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Before Oprah’s Book Club, there was the CIA
‘Cold Warriors’ traces how the U.S. and Soviet government used writers like George Orwell and Boris Pasternak to wage ideological battles during the Cold War.
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Ethan Davison
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The Outline
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August 26, 2019
More UFOs Than Ever Before
What explains the apparently sudden spike in intergalactic traffic after WWII? If Cold War anxieties are to blame, why have sightings persisted?
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Rich Cohen
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The Paris Review
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August 26, 2019
partner
What Hawaii’s Statehood Says About Inclusion in America
Conditional inclusion for "model minorities" perpetuates enduring forms of racial exclusion.
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Sarah Miller Davenport
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Made By History
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August 16, 2019
partner
Want to Know Why Some Hispanics Support Donald Trump? Ask Richard Nixon.
Nixon created the blend of Republicanism that remains attractive to a segment of Hispanic voters.
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Geraldo Cadava
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Made By History
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August 9, 2019
The Most Dangerous American Idea
No belief in the history of the US has been more threatening to democracy than the certainty that only white people are fit for self-government.
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Adam Serwer
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The Atlantic
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August 5, 2019
How Stanley Kubrick Staged the Moon Landing
To understand America, you can start with Apollo 11 and all that is counterfactual that’s grown around it.
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Rich Cohen
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The Paris Review
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July 18, 2019
The Rocket Scientist Who Had to Elude the FBI Before He Could Escape Earth
Frank Malina's scientific dreams were as radical as his politics.
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Fraser MacDonald
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Literary Hub
on
June 26, 2019
Watching the End of the World
The Doomsday Clock is set to two minutes to midnight. So why don't we make movies about nuclear war anymore?
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Stephen Phelan
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Boston Review
on
June 11, 2019
Democracy and Misinformation
The Cold War and today.
by
Jennifer M. Miller
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Perspectives on History
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June 10, 2019
“1984” at Seventy
Why we still read Orwell’s book of prophecy.
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Louis Menand
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The New Yorker
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June 8, 2019
partner
Here Comes the D-Day Myth Again
The Allied invasion of France was an important step in the war against the Nazis. But it was by no means a turning point.
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Kevin Kennedy
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HNN
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June 6, 2019
Full Metal Racket
A history sheds light on venture capital’s ties to the military-industrial complex.
by
Jamie Martin
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Bookforum
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June 1, 2019
Jackie Robinson Was Asked to Denounce Paul Robeson. Instead, He Went After Jim Crow.
His testimony before House Un-American Activities Committee was a turning point for the baseball hero.
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Johnny Smith
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Andscape
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April 15, 2019
Arms Sales: USA vs. Russia (1950-2017)
A closer look at the geopolitics of weapons sales through the Cold War, and beyond.
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Jeff Desjardins
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Will Geary
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Visual Capitalist
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April 2, 2019
How the Cold War Defined Scientific Freedom
The idea that liberal democracies shielded science from politics was always flawed.
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Patrick Iber
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The New Republic
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March 25, 2019
Racists in Congress Fought Statehood For Hawaii, But Lost That Battle 60 Years Ago
It took more than five decades for advocates of statehood to vanquish white supremacists in Washington.
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Sarah Miller Davenport
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The Conversation
on
March 18, 2019
Geopolitics for the Left
Getting out from under the "liberal international order."
by
Ted Fertik
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n+1
on
March 11, 2019
The Toxic Legacy of the Korean War
The Korean War upended the constitutional balance of war powers. It has been cited by presidents ever since.
by
Mary L. Dudziak
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Washington Post
on
March 1, 2019
The Forgotten War
What has fueled the hostility between the U.S. and North Korea for decades?
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Throughline
on
February 21, 2019
How the U.S. Designed Overseas Cemeteries to Win the Cold War
Building large memorials to display power and dominance, the US government hoped to inspire Judeo-Christian and capitalist ideals with their cemeteries.
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Kate Clarke Lemay
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What It Means to Be American
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February 14, 2019
How The CIA Overthrew Iran's Democracy In 4 Days
The first episode of NPR's new history podcast tells the story of a 1953 coup that set the stage for US-Middle East relations ever since.
by
Lawrence Wu
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Michelle Lanz
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NPR
on
February 7, 2019
Imperial Exceptionalism
Is it time for an end to American imperialism? Two authors re-examine American intervention overseas.
by
Jackson Lears
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New York Review of Books
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January 29, 2019
The Vice President’s Men
In the 1980s, vice-president George H.W. Bush was secretly the most important decision-maker in America's intelligence world.
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Seymour M. Hersh
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London Review of Books
on
January 4, 2019
Washington Trained Guatemala’s Mass Murderers—and the Border Patrol Played a Role
Now two Guatemalan children have died under Border Patrol custody. But the agency’s role in Latin American oppression has a long history.
by
Greg Grandin
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Elizabeth Oglesby
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The Nation
on
January 3, 2019
Who Killed Jakelin Caal Maquín at the US Border?
She died of cardiac arrest, but the real killer was decades of US policy in Central America.
by
Greg Grandin
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Elizabeth Oglesby
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The Nation
on
December 17, 2018
partner
The New Arms Race: American Businesses vs. China’s Government Money
How we outsourced foreign aid to private companies.
by
Brandon Kirk Williams
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Made By History
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December 10, 2018
Operation Ajax
How the CIA’s first attempt at regime change nearly failed.
by
Bridey Heing
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Lapham’s Quarterly
on
November 26, 2018
Science’s Freedom Fighters
Why do Americans get so worked up by the basic assertion that all science is political?
by
W. Patrick McCray
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Los Angeles Review of Books
on
November 18, 2018
partner
How a Folk Singer’s Murder Forced Chile to Confront Its Past
Víctor Jara was a legendary Chilean folk singer and political activist whose murder during a U.S.-backed military coup in 1973 went unsolved for decades.
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Retro Report
on
November 18, 2018
The Peace Movement Won the INF Treaty. We Must Fight to Preserve It.
In the 1980s, millions of antinuclear activists took to the streets, forcing Western governments to respond to our demands.
by
David Cortright
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The Nation
on
November 14, 2018
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