: The New Yorker
2/26/2021
Seeking the True Story of the Comfort Women
by Jeannie Suk Gersen
A Harvard Law School professor tried to understand why her colleague made a provocative and contrarian argument that Korean "comfort women" engaged in voluntary sex work. She discovered that recourse to the facts was both straightforward and frustrating.
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SOURCE: New York Times
2/26/2021
A Harvard Professor Called Wartime Sex Slaves ‘Prostitutes.’ One Pushed Back
One of the last survivors among the Korean "comfort women" of World War II has denounced a recent paper characterizing the trafficking of women by the Imperial Japanese Army as ordinary prostitution.
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SOURCE: The Way of Improvement Leads Home
7/25/2020
The New York Times Covers the “Clash of the Historians” at SHEAR
by John Fea
An early Americanist reflects on the controversy stirred up by the Society for Historians of the Early American Republic's virtual plenary and its coverage in the mainstream media, and asks whether these are the battles historians should be fighting right now.
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SOURCE: Threadreader
7/18/2020
Regarding Daniel Feller's Plenary (Twitter thread)
by Rebecca Anne Goetz (as Historianess)
"Feller opened with comments on Trump and Jackson, with the implication that attaching AJ to Trump was distorting AJ and his context. I was willing to go along with the premise until Feller insisted that AJ's record on Native people was not as bad as we think."
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SOURCE: The Way of Improvement
7/20/2020
Thoughts on Daniel Feller’s Plenary Address at SHEAR 2020
by John Fea
John Fea evaluates the shortcomings of Daniel Feller's virtual plenary talk at SHEAR and the online responses to it.
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SOURCE: H-SHEAR
7/18/2020
President's Statement on SHEAR 2020
by Douglas R. Egerton
The President of the Society for the History of the Early American Republic responds to the controversy provoked by Daniel Feller's remarks in the organization's virtual plenary session, which included repeated quotations of racial slurs from primary sources, a defense of Andrew Jackson, and harsh words for unnamed historians writing for the broader public.
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SOURCE: Seattle Times
3/2/2020
Bellevue College President, Vice President Out after Mural on Japanese American Incarceration was Altered
The deletion was condemned by the Seattle chapter of the Japanese American Citizens League, which called the act “tantamount to agreement with the hate speech of decades past.”