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What’s Behind the Fight Over Whether Nonprofits Can Be Forced to Disclose Donors’ Names
A reminder of how tricky it is to balance protecting transparency and freedom of association.
by
Helen J. Knowles-Gardner
via
Made By History
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January 16, 2024
Guatemala’s Baby Brokers: How Thousands of Children Were Stolen For Adoption
Baby brokers often tricked Indigenous Mayan women into giving up newborns; kidnappers took others. International adoption is now seen as a cover for war crimes.
by
Rachel Nolan
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The Guardian
on
January 4, 2024
Japan’s Incomplete Reckoning With World War II Crimes
Gary Bass’s new book asks why the tribunal in Tokyo after World War II was so ineffective.
by
Aryeh Neier
via
The New Republic
on
December 7, 2023
Bad Facts, Bad Law
In a recent Supreme Court oral argument about disarming domestic abusers, originalism itself was put to the test.
by
Duncan Hosie
via
New York Review of Books
on
November 25, 2023
America’s Most Dangerous Anti-Jewish Propagandist
Making sense of anti-Semitism today requires examining Henry Ford’s outsize part in its origins.
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Daniel Schulman
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The Atlantic
on
November 7, 2023
Charlottesville’s Lee Statue Meets its End, in a 2,250-Degree Furnace
The divisive Confederate monument, the focus of the deadly “Unite the Right” rally, was melted down in secret and will become a new piece of public art.
by
Teo Armus
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Hadley Green
via
Washington Post
on
October 26, 2023
The Revolution Within the American Revolution
Supported and largely led by slaveholders, the American Revolution was also, paradoxically, a profound antislavery event.
by
Sean Wilentz
via
New York Review of Books
on
October 23, 2023
A Racist Scientist Commissioned Photos of Enslaved People. One Descendant Wants to Reclaim Them.
There's no clear system in place to repatriate remains of captive Africans or objects associated with them.
by
Jennifer Berry Hawes
via
ProPublica
on
October 9, 2023
What the Conventional Narrative Gets Wrong About the Civil Rights Movement
A new book illuminates how Black Americans used property ownership, common law and other methods to assert their rights.
by
Matt Delmont
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Washington Post
on
September 26, 2023
Hypodermics on the Shore
The “syringe tides”—waves of used hypodermic needles, washing up on land—terrified beachgoers of the late 1980s. Their disturbing lesson was ignored.
by
Jeremy A. Greene
via
The Atlantic
on
August 29, 2023
Bond Villains
Municipal governments today hold around $4 trillion in outstanding debt. The growing costs of simply servicing their debt is cannibalizing their annual budgets.
by
Clark Randall
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Boston Review
on
August 16, 2023
The Unlikely Origins of ‘Rapper’s Delight,’ Hip-Hop’s First Mainstream Hit
The Sugarhill Gang song remains one of rap's most beloved. But it took serendipity, a book of rhymes, and an agreement to settle a lawsuit for it to survive.
by
Kim Bellware
via
Retropolis
on
August 8, 2023
Why Did They Bomb Clinton High School?
It was the first Southern school to be integrated by court order, and the town reluctantly prepared to comply. Then an acolyte of Ezra Pound’s showed up.
by
Louis Menand
via
The New Yorker
on
July 31, 2023
How the Kentucky Cave Wars Reshaped the State's Tourism Industry
Rival entrepreneurs took drastic steps to draw visitors away from Mammoth Cave in the early 20th century.
by
Eliza McGraw
via
Smithsonian
on
July 25, 2023
The Curse of Bigness
Until more Americans know what happened in periods such as the Gilded Age, they can’t protect themselves from those who abuse history to advance poor policy.
by
Amity Shlaes
via
National Review
on
July 10, 2023
Keeping Speech Robust and Free
Dominion Voting Systems lawsuit against Fox News' coverage of claims that the company had rigged the 2020 election may soon become an artifact of a vanished era.
by
Jeffrey Toobin
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New York Review of Books
on
July 7, 2023
It's Time to Defend the History of All Texans
The way we learn about our collective past is under attack thanks to new leadership at the Texas State Historical Association (TSHA).
by
John R. Lundberg
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The Texas Observer
on
June 21, 2023
What Justice John Paul Stevens’ Papers Reveal About Affirmative Action
Twenty years ago, Sandra Day O'Connor's deleted draft opinion rejected favoring white applicants over Asian Americans. Why did Clarence Thomas adopt it?
by
Jeannie Suk Gersen
via
The New Yorker
on
June 20, 2023
The Many Legacies of Letitia Carson
An effort to memorialize the homestead of one of Oregon’s first Black farmers illuminates the land’s complicated history.
by
Jaclyn Moyer
via
High Country News
on
June 1, 2023
Brown v. Board of Education: Annotated
The 1954 Supreme Court decision, based on the Fourteenth Amendment to the US Constitution, declared that “separate but equal” has no place in education.
by
Liz Tracey
via
JSTOR Daily
on
May 17, 2023
The Toxic Legacy of the Gold Rush
Almost 175 years after the Gold Rush began, Californians are left holding the bag for thousands of abandoned mines.
by
Leah Campbell
via
Gizmodo
on
May 15, 2023
“Originalist” Arguments Against Gun Control Get U.S. History Completely Wrong
Gun control is actually an American tradition.
by
Mary C. Curtis
,
Robert J. Spitzer
via
Slate
on
May 3, 2023
When You Buy a Book, You Can Loan It to Anyone. This Judge Says Libraries Can’t. Why Not?
The lawsuit against Controlled Digital Lending is about giving corporations—rather than readers, buyers, borrowers, or authors—control over content.
by
Michelle M. Wu
via
The Nation
on
April 20, 2023
One of the 19th Century’s Greatest Villains is the Anti-Abortion Movement’s New Hero
Anthony Comstock, the 19th-century scourge of art and sex, is suddenly relevant again thanks to Donald Trump’s worst judge.
by
Ian Millhiser
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Vox
on
April 12, 2023
Tennessee
The state GOP's expulsion of legislators Justin Pearson and Justin Jones echoes Georgia's refusal to seat congressman Julian Bond in 1965 for opposing the Vietnam War.
by
Joyce Vance
via
Joycevance.substack
on
April 7, 2023
The Fallout
The fight over nuclear waste on Yucca Mountain.
by
Andrew Alam-Nist
via
The Politic
on
March 30, 2023
Varmints, Soldiers and Looming Threats: See the Ads Used to Sell the AR-15
Through six decades, gunmakers and advertisers leveraged social and cultural changes to broaden the AR-15′s appeal.
by
Alex Horton
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Monique Woo
,
Tucker Harris
via
Washington Post
on
March 27, 2023
The Women Behind the Montgomery Bus Boycott
We've heard about Rosa Parks and her crucial role, but Parks was just one of many women involved.
by
Karen Grigsby Bates
via
NPR
on
March 22, 2023
Ticketmaster’s Dark History
A 40-year saga of kickbacks, threats, political maneuvering, and the humiliation of Pearl Jam.
by
Maureen Tkacik
,
Krista Brown
via
The American Prospect
on
December 21, 2022
Why the U.S. Is Losing the Fight to Ban Toxic Chemicals
How the U.S. became a global laggard in chemical regulation.
by
Sharon Lerner
,
Neil Bedi
,
Kathleen McGrory
via
ProPublica
on
December 14, 2022
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