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SOURCE: Inside Higher Ed
12/4/2020
French Academics Fear Becoming Scapegoats in War on Terrorism
The killing of a social studies teacher has opened French academics to accusations of supporting radical Islamists and undermining France's policy of national secularism; those who turn a critical lens to French colonialism and racism in contemporary France have received sharp criticism from nationalist and center-right politicians.
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11/15/2020
A Medieval Perspective on the Public Acceptance of Women as Leaders
by Erika Graham-Goering
Whether in medieval France or in modern democracies, women's exercise of leadership has been constrained by gendered ideas of who can lead.
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SOURCE: New York Times
11/5/2020
Watch This 1897 Snowball Fight for a Jolt of Pure Joy
The footage was captured in Lyon, in 1897, by the Lumière brothers, who were among the world’s first filmmakers.
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SOURCE: New York Times
10/26/2020
A Teacher, His Killer and the Failure of French Integration
The murder of a French social studies teacher who showed his multiethnic class images offensive to Islam illustrates the dilemma of the French policy of secularism, which is beset on one side by complaints that immigrants do not assimilate and on the other by rising xenophobia and racism.
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SOURCE: Black Perspectives
9/9/2020
Black Women in Nineteenth-Century France: An Interview with Historian Robin Mitchell
Robin Mitchell's book "Vénus Noire: Black Women and Colonial Fantasies in Nineteenth-Century France" examines how sexualized descriptions of Black women contributed to French racism.
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SOURCE: New York Times
9/4/2020
A Coded Word From the Far Right Roils France’s Political Mainstream
Historians Pascal Blanchard and Pap Ndiaye say that the hot-button term "ensauvagement" reflects France's unrecognized history of colonialism and the prevalent belief that the French helped elevate the people they colonized; the present-day right wing uses the term to imply that immigrants from France's former colonies require control and repression.
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SOURCE: Foreign Affairs
7/20/2020
The Strange Defeat of the United States
by Robert Zaretsky
Eighty years later, Bloch’s investigation casts useful light for those historians who, gripped by the white heat of their own moment, may seek to understand the once unthinkable defeat of the United States in its “war” against the new coronavirus.
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SOURCE: Slate
7/13/2020
The Book of Smells
Historian Robert Muchembled’s new history is full of disgusting, delicious details about early modern France.
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SOURCE: The Conversation
6/30/2020
When France Extorted Haiti – the Greatest Heist in History
by Marlene Daut
Because the indemnity Haiti paid to France is the first and only time a formerly enslaved people were forced to compensate those who had once enslaved them, Haiti should be at the center of the global movement for reparations.
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SOURCE: Yahoo! News
6/24/2020
Top French Historian Slams Macron's Hardline Stance on Statues
Historian Nicolas Offenstadt told French radio that Macron had a made a "hugely damaging confusion between history and memory that will not help public debate in France."
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6/14/2020
Tear Down that Statue, Mr. Macron!
by Marlene L. Daut
Four figures from French history whose statues could replace that of Jefferson in Paris.
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6/14/2020
Misremembering the Fall of France 80 Years Later (Part 2)
by Robert J. Young
The French defeat was driven by strategic error and faulty battlefield strategy, but not by a lack of will to fight.
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6/14/2020
Misremembering the Fall of France 80 Years Later (Part 1)
by Robert J. Young
On the 80th anniversary of the Fall of France, it's time to retire the idea that the French surrendered without a fight.
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SOURCE: The New York Times
6/9/2020
Its Defenses Undone by a Virus, France Seeks Lessons From a Lost War
Marc Bloch's book "Strange Defeat," written in 1940 about France’s defeat in World War II, has taken on a curious resonance as the country gazes across the border at Germany and asks why it has weathered the pandemic better.
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SOURCE: Air Mail
6/6/2020
Nazi Lockdown
by Ronald C. Rosbottom
The German occupation crushed ordinary life in Paris as its citizens hid from the “brown plague.”
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SOURCE: Los Angeles Review of Books
5/11/2020
“Don’t Regret. Remember”: Frictions of History and Gender in Céline Sciamma’s “Portrait of a Lady on Fire”
by Paris A. Spies-Gans
Historian Paris A. Spies-Gans discusses the historical references and significance of the critically acclaimed French film.
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SOURCE: History.com
5/6/2020
This Day in History: English Channel Tunnel Opens (1994)
In 1996, the American Society of Civil Engineers identified the tunnel as one of the Seven Wonders of the Modern World.
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SOURCE: New York Times
4/6/2020
Marie Antoinette Would Be Proud
The palace has called on skilled designers, historians, botanists and gardeners to apply their expertise to the complicated work of restoring that spot, called Le Bosquet de la Reine, or the Queen’s Grove.
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11/10/19
The History Behind a Recently Defaced French Holocaust Memorial
by Norman JW Goda
The memorial plaque at 12 rue Sainte-Catherine in the central part of town contained the names of the 86 Jews arrested at that address on 9 February 1943. It was the largest single roundup of Jews in the city. On the plaque, black paint was used to cross out their names.
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10/6/19
The Nazi Census and a Quiet Hero
by Dwight Harshbarger
The census and discrimination from Nazi Germany to today.
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