American History

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  4/29/19
  

  She was captured and enslaved 400 years ago. Now Angela symbolizes a brutal history.

  Angela’s arrival in Jamestown in 1619 marked the beginning of a subjugation that left millions in chains.

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• SOURCE: Time
  4/18/19
  

  What Was the Biggest Political Scandal in American History? 7 Historians Make Their Picks

  Featuring Heather Cox Richardson, Joanne B. Freeman, Manisha Sinha, Douglas Brinkley, Robert Dallek, Barbara A. Perry, and Julian E. Zelizer.

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• SOURCE: Time
  4/19/19
  

  How the Black Colleges Beyoncé Honors in Homecoming Have Played a Vital Role in American History

  The feeling of unity expressed by Beyoncé’s loving tribute goes even deeper than viewers may know: throughout that history, HBCUs have contributed to every sphere of American life.

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• SOURCE: NY Times
  4/23/19
  

  Kristin L. Hoganson Dismantles the Myth of ‘The Heartland’

  “The heartland myth insists that there is a stone-solid core at the center of the nation."

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• SOURCE: NY Times
  3/29/19
  

  Pamela S. Nadell's New book Shows How the Country Influenced Jewish American Women, and Vice Versa

  From Betty Friedan to Sonia Pressman, Bella Abzug and Gerda Lerner, Jewish women had an outsize role in the feminist struggle. 

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• SOURCE: Informed Comment
  3/11/19
  

  America’s Long History of Hysteria about Women’s Veils: Jeanine Pirro and Ilhan Omar

  by Juan Cole

  In fact, nothing is more American historically than veiling and debates on veiling. 

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• SOURCE: Time
  2/25/19
  

  Green Book and the Oscars' Complicated History With Movies About Race

  While many supporters of Green Book believe it’s a clever inversion of old tropes, its detractors see its victory as a continuation of the Oscars rewarding a familiarly naive story, told from a familiarly white viewpoint.

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• SOURCE: Slate
  2/22/19
  

  America Needs an Education in Whiteness

  by Jordan Lindsey

  Not a white equivalent of Black History Month—but a better understanding of the concept of whiteness and the harm it inflicts on race relations.

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• SOURCE: Forbes
  2/22/19
  

  A Separate History? How Blacks and Whites View Black Leaders

  There were some significant differences between blacks and whites in terms of their knowledge of the figures the pollsters examined with blacks being more knowledgeable in almost every case.

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• SOURCE: Chicago Tribune
  2/25/19
  

  Daniel Immerwahr Profiled by Chicago Tribune

  “How to Hide an Empire” builds towards a single, reality-scrambling concept: that the familiar map of the United States you know, sea to shining sea, Atlantic to Pacific, Canada to Mexico, is wrong.

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• SOURCE: Wall Street Journal
  2/15/19
  

  A Look at African-American History, Through the Numbers

  In recognition of Black History Month, here are a few facts and figures about the African-American experience in the U.S.

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• SOURCE: New York Review of Books
  2/7/19
  

  America’s Original Identity Politics

  by Sarah Churchwell

  The good news for anyone feeling perturbed is that it simply isn’t true that identity politics represents the end of America or of liberal democracy. 

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• 2/24/19
  

  A Dozen Books To Help Weather The Political Storm

  by John T. Shaw

  The discipline of serious reading helps us slow down, think more carefully, weigh evidence, and respect - and expect - careful argument.

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• 2/3/19
  

  Six Times the Failure of a Political Nomination Changed American History 

  by Ronald L. Feinman

  Including slavery, gay marriage, abortion rights, and desegregation. 

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• SOURCE: Truthout
  1/22/19
  

  US Taxpayers Have Been Funding Big Business’s Wars for 233 Years

  by Barbara G. Ellis

  US corporations have exploited national pride to reap huge profits from taxpayer-funded wars.

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• 2/10/19
  

  Old Concepts for New Concerns: the Railroad, the Internet, and Government Regulation

  by Tom Wheeler

  "The principles underpinning the industrial era rules remain valid today, they simply need updating to reflect the capabilities of the new technology." writes the former FCC Chairman.

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• SOURCE: Independent
  1/18/19
  

  Historian's new TV series tears apart America's revered founding myths

  Lucy Worsley presents American History’s Biggest Fibs.

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• SOURCE: Voice of America
  1/11/19
  

  Historian Susan Schulten on How Maps Provide a Special View of American History

  Early maps helped establish a national identity and loyalty for the United States in its early days.

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• SOURCE: New York Review of Books
  1/10/19
  

  The History of the Long War Against a Gay ‘Cure’

  “Yes, we are sick—we are sick of your manipulation and exploitation of us,” gay activist Frank Kameny declared in 1971.

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• SOURCE: Smithsonian.com
  Accessed 1/4/19
  

  Historian Daniel Immerwahr Explores What America’s Territories Reveal About American History

  In “How to Hide an Empire,” Daniel Immerwahr explores America far beyond the borders of the Lower 48