Roundup

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• SOURCE: Tom Dispatch
  2/18/20
  

  “The Right to Do Whatever I Want as President”

  by Rebecca Gordon

  Impunity Guaranteed for Torturers (and Presidents)

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• SOURCE: Tablet
  2/14/20
  

  The Shadow Election

  by Paul Berman

  2020, 1941, and the grand-scale rollback of a shared devotion to democratic freedom.

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• SOURCE: NY Times
  2/14/20
  

  There Have Been 10 Black Senators Since Emancipation

  by Eric Foner

  Elected 150 years ago, Hiram Revels was the first.

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• SOURCE: NY Times
  2/16/20
  

  What We Still Don’t Get About George Washington

  by Alexis Coe

  There continue to be ways to look with fresh eyes at our founding-est founding father.

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• SOURCE: USA Today
  2/16/20
  

  Go out and shop the Presidents Day sales. It's what George Washington would have done!

  by David Head

  Washington made fashionable purchases that shaped his sense of self and helped him think through the colonies' relationship with the mother country.

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• SOURCE: NY Times
  2/15/20
  

  The Equality That Wasn’t Enough

  by Jamelle Bouie

  The most radical Radical Republicans had a better idea of how to cast the 15th Amendment. We should have listened to them.

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• SOURCE: Time
  2/16/20
  

  Abraham Lincoln Healed a Divided Nation. We Should Heed His Words Today.

  by Edward Achorn

  Abraham Lincoln repeatedly tops polls as our greatest and most revered president. But few people thought so on March 4, 1865, when he took the oath of office for the second time.

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• SOURCE: The Conversation
  2/14/20
  

  Think the US is more polarized than ever? You don’t know history

  by Gary W. Gallagher

  To compare anything that has transpired in the past few years to this cataclysmic upheaval represents a spectacular lack of understanding about American history.

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• SOURCE: Activist History Review
  

  Historical Memory and the Slave Narrative Collection

  by Sarah Whitwell

  Rather than viewing memory as a passive process of recalling lived experiences as objective truths, historians have begun to view memory as an active ordering of the past.

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• 2/14/20
  

  Roundup Top 10!

  This week's broad sampling of opinion pieces found on the Internet, as selected by the editor of HNN.

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• SOURCE: NY Times
  2/12/20
  

  Bernie Sanders Has Already Won

  by Michael Kazin

  Whether he captures the White House or not, he has transformed the Democratic Party.

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  2/12/20
  

  What winning New Hampshire — and its media frenzy — could mean for Bernie Sanders

  by Kathryn Cramer Brownell

  The New Hampshire returns tell us a lot about the leading candidates.

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  2/12/20
  

  Is Pete Buttigieg Jimmy Carter 2.0?

  by J. Brooks Flippen

  To win the White House and be a successful president, he must learn from an eerily similar candidate.

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• SOURCE: Al Jazeera
  2/11/20
  

  America held hostage

  by David Marks

  Forty years after the Iran hostage crisis, its impact endures.

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• SOURCE: Time
  2/11/20
  

  The Civil War Wasn't Just About the Union and the Confederacy. Native Americans Played a Role Too

  by Megan Kate Nelson

  “Inasmuch as bloody [conflicts] were the order of the day in those times,” their report read, “it is easy to see that each comet was the harbinger of a fearful and devastating war.”

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• SOURCE: NY Times
  2/11/20
  

  Shifting Collective Memory in Tulsa

  by Russell Cobb

  The African-American community is working to change the narrative of the 1921 massacre.

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  2/13/20
  

  Donald Trump’s continued assault on government workers betrays American farmers

  by Louis A. Ferleger

  Government scientists made U.S. agriculture powerful, but Trump administration cuts could undermine it.

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• SOURCE: Boston Globe
  2/10/20
  

  Senators hail their emperor, but Trump’s no shoo-in for a second term

  by Niall Ferguson

  The eventual Democratic nominee will have at least some chance of beating Trump.

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• SOURCE: NY Times
  2/6/20
  

  When White Women Wanted a Monument to Black ‘Mammies’

  by Alison M. Parker

  A 1923 fight shows Confederate monuments are about power, not Southern heritage.

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• SOURCE: Tom Dispatch
  2/9/20
  

  World War III’s Newest Battlefield

  by Michael T. Klare

  U.S. Troops Head for the Far North