Truth and Reconciliation

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• 10/20/2020
  

  Will We Need a Truth and Reconciliation Commission for the Trump Years?

  Jill Lepore's recent op ed suggests that the real fight is to preserve documentary evidence for future historians to render judgment on Trump. That view is not universally shared among historians. 

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• SOURCE: Vox
  10/5/2020
  

  The German Model for America

  West German society intially sought to repress evidence of the Holocaust and Nazi crimes, preserving a myth that German civilians were also victims. The work of owning up to those crimes took decades and encountered bitter resistance. 

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• 9/20/2020
  

  Unlike the Germans We Have Failed to Recognize and Atone for Our Holocausts

  by Walter G. Moss

  Reconciling America's racial divisions requires honest reckoning with the past, and teaching history as a search for the truth, not an effort to inclulcate patriotism, placate parents, or pander to censorious textbook commissions.

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• 9/13/2020
  

  How an American TV Mini-Series Helped the Germans Acknowledge the Holocaust

  by Robert Brent Toplin

  An American television minseries overcame initial skepticism by German authorities to rouse public conscience about the Holocaust and the complicity of ordinary Germans with persecution and genocide. Americans hesitant toward "political" popular culture should consider its contributions to truth and reconciliation.

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• SOURCE: New York Times
  7/30/2020
  

  The Reconciliation Must Be Televised

  by Wesley Morris

  The United States has flirted with truth and reconciliation. But it abandoned Reconstruction and failed to act on the warnings of the 1968 Kerner Commission. Most of all, these failures reflect the vain hope that overcoming the country's racist past can be done quickly. 

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  3/13/2020
  

  A White Republican Mayor Seeks the Truth about Tulsa’s Race Massacre a Century Ago

  Bynum, a white Republican in deeply red Oklahoma, said he would not back down from trying to find answers to what happened.

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• SOURCE: Salon
  3/17/2020
  

  Historian David Perry: After Trump, We'll Need a Truth and Reconciliation Commission

  A Truth and Reconciliation commission would be a necessary first step in documenting the Trump regime's crimes and assaults on truth, reality and America's collective memory.