Showing posts with label Unmastered Past. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Unmastered Past. Show all posts
Friday, February 19, 2016

Japanese American Day of Remembrance, 2016 (and unintended consequences)

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Serendipity is an interesting thing. As noted in last night's post , a Minneapolis paper just ran an editorial about plans to restore hi...

Save the Fort: a textbook illustration of how historic preservation can link past and present

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It was a distinctive sight: early nineteenth-century fortifications overlooking the Mississippi and Minnesota rivers on what was once the fr...
Monday, October 12, 2015

The Best Columbus Bio You Never Read (and it's German)

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Every year, as Columbus Day rolls around, it seems that the critique of the explorer and reluctance to celebrate his holiday grow. Nothing ...
Thursday, August 20, 2015

‘This is a good Jap–a dead one" - "The armed forces disapprove strongly of this sort of thing."

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Lest one conclude, from recent posts, that the emphasis here should be exclusively on Japanese atrocities and fanaticism: on the contr...
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Sunday, August 16, 2015

Recalling the Limited Nuclear Test Ban Treaty

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In arguing in favor of the nuclear deal with Iran, President Obama cited President Kennedy and moreover copied his predecessor by choosing ...
Tuesday, July 7, 2015

Surprised that people think the Confederate flag is not a symbol of racism? Listen to what they think about slavery.

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Southerners can continue to honor their ancestors, but doing so does not necessitate embracing the vile cause for which they fought — just ...
Monday, April 13, 2015

April 13, 1943: Nazis Announce Discovery of Mass Grave of Murdered Poles at Katyń

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In April-May 1940, the security services of Stalin’s Soviet Union, which had concluded a non-aggression pact with Nazi Germany in August 193...
Wednesday, December 31, 2014

The (elegant brass) Christmas Box--Anno 1914

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Whenever possible, I like to use images and objects in teaching. They can provide insights into specific aspects of life in the past in th...
Sunday, November 9, 2014

Fall of the Wall Disclaimer

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Today of course marks the 25th anniversary of the opening/fall of the Berlin Wall. It was a striking event for those of us who watche...
Monday, September 24, 2012

A Tip for You: My Penis Piece

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Those of you who were focused on the Olympics or the presidential campaign over the summer may be excused for having missed the other dramat...
Thursday, September 13, 2012

9-11 and Amherst: Why Do They Hate Us? (part 1)

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Amherst, September 10 Let's just get a couple of misconceptions out of the way.  Contrary to what has been reported in the press and w...
Wednesday, March 7, 2012

March 7: A Date That Will Live in Irony

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Monday, January 16, 2012

On Martin Luther King, Monuments, & Drum Majors (and: Heinrich Heine)

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I wasn’t able to attend the town’s annual scholarship breakfast in honor of the Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr. on Saturday, but I was thinki...