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• SOURCE: Smithsonian Magazine
  Accessed 9/19/19
  

  Women Scientists Were Written Out of History. It’s Margaret Rossiter’s Lifelong Mission to Fix That

  The historian has devoted her career to bringing to light the ingenious accomplishments of those who have been forgotten.

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• SOURCE: Washington Monthly
  Accessed 9/19/19
  

  Allen C. Guelzo Reviews Sidney Blumenthal's Latest Installment of His Biography of Lincoln

  by Allen C. Guelzo

  "Blumenthal never allows the intensity of Lincoln’s story to flag for a moment."

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• SOURCE: NY Times
  9/18/19
  

  What Reconstruction-Era Laws Can Teach Our Democracy: The NY Times Reviews Eric Foner's Latest Book

  by Lincoln Caplan

  “The Second Founding” reflects Foner’s rigorously researched, now mainstream view that Reconstruction was “a massive experiment in interracial democracy."

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• SOURCE: New Books Network
  9/9/19
  

  Habeas Corpus in Wartime: Derek Litvak Interviews Amanda L. Tyler

  by Derek Litvak

  Habeas Corpus in Wartime is a comprehensive history of the writ of habeas corpus in Anglo-America.

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  9/5/19
  

  Laure Adler and Camille Viéville's new book rewrites art history to include women

  A review of  “The Trouble with Women Artists." 

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• 9/8/19
  

  A Nation Headed to Civil War: The Compromise of 1850

  by Sidney Blumenthal

  An excerpt from ALL THE POWERS OF EARTH by Sidney Blumenthal.

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• 9/8/19
  

  Sir Ian Kershaw on His Latest Book, Brexit, and the Future of Europe

  by David O’Connor

  "The EU has come a long way and, as Brexit shows, the networks built up over previous decades are extremely complex."

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• SOURCE: Not Even Past
  9/4/19
  

  Reviewing Dispossessed Lives: Enslaved Women, Violence, and the Archive by Marisa Fuentes (2016)

  by Tiana Wilson

  Fuentes’ work contributes to the historical knowledge of early America through her focus on violence and how it operated during slavery and continues today through archives. 

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• SOURCE: University of Arkansas News
  9/4/19
  

  Historian Caree Banton Publishes New Book on Race and Identity in Atlantic World

  Banton closely examines the Afro-Barbadians and provides a transatlantic approach to understanding the political and sociocultural consequences of their migration and settlement in Africa.

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• SOURCE: NY Times
  9/4/19
  

  When Henrietta Wood Won Reparations in 1878

  by W. Caleb McDaniel

  She sued the man who had kidnapped her into slavery for damages and lost wages, offering lessons for today’s debate.

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• SOURCE: AP
  9/1/19
  

  Jeffrey Ostler's "Surviving Genocide" argues that the emergence of American democracy depended on the taking of Native lands

  The book comes as scholars and writers are challenging narratives around American history and how it hurt people of color.

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• SOURCE: CBC News
  8/24/19
  

  How do you measure a woman's pain? Historian Whitney Wood aims to find out

  Medical historian Whitney Wood is the new Canada Research Chair at Nanaimo's Vancouver Island University.

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  8/23/19
  

  Ibram X. Kendi Profiled in Washington Post

  For Ibram Kendi, being ‘not racist’ doesn’t cut it. He insists that we, and he, be ‘antiracist.’

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• SOURCE: News @ Wesleyan
  8/23/19
  

  ‘A Right to Bear Arms?’ Edited by Jennifer Tucker, Barton C. Hacker, and Margaret Vining Explores History of Gun Debate

  These essays offer both general readers and specialists a valuable study of how history itself has become a contested site within the wider national legal debate about firearms.

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• SOURCE: Diverse Education
  8/23/19
  

  Historian Carl Suddler's New Book Probes Black Youth, Criminal Justice

  Dr. Carl Suddler, an assistant professor of history at Emory University, puts the intersection of race, gender, youth and incarceration under a searing spotlight in his new book, Presumed Criminal: Black Youth and the Justice System in Postwar New York.

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• SOURCE: Tablet
  8/14/19
  

  Is the U.S. Constitution Pro-Slavery?

  A review of Sean Wilentz's No Property in Man: Slavery and Antislavery at the Nation’s Founding. 

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• SOURCE: The New Republic
  8/16/19
  

  Brenda Wineapple Reviews WOMEN’S WAR: FIGHTING AND SURVIVING THE AMERICAN CIVIL WAR 
by Stephanie McCurry

  Who wrote women out of Civil War history?

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• SOURCE: New Yorker
  8/12/19
  

  Kendi's "How to Be an AntiRacist" and the Fight to Redefine Racism

  by Kalefa Sanneh

  In “How to Be an Antiracist,” Ibram X. Kendi argues that we should think of “racist” not as a pejorative but as a simple, widely encompassing term of description.

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• 8/18/19
  

  Book Review: Jeremy Black's Imperial Legacies

  by Jeff Roquen

  While Black lapses into a biased apologia and generalizes at the expense of factual evidence, Imperial Legacies, on the whole, delivers a long overdue re-contextualization of the British Empire.

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• SOURCE: Wall Street Journal
  8/6/19
  

  ‘Karl Marx: Philosophy and Revolution’ Review: On the Marxist Question

  by Jonathan Rose

  A new biography presents him not as a clockwork economic determinist but rather as a flexible analyst of capitalism.