Syrian refugees 
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SOURCE: NBC News
Civil war destroyed their homes. These Syrian refugees are learning how to rebuild them.
"If we’re not doing it, if we’re not going to do it, I don’t think anyone else will.”
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4-16-17
Make American Humanitarianism Great Again
by Bradley J. Brewer
Accepting refugees from Syria will strengthen America – a lesson we learned after World War II when we welcomed German refugees from Europe.
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12-18-16
Do Countries Have a Legal Obligation to Protect Refugees Fleeing Oppression?
by Jennifer Freilach
They do and here’s how that came about.
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11-20-16
The Horrible Laws that Blocked Jews from the US after World War 2 but Let Nazis in
by Richard Rashke
Truman fought for the Jews but lost in Congress.
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12-25-16
The Long History of Hostility toward Refugees
by Laura Madokoro
We even saw it in the Cold War when refugees by the hundreds of thousands fled China after Mao’s victory.
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11-15-16
Harry Truman’s Heroic Fight for Refugees (And Congress’s Limp Reaction)
by Richard Rashke
The story the next president of the United States should read.
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10-30-16
When the World Looked Away as Jews Died in Europe
by Richard Rashke
The appalling indifference to Jewish refugees in World War II.
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11-15-16
We Aren’t Ignoring the Plight of Refugees as We Did in the 1930s. But …
by Peter Fritzsche
Our behavior toward refugees in our midst has been deplorably similar.
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10-15-16
So We’re Ignoring the Plight of Syrian Refugees? It’s an Old Story.
by Richard Rashke
The first in a series of articles about the world’s indifference to Jewish refugees in the 1930s.
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10-15-16
We Had Our Own Refugee Crisis. You Know it as the Civil War.
by Chandra Manning
The refugees were slaves who fled their masters’ estates to find refuge behind Union lines.
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SOURCE: OUPblog
12-23-15
Can history help us manage humanitarian crises?
by Richard Breitman
This question is particularly timely given the massive outflow of refugees from Syria and the problems of admitting large numbers of refugees to other countries, including the United States.
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12-22-15
The Disconcerting Reason We Aren’t Racing to Embrace Syrian Refugees
by Bethany Sharpe
We don’t just fear young adult males, but children and women, too.
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12-27-15
The Unintended Consequences of War: The Origins of America’s First Refugee Crisis
by Michael A. McDonnell
There’s a lesson here if only we open our eyes and see it.
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12-9-15
Reagan Welcomed Hundreds of Thousands of Boat People. And Today the GOP Is Demonizing Refugees?
by Joe Krulder
What gives?
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12-5-15
Deny Syrian Refugees Entry to the US? We’ve Been Here Before.
by Leonard Greenspoon
“Discrimination against immigrants or refugees based on religion isn’t new in the U.S. It happened to my family almost 100 years ago.”
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SOURCE: The Washington Post
11-30-15
The United States’ tried and true anti-refugee history
Gallup has detailed a number of instances throughout history in which Americans were confronted with potentially accepting refugees. And almost without exception, there has been significantly more opposition than support.
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SOURCE: ABC News
11-25-15
Anne Frank Faced Challenges Similar to Syrian Refugees, Richard Breitman Says
"The State Department determined that anyone who had close relatives in Germany, the Soviet Union or fascist Italy were a security threat, and even though Otto and Anne were in the Netherlands."
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11-22-15
Oh, No, It’s Happening Again!
by Roy E. Finkenbine
America is caught in the grip of xenophobic hysteria.
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11-20-15
“Give us Your Huddled Masses” But ….
by Brian Glyn Williams
Syrians Need Not Apply?
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SOURCE: WSET
11-19-15
Roanoke mayor approvingly cites WW 2 Japanese internment camps in defense of exclusion of Syrians
Historians immediately responded with scorn.
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