World War 2 
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SOURCE: TIME
6/3/2022
Could the US Win a Modern-Day Battle of Midway?
by Brendan Simms and Steven McGregor
With growing Chinese naval power in the Pacific, two historians consider how well the Navy could respond to a confrontation on the high seas.
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SOURCE: Places Journal
5/30/2022
Gordon Parks's Photos Show the Labor Keeping Weapons of World War II Greased
Gordon Parks's photographs showed the humanity of the workers in the nation's massive war mobilization, notably at a Pittsburgh grease plant.
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SOURCE: Smithsonian
5/24/2022
How the US Government Used Comics to Inform Americans About the Holocaust
An irony of the "Maus" controversy is that the government used the medium of comics to inform the public about the discovery of the Nazi death camps.
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SOURCE: Made By History at the Washington Post
5/22/2022
Can We Condemn One Empire Without Affirming Another?
by Moon-Ho Jung
The experience of left-wing Japanese Americans, who rejected Japanese imperialism while being oppressed by American nationalism, shows that war forces an artificial binary of national allegiance.
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SOURCE: CNN
4/29/2022
"Pachinko" Tells History of Korean Women in Mid-20th Century Japan
The Apple+ series, based in a fictionalized narrative of Korean immigration to Japan, concludes with interview footage of eight women, now all more than 90 years old, who lived this history.
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SOURCE: World Socialist Website
4/25/2022
World Socialist Website: Tim Snyder Changes Conclusions on Ukrainian Fascism
Have influential historians of Eastern European nationalism and antisemitism softened their assessment of Ukrainian nationalism because of the Russian invasion?
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SOURCE: The Conversation
4/7/2022
The Forgotten Story of the "Red Ball Express"
by Matthew Delmont
"From August through November 1944, 23,000 American truck drivers and cargo loaders – 70% of whom were Black – moved more than 400,000 tons of ammunition, gasoline, medical supplies and rations to battlefronts in France, Belgium and Germany."
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SOURCE: The Atlantic
4/4/2022
Richard Overy's New Book Tells WWII as Global History of Imperial Conflict
by Daniel Immerwahr
"Whatever else the Second World War was about, it was, on both sides, a war for empire."
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SOURCE: Fox 32
3/14/2022
Chicago's Ukrainian Community Includes Many Who Escaped WWII; They See a Repeated Nightmare
The Ukrainian community in Chicago includes many who fled either Nazi or Stalinist forces as children 80 years ago.
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SOURCE: Just Security
3/9/2022
How the Soviet Union Helped Establish the Crime of Aggressive War
by Francine Hirsch
Putin's claims to "denazify" Ukraine are an egregious affront to the historical role of the Soviet Union in establishing the Nuremberg tribunal, and its insistence in prosecuting aggressive war itself as a crime.
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SOURCE: The Conversation
3/7/2022
The History of the Holocaust Site Recently Struck by a Russian Missile
by Jeffrey Veidlinger
The memorialization of the Nazi killing field at Babi Yar near Kyiv has long been entangled with the competing versions of history favored by communists, Ukrainian and Russian nationalists, and the descendants of Jews, Roma, and other victims of wartime massacres.
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SOURCE: The Conversation
10/26/2022
Putin's Claim of Denazification in Ukraine is Absurd in Light of History
by Jeffrey Veidlinger
"Putin’s selective telling of the past exaggerates the legacy of Nazism in Ukraine while ignoring the state’s historic struggle for pluralism and democracy. There is a good reason for this: he fears democracy more than he fears Nazism."
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SOURCE: Financial Times
2/23/2022
Putin's Denial of Ukrainian Statehood Carries Dark Echoes
by Timothy Snyder
"History cannot stop a war. But it can help us, at least, to understand how one begins, which is with arrogance and lies."
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SOURCE: Harvard Crimson
2/16/2022
Harvard Law Prof Responds to Critics of His "Comfort Women" Claims, Fails to Squelch Controversy
Two Harvard historians (and several colleagues at other instituitons) say that Mark Ramseyer's defense of his article claiming Korean "comfort women" freely contracted their labor as sex workers serving Japanese soldiers during World War II ignores the substance of their criticism.
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SOURCE: Forward
2/12/2022
Was Forgetting the Holocaust a Pillar of West German Rebuilding?
Harald Jähner's book contents that the West German public's view of the nation's recent past grew darker as the years passed, but in the immediate aftermath of the war, a mood of adventurousness and liberation was widespread – at the cost of avoiding discussions of atrocity.
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2/6/2022
Art's Historical License in Netflix's "The Edge of War"
by Yoav Tenembaum
The recent Netflix film's treatment of the Munich Accords reads backwards from the outcomes of Neville Chamberlain's appeasement policy to argue, wrongly, that the Prime Minister's intent was to buy time for the British to rearm.
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1/30/2022
Richard Tregaskis Reported from "The Road to Tokyo"
by Ray E. Boomhower
War reporter Richard Tregaskis followed the success of "Guadalcanal Diary" with "The Road To Tokyo," embedded with the crew of the USS Ticonderoga and even riding on a bombing mission against the Japanese Kure Naval Arsenal in June, 1945.
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SOURCE: Jacobin
1/27/2022
Remember, too, the Victims Nazis Singled Out for their Politics
by Adam J. Sacks
A German organization dedicated to the remembrance of left-wing victims of the Nazis has had its charitable status revoked. While the history of Nazism's persecution and murder of Jews and other groups is rightly commemorated, Nazism's violence against the political left has been obscured.
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1/30/2022
Neville Chamberlain: Unsung Hero of WWII
by Luke Reader
A new Netflix film should prompt a reassessment of the legacy of British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain, who arguably succeeded in saving Britain and the European opposition to Hitler through a two-pronged strategy that used appeasement to buy time for rearmament.
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SOURCE: The Economist
1/24/2022
New Film "Munich" Offers Revised and (Somewhat) Sympathetic Portrait of Chamberlain
The film portrays Chamberlain as less weak-willed and more overconfident in his ability to secure peace.
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