Current Events that Relate to History
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AI Is an Anti-Primary Source Machine
Real voices from the past are threatened by chatbots designed to amplify — and ultimately become — the loudest voices in the room. -
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Regime Change
A coin featuring the likeness of President Trump doesn’t have many precedents in American history. The ancient Roman opponents of Julius Caesar could explain why. -
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How “History” Became Central at the Supreme Court
Originalists and historians use the past to accomplish very different tasks.
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Book ReviewA Native Weed
Is fascism an American tradition?Commonweal -
ExhibitCubana Flight 455: An Act of Aviation Terrorism 50 Years Later
A collection of the most revealing documents on an anti-Castro airplane bombing that took the lives of all the men, women, and children on board.National Security Archive -
Book ReviewJustice Alito Is Hiding the History of the Right-Wing Obsession With “History”
In his new book, Alito says that Brown v. Board was consistent originalism. This would be news to the people who created originalism.Balls And Strikes -
ProfileJohnny Cash, Prison Abolitionist
The late country singer had a far more clear-eyed understanding of the horrors of incarceration than some of today’s “leftists.”Current Affairs -
CommentThe Queer Afterlife of a Pie-in-the-Face
On Anita Bryant's 1977 pieing and the artists reimagining its politics.Pantry Theory -
CommentOn Oklahoma’s Disputed Southern Status
There are many shades of white violence, oppression, and subjugation that are deeply embedded in the core of Oklahoma identity.Scalawag -
exhibitNative Pasts
This exhibit showcases the cultural, political, and environmental histories of American Indians, from ancient civilizations to contemporary activism.