Roundup

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• 2/28/2020
  

  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: NY Times
  2/25/20
  

  Why Religion Is the Best Hope Against Trump

  by Jon Meacham

  Evangelicals may support an amoral president. But faith can still offer hope for liberation and progress.

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  2/25/20
  

  Katherine Johnson should also be remembered for desegregating higher education

  by Crystal R. Sanders

  The mathematician’s experience showed how valuable diversity can be for inspiring scientific progress.

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• SOURCE: Perspectives on History
  2/26/20
  

  History by Text and Thing

  by ShawnaKim Lowey-Ball

  For researchers, history is a thing we do. It is an activity, a handling of old books, a building seen from the vantage point of its past. 

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  2/24/20
  

  Historians Must Contextualize the Election For Voters

  by Joanne B. Freeman

  Historian Joanne B. Freeman explains why this information is crucial for getting the election right.

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  2/25/20
  

  The rising panic over coronavirus is likely to make containing it harder

  by Danielle B. Wetmore

  Panics spread misinformation that make crafting sound medical solutions more difficult, while fueling bigotry.

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• SOURCE: NY Times
  2/21/20
  

  Where Might Trumpism Take Us?

  by Jamelle Bouie

  For analogies that show us where the nation might be headed, look close to home.

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• SOURCE: NCBI
  Accessed 2/26/20
  

  The History of the Impact of Globalization on Infectious Disease Emergence and Control

  The current era of globalization is more properly viewed as an intensification of trends that have occurred throughout history. 

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• SOURCE: Letters from an American
  2/23/20
  

  Has America Ever Been in Such a Crisis Before? Yes, Three Times

  by Heather Cox Richardson

  A lot of folks have been asking me lately if America has ever been in such a crisis before and, if so, what people in the past did to save democracy. The answer to the first question is yes, it has, three times.

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• SOURCE: New York Daily News
  2/24/20
  

  Sanders, Bloomberg, and the threat of anti-Semitism

  by Jonathan Zimmerman

  If history is any judge, the Bloomberg and Sanders candidacies will be catnip to anti-Semites of every creed and color.

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• SOURCE: Tom Dispatch
  2/23/20
  

  How “Historic” Are We? Going Off-Script in the Age of Trump

  by Andrew Bacevich

  Truth to tell, the word historic does get tossed around rather loosely these days. Just about anything that happens at the White House, for example, is deemed historic. 

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• SOURCE: Journal of the Civil War Era
  2/21/20
  

  How to Build a Winning Coalition: What Today's Democrats Can Learn from Pennsylvania's Republicans in 1860

  by Daniel W. Crofts

  The Republican Party’s rise to power between 1854 and 1860 contains lessons that remain pertinent.

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• SOURCE: Tom Dispatch
  2/25/20
  

  The Paradox of America’s Endless Wars

  by William Astore

  They Persist Because They Don’t Exist (For Americans) 

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• SOURCE: Salon
  2/22/20
  

  What Pete Buttigieg gets wrong about Bernie Sanders and the Democratic Party

  by Jim Sleeper

  Bernie Sanders isn't going to "burn the party down" — Democrats did that to themselves years ago.

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• 2/21/20
  

  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: CNN
  2/18/20
  

  A museum of women's history is long overdue -- and so are many others

  by Thomas A. Foster

  As we work to recover histories of marginalized people and subjects for a more inclusive national history presented in our museums, we must also change how the Grand Narrative is told in a museum that purports to cover all of American history. 

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• SOURCE: NY Times
  2/19/29
  

  Seeing Black History in Context

  by Erin Aubry Kaplan

  It’s the perfect time to get real about America’s shortcomings.

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  2/14/20
  

  Utah women had the right to vote long before others — and then had it taken away

  by Katherine Kitterman

  As we remember the 19th Amendment, we shouldn’t forget what came before it.

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  2/17/20
  

  Eugenics is trending. That’s a problem.

  by Caitlin Fendley

  Any effort to slow population growth must center on reproductive justice.

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  2/17/20
  

  Pete Buttigieg’s race problem

  by Tyler D. Parry

  He doesn’t truly understand the problems plaguing black America and their racist roots.