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How We Told the Ongoing Story of Title IX
Laura Mogulescu
A curator and her team chose to center the work of activists who pushed to determine the scope and meaning of Title IX's prohibition on sex discrimination in education throughout the law's 50-year history. Their exhibit is now open at the New-York Historical Society.
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Excerpt: Inside the Gwangju Uprising, a Key Moment for South Korean Democracy
Gwangju Democratization Movement Commemoration Committee
Government forces sprung into action to violently suppress a pro-democracy protest of students and workers in Gwangju, South Korea on May 18, 1980.
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California Isn't a Liberal Sanctuary where Asian Americans are Concerned
Hao Huang
Anti-Chinese racism and violence has always been part of the nightmare underside of the California dream.
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Samuel Eliot Morison's 1950 Address Still Has Lessons About Subjectivity (Though Not All He Intended)
Bruce Dearstyne
Addressing the AHA in 1950, Morison made a case that historians' authority depended on their detachment from the political controversies and cultural trends of their day; the advice can be valuable today if we also recognize Morison himself practiced it imperfectly.
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Historians on the Mainstreaming of the "Great Replacement" Myth
HNN Staff
This conspiratorial claim of a plot by elites to replace whites with nonwhite and immigrant voters has moved from the far-right fringe to cable news and appears to have played a part in the radicalization of several mass shooters. Historians discuss what it is and what it means.
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The Roundup Top Ten for May 20, 2022
The top opinion writing by historians and about history from around the web this week.
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Leaked Draft of SCOTUS Abortion Decision Rejects Roe, Tees Up Obergefell, Griswold, Lawrence
HNN Staff
Samuel Alito's leaked decision heavily invokes history to argue that rights based on personal privacy have no place in the American cultural or legal tradition. Historians weigh in.
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The Dangerous Trend of Imperial Nostalgia – It's not Just Russia
Lawrence Wittner
The embrace of the belief that nations are entitled to reclaim their past dominance underlies Russia's invasion of Ukraine but also is influencing the politics of Britain, France, China, and the United States. A renewed commitment to international cooperation is needed to thwart this dangerous turn.
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Confronting the Erasure of Native Americans in Early American Towns and Cities
Edward Rafferty
Colin Calloway's book explores the presence of Native Americans in early American towns and cities, demolishing the longstanding myth that they vanished with the wilderness and highlighting indigenous critiques of the settler society.
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How Will History Remember Xi?
Robert Brent Toplin
Despite China's growth as an economic and military force, Xi Jinping's authoritarian government may ultimately be seen as a drag on the nation's prosperity and the flourishing of the Chinese population.
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Thoughts From the Zoo
Steve Hochstadt
What does the term "pro-life" mean in the context of humanity's relationship to other living things and the planet?
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Reigniting a Nuclear Arms Race is the Wrong Take-Home from Ukraine
David P. Barash
A simplistic assumption of nuclear deterrence – that having nuclear weapons protects a nation against aggression – has frequently failed in practice. The Ukraine invasion should be a call to rethink deterrence and move toward abolishing nuclear weapons.
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The Roundup Top Ten for May 6, 2022
The top opinion writing by historians and about history from around the web this week.
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High Crimes and Lingering Consequences: How Land Sale Contracts Looted Black Wealth and Gutted Chicago Communities
Tiff Beatty
Chicago artist Tonika Lewis Johnson is creating public installations documenting properties where Black residents were subjected to predatory contract home sales, and connecting the past to the present struggles of the city's south and west sides.
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Leaked Draft of SCOTUS Abortion Decision Rejects Roe, Tees Up Obergefell, Griswold, Lawrence
HNN Staff
Samuel Alito's leaked decision heavily invokes history to argue that rights based on personal privacy have no place in the American cultural or legal tradition. Historians weigh in.
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When Will the French Dam Against the Far Right Crack?
Brian Sandberg
Macron is the latest representative of the French center to call for an electoral coalition to act as a "dam" against the far right. In another French presidential election, the dam has held, but will it endure?
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A Century After the First Insulin Injection, It's Time to Make Sure It's Affordable
Martin Abrahamson and Sanjiv Chopra
The US Senate has the opportunity to honor the legacy of the doctors who pioneered insulin treatment by making sure that everyone who needs this life-saving medicine can afford it.
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Democracy's Enemies are Abroad, but Also at Home
Jim Sleeper
If neoconservative warnings of a coming global struggle between Russia and "the West" are right, the west must consider what changes it is willing to make to allow for a victory without planetery catastrophe.
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Ukraine Evokes Past "Eve of Destruction"
Richard Aquila
In 1960s America, popular songs gradually roused the conscience of many Americans against the war in Vietnam. What forces might make Russia (as well as Ukraine and the west) push away from the brink of unthinkable acts mass destruction?
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1968: A Year of Dashed Hopes
Walter G. Moss
While people seek to confront life's challenges with hope and courage and banish fear and doubt, some years, like 1968, don't make that easy.
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Recent Violence Shows the Need to Teach More Asian American History
Alan J. Singer
The targeting of Asian Americans for violence and harassment shows the need to teach more of the history of Asian ethnic groups and acknowlege legacies of exclusion and discrimination.
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The Roundup Top Ten for April 29, 2022
The top opinion writing by historians and about history from around the web this week.
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