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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.