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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• 6/14/19
  

  Roundup Top 10!

  This week's broad sampling of opinion pieces found on the Internet, as selected by the editor of HNN.

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• SOURCE: NY Daily News
  6/12/19
  

  We need to face the whole truth about Martin Luther King, Jr.

  by Jonathon Zimmerman

  The reactions to this latest episode smack of a different kind of conspiracy, which historians should both recognize and resist: the conspiracy of silence.

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• SOURCE: Atlantic Journal-Constitution
  6/7/19
  

  Enhancing the historical record is scholars’ foremost task

  by David Garrow

  David Garrow defends his recent controversial article about Martin Luther King, Jr. 

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• SOURCE: The Bulwark
  5/30/19
  

  What Are We Supposed to Think of Martin Luther King Jr. Now?

  by Rod Radosh

  Some thought Garrow should keep his discoveries under wraps, but it is the job of the historian to tell the truth. 

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• SOURCE: The Guardian
  6/8/19
  

  A historian's claims about Martin Luther King are shocking – and irresponsible

  by Donna Murch

  A recent essay claims the civil rights leader was present during a rape, but the evidence is shaky and there’s reason to be skeptical.

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  6/11/19
  

  What Naomi Wolf and Cokie Roberts teach us about the need for historians

  by Karin Wulf

  Without historical training, it’s easy to make big mistakes about the past.

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• SOURCE: Texas Perspectives
  6/10/19
  

  Voter Restrictions Have Deep History in Texas

  by Laurie B. Green

  Texas’ speedy ratification of the 19th Amendment represents a beacon for women’s political power in the U.S., but a critical assessment of the process it took to win it tells us far more about today’s political atmosphere and cautions us to compare the marketing of voting rights laws with their actual implications.

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• SOURCE: Tom Dispatch
  6/11/19
  

  What Does It Mean to be "Great" Amidst Global Climate Change

  by David Bromwich

  How can Robert Frost, Graham Greene, Immanuel Kant, and others help us understand values and climate change?

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• SOURCE: LA Progressive
  6/10/19
  

  How to Select a Democrat to Beat Trump in 2020

  by Walter G. Moss

  In a Democratic presidential candidate for 2020 we want someone who possesses the major wisdom virtues, virtues that will assist him/her to further the common good. In addition, we need someone with a progressive unifying vision. 

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• SOURCE: The Atlantic
  6/12/19
  

  Free Speech on Campus Is Doing Just Fine, Thank You

  by Lee C. Bollinger

  Norms about the First Amendment are evolving—but not in the way President Trump thinks.

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  6/12/19
  

  How the Central Park Five expose the fundamental injustice in our legal system

  by Carl Suddler

  The Central Park Five fits a historical pattern of unjust arrests and wrongful convictions of black and Latino young men in the United States.

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• SOURCE: NY Times
  6/10/19
  

  I Needed to Save My Mother’s Memories. I Hacked Her Phone.

  by Leslie Berlin

  After she died, breaking into her phone was the only way to put together the pieces of her digital life.

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• SOURCE: National Review
  6/6/19
  

  Warren Harding Was a Better President Than We Think

  by David Harsanyi

  An analysis of presidential rankings and a defense of Warren G. Harding. 

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• SOURCE: The Week
  6/9/19
  

  Don't buy your dad the new David McCullough book for Father's Day

  by Neil J. Young

  McCullough appears to have written the perfect dad book, but it's romantic view is the book's danger.

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  6/1//19
  

  The biggest fight facing the U.S. women’s soccer team isn’t on the field

  by Lindsay Parks Pieper and Tate Royer

  The history of women in sports and the discrimination they have long faced. 

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• SOURCE: Bucks Country Courier Times
  6/5/2019
  

  Editorial: David Library’s move to Philadelphia a loss for Bucks County

  The David Library’s collection deserves to be seen by as many people as possible, yet some are still saddened by the loss of one of their treasures.

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• SOURCE: National Review
  6/10/2019
  

  Why Clinton Got Impeached

  by Rich Lowry

  The anti-Clinton case then was stronger than the anti-Trump case is now.

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• 6/7/19
  

  Roundup Top 10!

  This week's broad sampling of opinion pieces found on the Internet, as selected by the editor of HNN.

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• SOURCE: NY Times
  6/6/19
  

  Who Will Survive the Trade War?

  by Margaret O’Mara

  History shows that big businesses profit most when tariffs reign. 

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  6/5/19
  

  What D-Day teaches us about the difficulty — and importance — of resistance

  by Sonia Purnell

  For four years, a few French citizens fought a losing battle. Then they won.