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SOURCE: Lawfare
1/22/2021
A Practical Path to Condemn and Disqualify Donald Trump
by Philip Zelikow
The standard of proof required for the Senate to bar Donald Trump from holding office under Section 3 of the 14th Amendment only demands that Trump gave aid and comfort to enemies of the Constitution, not that he participated in an insurrection. As his own words demonstrate that he did, this path should be followed.
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SOURCE: The Conversation
1/25/2020
Strange Costumes of Capitol Rioters Echo the Early Days of the Ku Klux Klan - Before the White Sheets
by Kenneth Ladenburg
"Although costumes cannot tell us the entire story of a group or movement, they can provide a window into understanding how the groups and movements form and how their ideologies are spread."
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SOURCE: Age of Revolutions
1/22/2021
4 Cautionary Tales from the French Revolution
by Christine Adams
A historian of revolutionary France argues that the period presents cautions about the prevalence of disinformation, the potential of rhetoric to incite, the folly of blaming singular figures for broad trends and movements, and the cynicism that flows from efforts to undermine the legitimacy of democratic institutions.
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SOURCE: Perspectives on History
1/22/2021
Please Stop Calling Things Archives: An Archivist's Plea
by B.M. Watson
"As many historians currently use the word “archives,” they seem to imply that an archive is the natural state in which primary sources arrange themselves after being discarded or left by their creators."
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SOURCE: ROAR
1/23/2021
Anything is Possible: Toward an Abolitionist Vision
by Marc Lamont Hill
Abolitionism is about more than dismantling prisons. It is also about building a world with universal access to safety, self-determination, freedom and dignity.
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SOURCE: Blue Book Diaries
1/23/2021
“Many Students Are Now Taught in School to Hate Their Own Country”
by Jonathan Wilson
The biggest problem with the "1776 Commission" report is its broad and unfounded assumptions about how students actually respond to history classes. The report never asks if students might love America more because it has moved on from the 18th century, because its purpose is ideological grievance, not effective teaching.
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SOURCE: Perspectives on History
1/26/2021
Diversity Demands Struggle: Lessons from Lawrence Reddick’s Crusade for Black History
by David A. Varel
After working to build the field of Black history at the margins of academe in the middle of the 20th Century, Lawrence Reddick fought against the perception that a wave of white scholars who took up African American history after the civil rights movement were founders of the field.
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SOURCE: Public Books
1/25/2021
J. M. Keynes and the Visible Hands
by Kent Puckett
John Maynard Keynes's disgust at the outcome of the peace negotiations at the end of the Great War led him to write a scathing and influential book about the economic impact of the Treaty of Versailles. Unfortunately, the account, which overstated the economic devastation imposed on Germany, fueled Hitler's propaganda and made the rest of Europe unable to perceive the threat of German rearmament.
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SOURCE: Black Perspectives
1/27/2021
What Julian Bond Taught Me About Politics and Power
by Jeanne Theoharis
A student of Congressman Julian Bond and a biographer of Rosa Parks, Jeanne Theoharis describes how those two figures demonstrated the real political story behind the mythologized civil rights movement.
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SOURCE: New York Times
1/26/2021
Trump Began With His ‘Great’ Wall. He Ended With It, Too
by Geraldo Cadava
His legacy will be the divisions he has sown between Americans.
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SOURCE: New York Times
1/27/2021
Lives Derailed: Notes from Migration Encounters
by Anita Isaacs and Anne Preston
"The contributions of immigrants, and the human toll of anti-immigrant policies should take center stage as we renew our national conversation on immigration."
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SOURCE: Perspectives on History
1/27/2021
Racist Histories and the AHA
by Sarah Jones Weicksel and James Grossman
"By undertaking this project, the AHA seeks to understand and document the complexity of its role in the evolution and persistence of American racism in order for the organization, and for historians, to use our knowledge and professional resources to chart pathways to a more just and equitable future."
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SOURCE: The Conversation
1/25/2021
Trump Impeachment After Leaving Office is Nothing – in 9th-Century Rome they Put a Pope’s Corpse on Trial
by Frederik Pedersen
A church synod in Rome in 897 AD tried Pope Formosus for transgressing the customs of the papacy. This required exhuming his corpse as he had been dead for seven months, and resulted in cutting off three fingers from the right hand and throwing the rest into the Tiber.
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SOURCE: Africa Is A Country
1/20/2021
Reflections On An Imploding Empire
by Russell Rickford
Progressive dissidents must meet the moment of Biden's inauguration by not settling for what liberal politicians offer on economic justice, human rights, environment, labor, and health.
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SOURCE: Forbes
The Biden Administration Could Usher In A New Era Of Teaching American History
by Daina Ramey Berry
The change in presidential administrations offers a chance to introduce leadership, guidance and accountability to states for teaching comprehensive and inclusive American history. Biden's disbanding of the 1776 Commission should be seen as only a first step.
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SOURCE: The Bulwark
1/22/2021
The Origins of Trump’s Slapdash, Last-Second ‘1776 Report’
by Joshua Tait
Putting the "1776 Commission" report into context requires understanding that it's not just a "conservative" project, but a product of a movement to define the United States as the realization of classical and Biblical civilization imperiled by relativism and multiculturalism.
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SOURCE: Salon
1/23/2021
Trumpism isn't "History": But our Blindness to History Could Lead to its Comeback
by Jim Sleeper
"Trump couldn't have conned as many of us as he did if our schools had taught more of us about this country's dalliances with demagogues like Huey Long and Joe McCarthy."
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SOURCE: Wall Street Journal
1/22/2021
Yes, the Senate Can Try Trump
by Keith E. Whittington
The debates at the constitutional convention over the impeachment power don't give any suggestion that that power would be limited to current government officials.
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SOURCE: Made By History at the Washington Post
1/22/2020
Even Forgiving Student Loans Won’t Solve The Higher Education Funding Crisis
by Elizabeth Tandy Shermer
The federal student loan system has always been a smokescreen for government's failure to support higher education as a public good.
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SOURCE: Chronicle of Higher Education
1/19/2021
The Dying Art of Political Persuasion
by David Bromwich
"The work of changing people’s minds may succeed best when it recalls the affinity of political argument with morals and manners that have become second nature."