Roundup

This page features brief excerpts of stories published by the mainstream media and, less frequently, blogs, alternative media, and even obviously biased sources. The excerpts are taken directly from the websites cited in each source note. Quotation marks are not used.

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• SOURCE: OUPBlog
  9-26-15
  

  Substance, style, and myth in the Kennedy-Nixon debates

  by Christopher McKnight Nichols

  Yes, image was crucial, but it also seems that what Kennedy had to say and how he approached the issues that was also significant.

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• SOURCE: The Nation
  10-27-15
  

  Ending Colombia’s 100-Year War

  by Greg Grandin

  Peace talks, nudged along by Cuba and the Vatican, might finally bring an end to the hemisphere’s longest-running civil war.

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• SOURCE: Daniel Pipes Blog
  10-27-15
  

  Ending a Century of Palestinian Rejectionism

  by Daniel Pipes

  Palestinians are on the wrong track and will not get off it until the outside world demands better of them.

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• SOURCE: Politico
  10-25-15
  

  Paul Ryan’s Haunted House

  by Josh Zeitz

  What can he learn from the ghosts of speakers past?

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• SOURCE: Politico
  10-25-15
  

  What you won’t hear from Donald Trump is that in the 1980s he trashed Ronald Reagan

  by Michael D’Antonio

  Reagan was too soft on the Soviets, said Trump.

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• SOURCE: Politico
  10-25-15
  

  The First Time America Tried Mass Deportation It Was a Disaster

  by Claudio Saunt

  Why would we consider trying it again?

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• SOURCE: NYT
  10-27-15
  

  My losing battle to see the official papers of Sen. Joe McCarthy

  by Alexis Coe

  Congress isn’t covered by FOIA. It should be.

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• SOURCE: The Atlantic
  10-26-15
  

  What If Reconstruction Hadn’t Failed?

  by Annette Gordon-Reed

  The pervasiveness of white-supremacist ideology in academia gave license to Jim Crow efforts for decades after the Civil War.

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• SOURCE: The Los Angeles Times
  10-27-15
  

  Like Prohibition, the fight over guns is about something else

  by Jonathan Zimmerman

  It's about different ways of seeing the world and — most of all — about who will gain the symbolic upper hand.

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• SOURCE: Tom Dispatch
  10-27-15
  

  America’s Peculiar Brand of Global Imperialism

  by William J. Astore

  The United States is a peculiar sort of empire.

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• SOURCE: NYT
  10-24-15
  

  The Central Bank Skeptic Who Helped Give Birth to the Fed

  by Roger Lowenstein

  After the Wall Street Panic of 1907, Senator Nelson W. Aldrich worked to build support for a central bank.

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• SOURCE: The Washington Post
  10-24-15
  

  What America’s immigrants looked like when they arrived on Ellis Island

  by Ana Swanson

  We hear so often that America is "a nation of immigrants" or a "cultural mixing pot" that the phrase has become kind of a tired cliche. But actually seeing that history is a different story.

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• SOURCE: Informed Comment blog
  10-26-15
  

  Bush Lapdog Blair can’t Even Apologize Correctly for Destabilizing the Middle East

  by Juan Cole

  Blair’s “apologies” always take the form of the little boy who, when instructed to apologize for calling a lady fat, says, “Lady, I’m sorry you’re fat.”

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• SOURCE: OZY
  10-26-15
  

  Malcolm X Called Him the Most Impressive Black Man Ever to Walk the African Continent

  by Eugene S. Robinson

  His name was Patrice Lumumba but he was killed before he had a chance to remake the Congo.

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• SOURCE: The Guardian
  10-19-15
  

  Joan Brady: Alger Hiss 'was framed by Nixon'

  by Susanna Rustin

  Novelist who knew Hiss for more than three decades has written a personal history that accuses president of fitting him up as a communist spy

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• SOURCE: CNN
  10-18-15
  

  The Republican click-bait primary

  by Julian Zelizer

  Snappy one-liners have been commonplace for a while, especially in the era of television campaigns. But in 2015, invective is on the verge of becoming the norm.

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• SOURCE: The Washington Free Beacon
  10-24-15
  

  The Real History Behind Netanyahu's Holocaust Comments

  by Brent Scher

  An interview with Dr. Wolfgang G. Schwanitz

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• 10-22-15
  

  Social Media News: What Historians Are Talking About

  by HNN Editor

  This week ... Mary Dudziak, Jelani Cobb, Rick Perlstein, and Peniel Joseph.

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• SOURCE: Times of Israel
  10-22-15
  

  Netanyahu, Husseini, and the Historians

  by Jeffrey Herf

  Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's comments about Haj Amin al-Husseini's impact on Hitler's decision-making about the Final Solution in Europe do not stand up to the consensus of historical research.

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• SOURCE: The Nation
  10-20-15
  

  How Bernie Sanders Should Talk About Democratic Socialism

  by Eric Foner

  Instead of looking to Europe, Sanders could evoke the rich heritage of American radicalism.