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SOURCE: The Bulwark
1/27/2023
Kids Could Teach Republican Pols a Lesson About Handling the Harsh Truth
by Margaret McMullan
"Decades after she first walked into Little Rock Central High, Elizabeth Eckford said, 'True reconciliation can occur only when we honestly acknowledge our painful, but shared past'."
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SOURCE: TomDispatch
1/29/2023
The Real Failures of January 6
by Karen J. Greenberg
Despite surface similarities, the attack on Brazil's government buildings earlier this month differed from January 6, 2021 in one key respect: the transfer of presidential power had already been accomplished. The contrast is sobering—for America.
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SOURCE: The Guardian
1/28/2023
The Police Killing of Tyre Nichols Was Heinous, but not an Aberration
by Simon Balto
Americans must not continue to presume that violent incidents are external to the basic role and function of policing in society.
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SOURCE: The Guardian
1/30/2023
Regina Twala's Stolen Life Work Highlights Colonialism Inside the Historical Profession
by Joel Cabrita
Regina Twala performed the intellectual labor that supported another intellectual's published work on African religious practices; her obscurity was the foundation of his fame.
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SOURCE: Chronicle of Higher Education
1/30/2023
Fear of a Black Studies Planet
by Roderick A. Ferguson
A scholar whose work was named in Florida's decision not to support the AP African American Studies course discusses a long history of conservative efforts to control textbooks and teaching and, failing that, to create politically useful hysteria about indoctrination.
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1/27/2023
The Roundup Top Ten for January 27, 2023
The top opinion writing by historians and about history from around the web this week.
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SOURCE: The Conversation
1/24/2023
Some Escaped Slavery Without Escaping the South
by Viola Franziska Müller
The majority of people escaping slavery before Emancipation never crossed the Mason-Dixon line, finding a measure of freedom in southern cities.
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SOURCE: The Baffler
1/24/2023
Bolsonaro's Long Shadow
by Nara Roberta Silva
The recently departed president is only the latest, and probably not the last, avatar of antidemocratic impulses in Brazilian politics, generally reflected by the elite recruiting the anxieties of the middle class to thwart broader social rights for the nation's poor.
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SOURCE: The New Yorker
1/23/2023
Nobody Has My Condition But Me
by Beverly Gage
Presenting with unusual autoimmune symptoms tied to a thus-far unique genetic mutation placed a reseacher and biographer on the other side of being studied.
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SOURCE: Made By History at the Washington Post
1/23/2023
Miami-Dade has Lurched Right, but Still Loves "Obamacare"
by Catherine Mas
Even though conservative Latinos in Miami are generally suspicious of "socialism", the long history of local government support for medical access means that many carve out a big exception for the Affordable Care Act.
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SOURCE: TIME
1/21/2023
What My Mother's Activism Before Roe Shows Us about the Upcoming Fights after Dobbs
by Felicia Kornbluh
"The first thing we’ve missed about Roe is that it was merely the final scene in a drama whose origins lay far from the U.S. Supreme Court... a movement that resembled the movement for abortion rights today, centered on policy change in individual states and localities."
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SOURCE: Inquest
1/24/2023
Family Histories where Black Power Met Police Power
by Dan Berger
Fighting back against mass incarceration today means learning from the stories of Black Power activists who fought against the expansion of police power and surveillance since the 1960s.
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SOURCE: Inside Higher Ed
1/24/2023
College Faculty: After K-12, Curriculum Laws are Coming For You
by James Grossman and Jeremy C. Young
State colleges involved with concurrent enrollment programs that allow high school students to take classes for credit are already susceptible to laws purporting to fight "indoctrination" in the secondary school curriculum. More intrusions on academic freedom are coming.
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SOURCE: The Conversation
1/25/2023
Atlanta's BeltLine Project a Case Study in Park-Driven "Green Gentrification"
by Dan Immergluck
Although the ambitious combination of multiuse trails and apartment complexes "was designed to connect Atlantans and improve their quality of life, it has driven up housing costs on nearby land and pushed low-income households out to suburbs with fewer services than downtown neighborhoods."
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SOURCE: Nursing Clio
1/26/2023
Margaret Bingham Stillwell, Women Archivists, and the Problem of Archival Inclusivity
by Amanda E. Strauss and Karin Wulf
Two scholars who are the first women leaders of their institutions reflect on the ongoing lessons of a pioneering woman archivist and rare books librarian for understanding how archival practices can be made to include or exclude.
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SOURCE: Inside Higher Ed
1/25/2023
Beyond Mythbusting, What Should Historians Tell the Public?
by Steven Mintz
The success of the new "Myth America" collection shows a public appetite for confronting historical myths, but historians have to offer the public more than debunking.
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SOURCE: La Voz
1/15/2023
The History of Mexican Americans in Austin
by Cynthia E. Orozco
A historian works to develop a chronicle of Mexican American community events in the city of Austin with a local community newspaper.
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SOURCE: Chronicle of Higher Education
1/18/2023
Why I'm Not Afraid of ChatGPT
by Christopher Grobe
The limits of AI writing technology present writing teachers the opportunity to show students how to demand more of their writing than the bots can possibly provide.
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SOURCE: Slate
1/21/2023
Why do Republicans Keep Calling it the "Democrat Party"?
by Lawrence B. Glickman
The odd rhetorical device isn't just trolling—it reflects 70 years of the Republican Party seeking to define itself against the opposition even as terms like "liberal" and "conservatism" had not yet taken on stable meaning.
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SOURCE: Made By History at the Washington Post
1/24/2023
McCarthy Kicking Dems off Key Committees Isn't Just Retaliation, it's Enabling the GOP Agenda
by Josh Kluever
McCarthy's use of "anti-American" in his rhetorical objections to particular Democrats suggests he wants to eliminate prominent Democrats from positions where they can object to Republican policies in House committees and police the boundaries of acceptable political opinion.
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