military history

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• SOURCE: NPR
  7/1/2020
  

  Trump Vows To Veto Defense Bill If It Removes Confederate Names From Military Bases

  Trump stood up for the honor of Confederate leaders while also lobbing a racist insult at Senator Elizabeth Warren and native Americans. 

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  7/2/2020
  

  Yes, President Trump, Confederate Base Names Celebrate Heritage — A Shameful One

  by Chad Williams

  The military currently has problems with racial equality in its ranks, and removing the names of Confederate leaders from military facilities represents one step in the direction of reform. 

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  6/23/2020
  

  The Military Provides a Model for how Institutions can Address Racism

  by Margaret B. Montgomery

  Making good on the military's policies of desegregation required organized pressure to change military justice and the communities around military installations. 

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• SOURCE: Smithsonian Magazine
  6/15/2020
  

  Five Women Veterans Who Deserve to Have Army Bases Named After Them

  The U.S. Army has 10 installations named after Confederate generals. Zero are named after women.

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• 6/21/2020
  

  Peace is Temporary Without Trustworthy Leaders: Lessons from the Philadelphia Mutiny

  by David Head

  In an environment of intense mutual suspicion—soldiers accused civilians of stingy ingratitude while civilians saw the army as a threat to their liberty—Washington’s trustworthiness bound the two sides together.

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• SOURCE: The Atlantic
  6/14/2020
  

  Why the Confederate Flag Flew During World War II

  by Matthew Delmont

  As white, southern troops raised the battle flag, they showed that they were fighting for change abroad—but the status quo at home.

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• SOURCE: PolitiFact
  6/16/2020
  

  Military Bases Named for Confederates: Renaming Suggestions From Military Historians

  We wondered why the bases have these names in the first place, so we checked with eight military historians.

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• SOURCE: New York Times
  6/11/2020
  

  These Are the 10 U.S. Army Installations Named for Confederates

  A debate is unfolding over whether to rename the installations, as part of a broader national reckoning over buildings, monuments and memorials to men who fought to preserve slavery and uphold white supremacy.

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• SOURCE: Axios
  6/10/2020
  

  Trump Says he Will "Not Even Consider" Renaming Bases Named for Confederate Leaders

  The President insisted that the names of military leaders from the losing side of the Civil War who fought for slavery and white supremacy were associated with "a history of Winning, Victory, and Freedom."

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• SOURCE: War on the Rocks
  6/8/2020
  

  The Promise and Risks of Artificial Intelligence: A Brief History

  by Rebecca Slayton

  Machines have been taking over tasks that otherwise require human intelligence for decades, if not centuries.

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  6/4/2020
  

  Should Military Officers like Jim Mattis Enter the Political Arena?

  by Michael J. Stricof

  As much as Trump opponents cheered Mattis’s statement, and retired military officers will probably play a further role in the 2020 campaign going forward, it could do more damage than good.

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• SOURCE: New York Review of Books
  5/28/2020
  

  Botch on the Rhine (Review)

  A new book blames British Field Marshal Bernard Montgomery's thirst for glory for Operation Market Garden, an ill-fated effort to drop airborne troops behind the Rhine River to accelerate the Allied invasion of Germany.

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• SOURCE: New York Times
  5/22/2020
  

  Looking at War Across 2,500 Years (Review Essay)

  Recent books highlight the vast gap between perceptions and reality in warfare and foreground the gap between people who call for war and who fight it. 

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• SOURCE: Boston Globe
  5/22/2022
  

  Renovations Start on Civil War Memorial Honoring the Massachusetts 54th Regiment

  The renovation site will be a popup history museum as barriers will be decorated with recruitment posters, servicemen's letters, and other ephemera from the history of the Massachusetts 54th regiment of African American soldiers. 

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• SOURCE: New York Times
  5/24/2020
  

  June Willenz, Champion of Women in the Military, Dies at 95

  She didn’t serve in the military herself. But she saw the armed services denying equal benefits to female veterans, and she crusaded to make a difference.

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• SOURCE: Facing South
  5/24/2020
  

  Remembering Ray Eurquhart, a Lifelong Activist Radicalized in the Military

  Ray Eurquhart developed as an activist by organizing his fellow Air Force personnel during his Vietnam-era service, bringing the demands of civil rights movements into the military.

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• SOURCE: New York Times
  5/24/2020
  

  Why Does the U.S. Military Celebrate White Supremacy?

  It is time to rename bases for American heroes — not racist traitors.

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• 5/24/2020
  

  "The News Will Get Out Soon Enough": Homefront Jim Crow and the Integration of the U.S. Navy

  by Dan C. Goldberg

  Politico reporter Dan Goldberg's new book details how thirteen black men overcame prejudice and indifference to integrate the Navy's officer corps in 1944. 

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• SOURCE: TIME
  5/19/2020
  

  How the U.S. Navy’s First Black Officers Helped Reshape the American Military

  by Dan C. Goldberg

  The story of the Navy’s first black officers remains little known, overshadowed by the heroism of the Tuskegee Airmen and Patton’s Panthers.

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• 5/3/2020
  

  The Second Battle of Gettysburg: Eisenhower’s Fight with the 1918 Flu Pandemic

  by Jack M. Holl

  Dwight Eisenhower played a pivotal role in protecting the troops under his command and the civilians living around Camp Colt in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania from the 1918 influenza pandemic.