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11/15/2020
Reckoning with Marcus Whitman and the Memorialization of Conquest
by Cassandra Tate
The same period that saw the public affirmation of the Confederate Lost Cause myth saw a proliferation of monuments that portrayed the conquest of the indigenous people of the west as virtuous pioneering. The case of Marcus Whitman shows a national reckoning is in order.
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11/1/2020
Columbus Still Kills: Trump, Colonial Apologetics and Anti-Native Violence
by Thomas Lecaque
As a historian, I see recent attacks on indigenous Americans and intrusions on tribal lands as part of a lengthy tradition of violence. But this year has witnessed a surge in apologetics for colonial violence in history that give support to present-day harm.
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SOURCE: KJZZ
10/26/2020
Arizona Education Board Votes To Require Students Learn About The Holocaust, Other Genocides
Esther Basch, a Holocaust survivor, and her daughter Rachel Basch Turet told the board that many of the people they speak with know about World War II, but have no idea of "the extent of horrors that happened to the Jews in Europe.”
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SOURCE: Foreign Policy
10/7/2020
How Bad History Feeds Far-Right Fantasies
by Thomas Lecaque
A fellow medievalist argues that Jeff Fynn-Paul failed to read or understand the historical literature before writing a controversial recent essay exculpating Europeans for mass death in the course of colonialism.
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9/20/2020
Unlike the Germans We Have Failed to Recognize and Atone for Our Holocausts
by Walter G. Moss
Reconciling America's racial divisions requires honest reckoning with the past, and teaching history as a search for the truth, not an effort to inclulcate patriotism, placate parents, or pander to censorious textbook commissions.
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SOURCE: New York Times
8/16/2020
A Saint's Sins
Columnist Elizabeth Breunig consults historians including James Sandos, Robert Senkiewicz and Steven Hackel to evaluate how the canonization of Father Junipero Serra among Catholics and his memorialization by Californians squares with recognition of atrocities committed against Native Americans by Spanish colonizers.
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SOURCE: The Guardian
8/3/2020
Statue of White Woman Holding Hatchet and Scalps Sparks Backlash in New England
Hannah Duston, subject of the first publicly funded US monument to a woman, is implicated in the deaths of 10 Native Americans
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SOURCE: Al Jazeera
7/4/2020
UK Historian David Starkey Quits Cambridge After Slavery Remarks
The British historian caused outrage by saying 'slavery was not genocide' in a recent interview.
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SOURCE: Cleveland Plain Dealer
6/26/2020
The Rap Against Christopher Columbus Statues Overlooks Their Origins
by Jonathan Zimmerman
The great achievement of the 20th-century United States was the integration of formerly excluded ethnics -- Italians, Irish, Jews, and others -- into full citizenship and equality. And the great tragedy was our failure to do the same for nonwhites, especially African Americans and Native Americans.
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SOURCE: SFist
6/22/2020
Who Was Junipero Serra, and Why Do Activists Want His Name Stripped From Institutions and His Statues Toppled?
The architect of the Spanish Mission system in California has some defenders among historians, but Native American activists associate his legacy with genocide.
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6/7/2020
Mourning in America
by Ed Simon
Historically the powerful have described deaths from disease and starvation as "natural" to hide the political nature of suffering and their own responsibility. To mourn is to fight this erasure.
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Indian Removal
by Claudio Saunt
In May 1830, the United States Congress authorized the US federal government to uproot and transport 80,000 people from their homes east of the Mississippi.
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3/22/2020
Why Holocaust Fiction?
by Bernice Lerner
Had they had a choice, I believe Hitler’s victims would have wanted nothing about the mortal crimes against them falsified.
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SOURCE: NY Times
1/25/20
75 Years After Auschwitz Liberation, Worry That ‘Never Again’ Is Not Assured
Amid a surge of anti-Semitism and a rise in dehumanizing political rhetoric, there is fear that the horrific lessons of the death camp are being lost.
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SOURCE: The New York Times
1/21/20
The Road to Auschwitz Wasn't Paved With Indifference
by Rivka Weinberg
We don’t have to be ‘upstanders’ to avoid genocides. We just have to make sure not to help them along.
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SOURCE: NY Times
10/29/19
A Belated Recognition of Genocide by the House
by Samantha Power
For too long, Turkey bullied America into silence. Not anymore.
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SOURCE: Washington Post
10/14/19
Here are the indigenous people Christopher Columbus and his men could not annihilate
This year the District of Columbia joins at least five states and dozens of cities and counties in replacing Columbus Day with Indigenous Peoples’ Day. It’s part of a decades-long reckoning with the sanitized version of the European colonization of the Americas.
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SOURCE: The Conversation
9/5/19
Lessons from the UN peacekeeping mission in Rwanda, 25 years after the genocide it failed to stop
by Samantha Lakin
Despite the broader mission’s many well-documented failings, peacekeepers took risks to save lives, going beyond official orders to protect innocent Rwandans.
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SOURCE: AP
9/1/19
Jeffrey Ostler's "Surviving Genocide" argues that the emergence of American democracy depended on the taking of Native lands
The book comes as scholars and writers are challenging narratives around American history and how it hurt people of color.
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SOURCE: Washington Post
8/27/19
Pumpkin spice wars: The violent history behind your favorite Starbucks latte
PSL is back, and so is its connection to a centuries old genocide.
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