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Unchecked Power

How monopolies have flourished—and undermined democracy.
by Ganesh Sitaraman via The New Republic on November 29, 2018

What War of the Worlds Did

The uncanny realism of Orson Welles’s radio play crystallised a fear of communication technology that haunts us today.
by Benjamin Naddaff-Hafrey via Aeon on November 26, 2018

A History of Human Guinea Pigs

Medical science has always had a lax relationship to consent – especially with the marginalized.
by Line Høj Høstrup via The Nib on September 5, 2018
Woodrow Wilson speaking to Congress.
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Trump's National Security Justification for Tariffs Is Not as Strange as It Sounds

Our concept of national security is so broad it can encompass virtually anything.
by Andrew Preston via Made By History on August 17, 2018

The Nuclear Fail

Physicist and writer Leo Szilard was vital to the creation of the atomic bomb. He also did everything he could to prevent its use.
by Emily Harnett via Hazlitt on July 30, 2018

Bad Blood

The history of eugenics in the Progressive Age.
by Patricia J. Williams via The Times Literary Supplement on July 17, 2018
Identification documents and photo of Hans Speier on the cover of "Democracy in Exile."

Killing Democracy to Save It

How an idealistic defense intellectual concluded that democracy is often its own worst enemy.
by John Ganz via Los Angeles Review of Books on July 6, 2018

Making the Movies Un-American

How Hollywood tried to fight fascism and ended up blacklisting suspected Communists.
by Noah Isenberg via The New Republic on July 3, 2018

The Right to Have Rights

Hannah Arendt’s conception of human rights has much to say to our contemporary moment.
by Stephanie Degooyer, Alastair Hunt via Public Books on May 3, 2018

The World the Cold War Built

A new book says the conflict began in the late 19th century and subsumed even World War II as our defining event.
by Leon Hadar via The American Conservative on January 31, 2018

History is Not There to be Liked: On Historical Memory, Real and Fake

Historians have the uncomfortable role of shattering people’s memories.
by Jason Steinhauer via Foreign Policy Research Institute on September 15, 2017

American Nazis in the 1930s—The German American Bund

A collection of photos of American Nazis – and the Americans who took a stand against them.
by Alan Taylor via The Atlantic on June 5, 2017

How America Shed the Taboo Against Preventive War

If Dwight Eisenhower or Ronald Reagan were transported to 2017, they would be shocked that the United States is considering an attack on North Korea.
by Peter Beinart via The Atlantic on April 21, 2017

Donald Trump, Jews and the Myth of Race

Until the 1940s, Jews in America were considered a separate race. Their journey to whiteness has important lessons.
by Jonathan Zimmerman via Salon on April 9, 2017
Ernst Borinski

Many Jewish Refugee Professors Found Homes at Historically Black Colleges

And they were shocked by race relations in the South.
by Heather Gilligan via Timeline on March 9, 2017

Trump Revives a Shameful Tradition: Targeting a Minority Group with Crime Reports

The president's executive orders and inflammatory rhetoric follow a predictable path.
by Andrea Pitzer via Longreads on February 8, 2017

We’ve Been Here Before: Historians Annotate and Analyze Immigration Ban's Place in History

Six historians unpack the meaning of President Trump's controversial executive order.
by Angilee Shah via PRI's The World on February 1, 2017

Anti-Syrian Muslim Refugee Rhetoric Mirrors Calls to Reject Jews During Nazi Era

The fears that were conjured by nativists 80 years ago are chillingly similar to what we're hearing today.
by Lee Fang via The Intercept on November 18, 2015

How the Military Waged a Graphic-Design War on Venereal Disease

"Fool the Axis—use Prophylaxis!"In many ways, such a coordinated public effort to alter sexual behavior was unprecedented.
by Hunter Oatman-Stanford via Collectors Weekly on February 11, 2015

The Problem of Slavery

David Brion Davis’s philosophical history.
by Scott Spillman via The Point on July 23, 2014

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