Roundup

This page features brief excerpts of stories published by the mainstream media and, less frequently, blogs, alternative media, and even obviously biased sources. The excerpts are taken directly from the websites cited in each source note. Quotation marks are not used.

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• SOURCE: Common Dreams
  1/26/20
  

  Ten Years After Howard Zinn’s Death — Lessons from the People’s Historian

  by Bill Bigelow 

  Now is an especially good time to remember some of Howard Zinn’s wisdom.

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• SOURCE: The Salt Lake Tribune
  1/26/20
  

  Ike deserves more credit for bringing down McCarthy

  by Dennis Lythgoe

  “The best treatment of McCarthy is to ignore him. That is one thing he cannot stand.”

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• SOURCE: Boston Review
  1/26/20
  

  Missing Zinn

  by Cornel West an Mordecai Lyon

  On the tenth anniversary of radical historian Howard Zinn’s death, Cornel West opens up about their friendship and what Zinn would have made of the decade—including whether he would have voted for Bernie.

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• SOURCE: NY Times
  1/24/20
  

  Scandalize! Minimize! Repeat as Necessary

  by Nicole Hemmer

  Right-wing media have been laying the groundwork for Trump’s acquittal for half a century.

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• SOURCE: ArtNet
  1/24/20
  

  How the National Archives’ Notorious Alteration of a Women’s March Photo Is Part of a Long American Tradition

  by Jennifer Tucker & Peter Rutland

  Two professors explain how the image fits into the history of a country that has long sought to avoid discomfort.

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• SOURCE: ArtNet
  1/24/20
  

  How the National Archives’ Notorious Alteration of a Women’s March Photo Is Part of a Long American Tradition

  by Jennifer Tucker & Peter Rutland

  Two professors explain how the image fits into the history of a country that has long sought to avoid discomfort.

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• 1/24/20
  

  Roundup Top 10!

  This week's broad sampling of opinion pieces found on the Internet, as selected by the editor of HNN.

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• SOURCE: Politico
  1/22/20
  

  Why No GOP Senator Will Stand Up to Trump

  by Garrett M. Graff

  Barry Goldwater had the power to tell Nixon it was all over. But don’t expect a repeat this time.

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• SOURCE: LA Times
  1/19/20
  

  California’s forgotten slave history

  by Sarah Barringer Gordon and Kevin Waite

  San Bernardino’s early success rested on a pair of seemingly incongruous forces: Mormonism and slavery.

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• SOURCE: USA Today
  1/23/20
  

  Impeachment: Republicans are in the tank for Trump, but Democrats aren't impartial, either

  by Jonathan Zimmerman

  As of right now, I think Trump should be removed. But I must keep my mind open to new arguments and evidence, instead of closing myself off before we have heard them. 

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• SOURCE: Tom Dispatch
  1/23/20
  

  The American Chaos Machine: U.S. Foreign Policy Goes Off the Rails

  by Danny Sjursen

  President Trump’s rash, risky, and repugnant decision to assassinate Iranian Major General Qassem Suleimani on the sovereign soil of Iraq was only the latest version of what has proven to be a pervasive state of affairs.

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• SOURCE: The Conversation
  1/16/20
  

  Universities must open their archives and share their oppressive pasts

  by Evadne Kelly and Carla Rice

  The archives of academic institutions can tell previously untold stories of eugenics. Universities can begin to undo oppressive legacies by opening them to artists and communities.

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• SOURCE: NY Times
  1/17/20
  

  The Injustice of This Moment Is Not an ‘Aberration’

  by Michelle Alexander

  From mass incarceration to mass deportation, our nation remains in deep denial.

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• SOURCE: The Washington Post
  1/17/20
  

  Can Historical Analysis Help Reduce Military Deaths By Suicide?

  by Jeffrey Smith, Michael Doidge, Ryan Hanoa, and B. Christopher Frueh

  A longer look reveals interesting patterns and may clarify what is driving a rise in suicides.

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• SOURCE: The Washington Post
  1/22/20
  

  What Antiabortion Advocates Get Wrong About The Women Who Secured The Right to Vote

  by Reva Siegel and Stacie Taranto

  The most famous suffragists largely weren’t antiabortion and wanted women to have more control over their bodies.

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• SOURCE: Black Perspectives
  1/21/20
  

  Charlotta Bass for Vice-President: America’s Two-Parties and the Black Vote

  by Denise Lynn

  Bass, an influential political activist, ran for Vice-President on the Progressive Party ticket in 1948. Her campaign demonstrated some of the shifting loyalties of Black voters and the failure of both political parties to address the needs of the Black community.

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• SOURCE: The New York Times
  1/21/20
  

  The Road to Auschwitz Wasn't Paved With Indifference

  by Rivka Weinberg

  We don’t have to be ‘upstanders’ to avoid genocides. We just have to make sure not to help them along.

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  1/16/20
  

  The battle for Notre Dame

  by Philip Kennicott and Aaron Steckelberg

  As the cathedral rises from the ashes, a tug of war over its transformation and history. 

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• SOURCE: The New York Times
  1/22/20
  

  The Myth of Middle-Class Liberalism

  by David Motadel

  The bourgeois are supposed to ensure open, democratic societies. In fact, they rarely have.

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• SOURCE: Comedy Central
  1/20/20
  

  Video of the Week: Historian Mary Frances Berry on Martin Luther King and the Power of Protest

  Historian Mary Frances Berry discusses misconceptions about Martin Luther King, Jr., the essential role of protests in politics and her book "History Teaches Us to Resist."