Roundup

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• SOURCE: TPM
  4/1/2020
  

  For More Than A Century, Americans Fine-Tuned The Rules Of Democracy. Why Have We Stopped?

  by Gregory P. Downs

  The United States has survived not by keeping the same system but by transforming its rules at crucial moments.

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• SOURCE: Scholarly Kitchen
  4/2/2020
  

  The Internet Archive Chooses Readers

  by Karin Wulf

  To elevate the needs of the reader above all others is to dismiss the labor of archivists, authors, compositors, designers, editors, librarians, marketers, metadata creators, and all the other myriad people involved in bringing knowledge into being and into the marketplace.

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  3/31/2020
  

  During the Covid-19 Pandemic, Immigrant Farmworkers are Heroes

  by Eladio Bobadilla

  Tracing Cesar Chavez's transforming views on immigration may shed light on how we can support farmworkers’ rights today.

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  3/31/2020
  

  If We Want to Stop Covid-19, We Can’t Forget the Incarcerated

  by Jessica L. Adler

  Imprisoned people are especially at risk, just as they were during the HIV/AIDS crisis.

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  4/1/2020
  

  Yes, Covid-19 Treatment Must Be Free for All. But That’s Not Enough.

  by Mical Raz

  Carving out exceptions for treating specific illnesses undermines health.

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• SOURCE: Nursing Clio
  3/26/2020
  

  The Lone Woman of Kokura

  by Nyri A. Bakkalian

  Who was the Lone Woman in the Kokura Castle town ruins that day in 1866? We don’t know her name, though we know where she died in Kokura.

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• SOURCE: The New Yorker
  3/30/2020
  

  Reality Has Endorsed Bernie Sanders

  by Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor

  American life has been suddenly and dramatically upended, and, when things are turned upside down, the bottom is brought to the surface and exposed to the light.

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• SOURCE: TomDispatch
  3/29/2020
  

  Having It Easy in the Beginning, Tough in the End

  by William J. Astore

  Retired Air Force lieutenant colonel and historian William Astore makes it so vividly clear, recalling a prophesy of his own dad, that if demobilization remains our position in the tough times to come, we're going to be in deep, deep trouble.

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• SOURCE: The Atlantic
  3/30/2020
  

  The Conservative Campaign Against Safety

  by Lawrence Glickman

  How did we get to the point where ministers, the president, many Republican politicians, and a variety of media outlets are calling for people to risk death to save the economy?

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  3/30/2020
  

  No, Mr. President, Healthcare Workers Aren’t Stealing Masks. You Failed Them.

  by Deborah Levine

  We needed mass production of basic gear, because our affinity for high-tech innovation has left us with shortages.

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• SOURCE: Verso
  3/31/2020
  

  Stop Me If You Think You've Heard This One Before: A Study in the Politics and Aesthetics of English Misery

  by Owen Hatherley

  Owen Hatherley reflects on the last two UK general elections by charting the musical evolution of The Smiths.

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• SOURCE: Content Magazine
  3/31/2020
  

  The Trouble with Triscuits

  by Charles Louis Richter

  Where did the name of this popular snack come from? An exercise in historical reasoning.

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• SOURCE: LA Progressive
  3/30/2020
  

  Conservative Critics of Trump’s Coronavirus Conduct

  by Walter G. Moss

  When it comes to criticizing the behavior of Donald Trump, many of the leading conservative critics have been spot on.

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• SOURCE: The Paris Review
  3/31/2020
  

  Dorothea Lange’s Angel of History

  by Rebecca Solnit

  As is so often the case with Dorothea Lange’s photographs and maybe with nearly all photographs, the meaning of the image comes in part from beyond the frame.

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• SOURCE: Market Watch
  4/1/2020
  

  I’m A Historian Who Has Studied the Black Death. During My Coronavirus Quarantine, I Thought, ‘Will People Fear Us?’

  by Alizah Holstein

  ‘As an early COVID-19 patient in my area, I have seen firsthand the power of a community poised to help,’ writes historian Alizah Holstein.

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• SOURCE: The Chronicle of Higher Education
  3/31/2020
  

  Don’t Forget About Graduate Students

  by Nadirah Farah Foley

  Our labor sustains colleges’ educational mission. Now it’s time for universities to sustain us.

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• SOURCE: The Conversation
  3/26/2020
  

  The Fashionable History of Social Distancing

  by Einav Rabinovitch-Fox

  Historian Einav Rabinovitch-Fox discusses how clothing has promoted social distancing since the bubonic plague.

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• SOURCE: Society for U.S. Intellectual History
  3/30/2020
  

  Writing an Intellectual History of the President’s Cabinet

  by Lindsay M. Chervinsky

  Historian Lindsay M. Chervinsky discusses the methodology behind her latest book on George Washington's cabinet.

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• SOURCE: National Interest
  3/31/2020
  

  America Has a History of Pandemic Denial

  by Joseph Loconte

  Donald Trump wasn't the first president to misunderestimate a national threat. Franklin Roosevelt played his part in the collective denial and dishonesty of the age—until the "ideology of fascism" contagion came knocking.

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• SOURCE: The New Republic
  3/25/2020
  

  The Cult of the Shining City Embraces the Plague

  by Jared Yates Sexton

  Those who see Trump as a messianic figure believe the coronavirus will put a fallen world right again.