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“Despite the Handicap of Her Sex”
Dr. Cora Du Bois, American Bad-Ass of the OSS in Southeast Asia. By Jason S. Ridler.
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US election 2016: The 40-year hurt
To understand this year’s US election you have to back a long way, says Michael Goldfarb - to the economic ructions that began in the 1970s and are still continuing.
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End of the End of History, Redux
Remember Perot? By Frank Guan.
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Bill Clinton’s odious presidency: Thomas Frank on the real history of the ’90s
Welfare reform. NAFTA. The crime bill. Prisons. Aides wondered if Bill knew who he was. His legacy is sadly clear.
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When the CIA ran a LSD sex-house in San Francisco
Yet from 1955 to 1965, this building was the site of “Operation Midnight Climax” — a top-secret mind-control program in which CIA agents used hookers to lure unsuspecting johns from North Beach bars to what they called “the pad,” then dosed the men with LSD and observed the X-rated goings-on through a two-way mirror while sitting on a portable toilet swilling martinis... By Gary Kamiya.
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The Remembrance of Amalek
“In both our paranoid fear of the Other, which in our history has included the Indian, the slave in potential revolt, the bomb-throwing anarchist, the Papist of nativist fantasy, and now the Islamic jihadist, we’ve been playing out the sacred ritual of reenacting King Philip’s War over, and over.” By Ed Simon.
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A Brief History of Co-Living Spaces
Those Millennial-filled compounds aren’t all that different from 19th-century boarding houses. Co-living isn’t just a product of our current housing crisis. It has served as a de facto social network of urban transplants for generations.
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Gillian Welch on How April 14th Came to Be ‘Ruination Day’
April 15 may be Tax Day, but for some—especially singer Gillian Welch—it’s the 14th of April that’s notorious. April 14 marks the anniversary of three awful, fabled events: the assassination of President Abraham Lincoln in 1865; the Titanic striking an iceberg in 1912 (it sank in the wee hours of the 15th); and the Black Sunday dust storm of 1935.
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The “Depression Disease”: What the United States’ First National Lead Poisoning Crisis Can Teach Us about the Flint Water Disaster
The first national lead poisoning crisis in 1930s Baltimore offers lessons for policymakers dealing with the current water disaster in Flint, Michigan.
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You’ll Never Leave Harlan Alive
Patty Loveless
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Fetishizing family farms
History is nothing like the political mythology. By Gabriel Rosenberg.
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... And Still Champion
Jackie Robinson was special, but he was no Joe Louis. By Paul Beston.
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New monument to honor Paiutes slain in Circleville Massacre
A new memorial will mark a dark but rarely mentioned moment in Utah history when Mormon settlers slaughtered as many as 30 Paiute men, women and children in the small town of Circleville 150 years ago. By Dennis Romboy.
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Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young - Almost Cut My Hair
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How the Myth of the "Irish slaves" Became a Favorite Meme of Racists Online
Propaganda is cheap to produce on the web. And a purposeful lie in an age of "viral content" not only can race around the world in a day but resurface time and time again with surprising resiliency.
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In a digital archive of fugitive slave ads, a new portrait of slavery emerges
With Freedom on the Move, historians hope to reveal patterns of escape and capture, while giving anyone the chance to learn about the individual heroism of runaway slaves.
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Tales of African-American History Found in DNA
Geneticists have studied clues in the DNA of African-Americans about the history of slavery and the Great Migration.
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Taps The Bugler's Cry-The Origin of Sounding Taps
Taps Historian and bugler Jari Villanueva explains the origins of America's most famous bugle call.
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Remembering Sherman’s Army
The story of the Grand Review of the Union Armies in May, 1865 and of the veterans of Sherman’s March who believed that it was their campaign that helped bring the Civil War to its end. By Anne Sarah Rubin.
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Jack Daniel’s Embraces a Hidden Ingredient: Help From a Slave
On its 150th anniversary, the Tennessee whiskey distillery concedes that its official history didn’t tell the whole story of its origins.
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