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• ‘Return to the Reich’ Review: Refugee Redux

  The true story of a Jewish boy from Freiburg who escaped Nazi Germany only to return as an American commando on a secret mission.

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• 10/13/19
  

  Rethinking Polygamy: An Interview with Sarah M.S. Pearsall

  by Kyla Sommers

  "Polygamy controversies place us amid major events in early America because such clashes were about the organization and governance not just of house- holds but of societies, nations, and empires.”

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• 10/13/19
  

  The Original War on Terror

  by Eric Laursen

  A review of Nunzio Pernicone and Fraser M. Ottanelli, Assassins against the Old Order: Italian Anarchist Violence in Fin de Siècle Europe.

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• 10/13/19
  

  The United States is Not a Healthy Democracy: An Interview with Richard C. Lyons

  by Andrew Fletcher and Jonathan Montano

  "Power is aggregating away from the people’s representative assemblies of house and senate and into the executive branches myriad agencies and into the judicial branch."

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• 10/6/19
  

  Holly Jackson on the History Lessons of American Radicals

  by HNN Staff

  "As we grapple with the deep roots and long aftermath of colonialism, slavery, capitalist exploitation, it’s important to know that there was always profound opposition to those forces as well."

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• 9/29/19
  

  Myth vs History: A Study of Vietnam War Stories and Journalism

  by Jerry Lembcke 

  Australia’s Vietnam by Mark Dapin is important for the rectification it brings to public memory of Vietnam War homecomings.

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• 9/29/19
  

  The Sexual Assault and Exploitation of Enslaved Men in America

  by Thomas A. Foster

  Sexual assault of enslaved men occurred systematically and in a wide variety of forms. 

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• 9/22/19
  

  A Family History of the Red Scare

  by David L. O'Connor

  A review of David Maraniss' A Good American Family: My Father and the Red Scare.

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• SOURCE: Smithsonian Magazine
  Accessed 9/19/19
  

  Women Scientists Were Written Out of History. It’s Margaret Rossiter’s Lifelong Mission to Fix That

  The historian has devoted her career to bringing to light the ingenious accomplishments of those who have been forgotten.

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• SOURCE: Washington Monthly
  Accessed 9/19/19
  

  Allen C. Guelzo Reviews Sidney Blumenthal's Latest Installment of His Biography of Lincoln

  by Allen C. Guelzo

  "Blumenthal never allows the intensity of Lincoln’s story to flag for a moment."

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• SOURCE: NY Times
  9/18/19
  

  What Reconstruction-Era Laws Can Teach Our Democracy: The NY Times Reviews Eric Foner's Latest Book

  by Lincoln Caplan

  “The Second Founding” reflects Foner’s rigorously researched, now mainstream view that Reconstruction was “a massive experiment in interracial democracy."

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• SOURCE: New Books Network
  9/9/19
  

  Habeas Corpus in Wartime: Derek Litvak Interviews Amanda L. Tyler

  by Derek Litvak

  Habeas Corpus in Wartime is a comprehensive history of the writ of habeas corpus in Anglo-America.

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  9/5/19
  

  Laure Adler and Camille Viéville's new book rewrites art history to include women

  A review of  “The Trouble with Women Artists." 

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• 9/8/19
  

  A Nation Headed to Civil War: The Compromise of 1850

  by Sidney Blumenthal

  An excerpt from ALL THE POWERS OF EARTH by Sidney Blumenthal.

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• 9/8/19
  

  Sir Ian Kershaw on His Latest Book, Brexit, and the Future of Europe

  by David O’Connor

  "The EU has come a long way and, as Brexit shows, the networks built up over previous decades are extremely complex."

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• SOURCE: Not Even Past
  9/4/19
  

  Reviewing Dispossessed Lives: Enslaved Women, Violence, and the Archive by Marisa Fuentes (2016)

  by Tiana Wilson

  Fuentes’ work contributes to the historical knowledge of early America through her focus on violence and how it operated during slavery and continues today through archives. 

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• SOURCE: University of Arkansas News
  9/4/19
  

  Historian Caree Banton Publishes New Book on Race and Identity in Atlantic World

  Banton closely examines the Afro-Barbadians and provides a transatlantic approach to understanding the political and sociocultural consequences of their migration and settlement in Africa.

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• SOURCE: NY Times
  9/4/19
  

  When Henrietta Wood Won Reparations in 1878

  by W. Caleb McDaniel

  She sued the man who had kidnapped her into slavery for damages and lost wages, offering lessons for today’s debate.

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• SOURCE: AP
  9/1/19
  

  Jeffrey Ostler's "Surviving Genocide" argues that the emergence of American democracy depended on the taking of Native lands

  The book comes as scholars and writers are challenging narratives around American history and how it hurt people of color.

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• SOURCE: CBC News
  8/24/19
  

  How do you measure a woman's pain? Historian Whitney Wood aims to find out

  Medical historian Whitney Wood is the new Canada Research Chair at Nanaimo's Vancouver Island University.