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Historians on the Ukraine Invasion
Historians weigh in on the unfolding crisis as bombs fall on Ukrainian cities and Russian troops advance.
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Ghosts in the Mirror: France's Crusade Against Former Nazis in the Algerian Insurgency
Danny Orbach
Nazi fugitives and mercenaries took on an outsize significance in the strategic imaginations of both French and West German governments and intelligence agencies in the Cold War; they were most influential not through their actions but through distorting government policy through these delusions of power.
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Remember Blowback over Belgium: Will Putin Lose the War of Image?
Robert Brent Toplin
The potential for global media attention to the atrocities that will result from a Russian occupation of Ukraine should give Putin pause to reconsider the cost of military victory.
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Understanding Putin's Historical Vision of Ukraine is the Necessary Foundation of Diplomacy
Walter G. Moss
It's not necessary to accept Putin's nationalistic claims of historical unity between Russia and Ukraine, but it is necessary to understand them as the basis of Russian actions.
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Bridget the Grocer and the First American Kennedys
Neal Thompson
The history of the Irish immigrant Kennedys has long focused on its prominent men. A new book looks to JFK's grandmother Bridget Murphy Kennedy as the foundation of the family and a neglected figure for understanding immigration, urban life, and the changing of American politics.
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Irwin Gellman Asks: Did JFK Steal Victory in the "Campaign of the Century"?
Justin P. Coffey
Irwin Gellman's latest volume in his political history of Nixon argues the 1960 election returns in Illinois and Texas were rigged for Kennedy. A reviewer finds the case is intriguing but falls short of solid proof, though it does resonate with charges of stolen elections and media favoritism that are all too familiar today.
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Excerpt: Gee Brown and Firestone's Liberian Empire of Rubber
Gregg Mitman
The African American intellectual Gee Brown confronts the brutality of Firestone's rubber plantation empire in Liberia in an excerpt from a new history of the company.
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Time is Short and the Tests are Stern for the Biden Presidency
Simon Serfaty
After his election on the promise of a restoration of normalcy, international events have been particularly unfavorable to Joe Biden. Fair or not, his political survival hinges on resolving a set of crises with no time to spare.
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The Roundup Top Ten for February 25, 2022
The top opinion writing by historians and about history from around the web this week.
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Ugly Echoes of Historical Miscegenation Panic in Federal Trial of Arbery's Killers
Elise Lemire
Text messages revealed in the federal trial of Ahmaud Arbery's killers reveal a potent fear of interracial sexuality that has long shadowed conflicts over power in American society.
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The Revolution Whisperer
Greg Shaw
The author hoped to write a biography of William Small, the Scottish polymath whose mentorship linked the political revolution of Thomas Jefferson and the industrial one of James Watt. Learning that another researcher had beaten him to the punch didn't diminish the author's admiration for the story in the least.
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Lessons from the History Textbook Wars of the 1920s
Bruce W. Dearstyne
Historians helped defuse a national tempest over allegedly unpatriotic textbooks in the 1920s by explaining the nature of professional historical research, interpretation, and dissemination, and insisting on the right and duty of professionals to exert expertise. That kind of work is needed again today.
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Martin Indyk Writes the Palestinians Out of the History of Kissinger's Middle East Diplomacy
James R. Stocker
Martin Indyk’s new work offers a vivid portrait of the former Secretary of State’s Arab-Israeli diplomacy, but he completely misses one of the most important parts of this policy – the Palestinians.
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Malverne: The Incomplete Struggle for School Integration on Long Island
Alan J. Singer
The general diversity of Long Island should be the area's strength. It's time to learn lessons from the past and stop allowing the area to be carved up into small and segregated school districts.
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Why the Short and Rebellious Life of Stephen Crane Still Matters
Linda H. Davis
Though he quickly became a model of literary celebrity of the sort we would recognize today, Stephen Crane's more crucial legacy is of the pursuit of truth without regard to consequence.
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The Strangely Fettable Burial Place of Henry VIII
Emma Levitt
Though the monarch's grandiose plans for his own tomb were never fulfilled, they reveal much about Henry VIII's ideas of power and masculinity, and pose an ironic contrast to the austere slab that marks his resting place today.
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The Roundup Top Ten for February 18, 2022
The top opinion writing by historians and about history from around the web this week.
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The Gilded Age's Original "Galentine's Day"
Anya Jabour
The search for alternatives to the compulsory heterosexual coupledom of Valentine's Day could learn from the example of the "Perfect Little Ladies" of 1890s Rochester, New York.
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The Anti-Valentine: "Dear John" in Military Culture
Susan Carruthers
The cultural phenomenon of the "Dear John" letter illustrates how wartime has created occasion for the policing of gendered norms of faithfulness and forbearance, as well as a script for breaking them.
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New York Survived the 1832 Cholera Epidemic
Daniel S. Levy
The 1832 Cholera epidemic roiled New York, terrorizing the city across lines of class and neighborhood. Today, the city's resilience can be a source of encouragement, but also a caution that today's pandemic won't be the last.
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Anyone for Existential Torment this Valentine's Day?
Barbara H. Rosenwein
From ancient Greece to the Romantic period, philosophers and artists have endorsed an idea of love that was closer to torture than to the anodyne sentiments of contemporary Valentines.
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A Tale of Two Olympics: Changed China in a Changed World
Joe Renouard
Since the 2008 Beijing games, the People's Republic of China's vastly increased global economic power and the COVID pandemic have changed the core narrative around the current winter games. It remains to be seen whether the Olympics will signal a turn back to openness or the intransigence of a confident world power.
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What Major Religious Traditions Say about a Democratic World Federation
David C. Oughton
Valentine's Day has become a secular American celebration of romantic love, but it can be an occasion to consider religious traditions of love involving the pursuit of peace, including through international federation.
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The Nazi in the Classroom
Gary B. Ostrower
American student Edward Sittler adopted German citizenship after the outbreak of World War II and became a Nazi propagandist. After the war, his past was revealed to the public and the Long Island college where he had been teaching German, launching a debate about citizenship, loyalty, and the limits of academic freedom.
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Trump and Grover Cleveland Have a Lot in Common – Will that Include Winning Two Non-Consecutive Terms?
Michael A. Genovese
With roots in New York state, a predilection for young women, and campaign scandal, Donald Trump has plenty in common with Grover Cleveland as he seeks to replicate Cleveland's unique political accomplishment.
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The Roundup Top Ten for February 11, 2022
The top opinion writing by historians and about history from around the web this week.
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