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The Other Nuremberg Trials, Seventy-Five Years On
Failures in prosecuting German businesses who profited in Nazi Germany show how far Europe and America were willing to go to protect capitalism.
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Erica X. Eisen
via
Boston Review
on
March 22, 2021
When Constitutions Took Over the World
Was this new age spurred by the ideals of the Enlightenment or by the imperatives of global warfare?
by
Jill Lepore
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The New Yorker
on
March 22, 2021
Photographer Lee Miller’s Subversive Career Took Her from Vogue to War-Torn Germany
She also acted as a muse to artist Man Ray, with whom she briefly led a relationship.
by
Angelica Villa
via
Art In America
on
March 19, 2021
Our Strange Addiction
The transformation of tobacco and cannabis into early modern global obsessions.
by
Benjamin Breen
via
Lapham’s Quarterly
on
March 15, 2021
How a Cuban Spy Sabotaged New York's Thriving, Illicit Slave Trade
Emilio Sanchez and the British government fought the lucrative business as American authorities looked the other way.
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John Harris
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Smithsonian Magazine
on
March 8, 2021
The Manifest Destiny Marauders Who Gave the “Filibuster” Its Name
Long before Southern Democrats filibustered Civil Rights legislation, “filibusteros” were conquering slave territories for the United States.
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John Patrick Leary
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The New Republic
on
March 5, 2021
New York City and the Persistence of the Atlantic Slave Trade
Even after slave trade was banned, the United States and New York City, in particular, were complicit in allowing it to persist.
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Gerald Horne
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The Nation
on
February 24, 2021
The Once-Classified Tale of Juanita Moody: The Woman Who Helped Avert a Nuclear War
America’s bold response to the Soviet Union depended on an unknown spy agency operative whose story can at last be told.
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David Wolman
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Susan Seubert
via
Smithsonian Magazine
on
February 23, 2021
The Never-Ending Frontier?
The US imperialist wars in the Philippines, Korea, Vietnam, and Afghanistan grew from US wars against Indigenous people in the 19th century.
by
Karl Jacoby
via
Public Books
on
February 9, 2021
The Americans Who Embraced Mussolini
As we confront rightwing extremism in our own time, the history of American fascist sympathy reveals a legacy worth reckoning with.
by
Justin H. Vassallo
via
Boston Review
on
February 1, 2021
The Great White Reunion: On Duncan Bell’s “Dreamworlds of Race”
Could the separation of the Revolutionary War have been patched in the late 19th century? Some powerful men tried...
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Bassam Sidiki
via
Los Angeles Review of Books
on
January 26, 2021
The Limits of Caste
By neglecting the history of the Black diaspora, Isabel Wilkerson's "Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents" fails to reckon with systems of racial capitalism.
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Hazel V. Carby
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London Review of Books
on
January 21, 2021
The Hour of the Barbarian
What happened on January 6 was profoundly American, emerging as it did from our long and very specific history. No one did this to us.
by
Vincent Bevins
via
n+1
on
January 11, 2021
The End of Empire and the Rise of Tax Havens
How decolonisation propelled the growth of low-tax jurisdictions, with lasting economic implications for former colonies.
by
Vanessa Ogle
via
New Statesman
on
December 18, 2020
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What Biden’s Attachment to An American Century Might Mean
Biden’s vision may conflict with promoting purported American values such as democracy and human rights.
by
Suzanne Enzerink
via
Made By History
on
December 16, 2020
James Baldwin, Here and Elsewhere
How the United States terrorizes the rest of the world, Baldwin realized abroad, echoed how it terrorized its inhabitants at home.
by
Begum Adalet
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Public Books
on
December 16, 2020
partner
If Nations Compete For Doses of Coronavirus Vaccines, We’ll All Lose
Pandemics can only be contained through organized collaboration and cooperative diplomacy.
by
Michael Falcone
via
Made By History
on
December 9, 2020
The Vanishing American Century?
After World War II, American power on the world stage was defined by internationalism and cooperation.
by
Daniel Immerwahr
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Jeremi Suri
via
Not Even Past
on
December 9, 2020
The Long Roots of Endless War
A new history shows how the glut of US military bases abroad has led to a constant state of military conflict.
by
Daniel Immerwahr
via
The Nation
on
November 30, 2020
“It is History and It Is Fascinating”
Katherine Fite and the Nuremberg War Crime Trials, 1945.
by
Tammy Williams
via
U.S. National Archives
on
November 19, 2020
partner
Black Americans in the Popular Front Against Fascism
The era of anti-fascist struggle was a crucial moment for Black radicals of all stripes.
by
Mohammed Elnaiem
via
JSTOR Daily
on
November 12, 2020
What We Should Remember on Armistice Day
World War I was a catastrophic, barbaric conflict that left tens of millions of people dead and set the stage for anti-democratic rollbacks for years to come.
by
Michael Brenes
via
Jacobin
on
November 11, 2020
Warfare State
Democrats and Republicans are increasingly united in an anti-China front. But their approaches to U.S. foreign policy diverge.
by
Thomas Meaney
via
London Review of Books
on
October 28, 2020
Why Is America the World’s Police?
A new book explains how U.S. political elites sold the UN to the public as a route to global peace, while all along wanting it as a cover for militarization.
by
Sam Lebovic
via
Boston Review
on
October 19, 2020
The Jamaican Slave Insurgency That Transformed the World
From Vincent Brown's Cundill Prize-nominated "Tacky’s Revolt."
by
Vincent Brown
via
Literary Hub
on
October 14, 2020
The Day Nuclear War Almost Broke Out
In the nearly sixty years since the Cuban missile crisis, the story of near-catastrophe has only grown more complicated.
by
Elizabeth Kolbert
via
The New Yorker
on
October 5, 2020
44 Years Ago Today, Chilean Socialist Orlando Letelier Was Assassinated on US Soil
On September 21, 1976, he was assassinated by a car bomb in the heart of Washington, DC.
by
Alan McPherson
via
Jacobin
on
September 21, 2020
The English Were Relative Latecomers to the Americas, Despite the USA's Founding Myth
Until the 1600s, Spain, France and Portugal were much bigger players in the settlement of the New World.
by
David Gehring
via
The Conversation
on
September 16, 2020
Emancipation in War: The United States and Peru
A comparative look at the U.S. and Peru's emancipation proclamations' nuances in declaring the freedom of enslaved peoples.
by
Niels Eichhorn
via
Muster
on
September 15, 2020
This Soldier’s Witness to the Iraq War Lie
A U.S. intelligence officer reflects on the moral corruption of an open-ended occupation.
by
Frederic Wehrey
via
New York Review of Books
on
September 15, 2020
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