history
A real coup couldn’t happen here…could it?
August 16, 2021Yes, it could and it almost did, not once, but at least three times.
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History as upheaval and progress enters stage with novelist Walter Scott
August 13, 2021Born 250 years ago, Walter Scott showed another kind of historical novel is possible from the ones we see today.
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Election Day 2020 should have mimicked 1932. What went wrong?
August 13, 2021While a broad coalition beat back GOP control in several branches of government last year, progressive majorities don’t match the ones we had in 1932.
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Thousands of Indigenous children perished in ‘genocide boarding schools’
August 12, 2021Hunger. Starvation. Beatings. Ill-clothed in winter. Forbidden to speak their Native tongues. Sexual predators roaming the dormitory halls. Such was the lot of thousands of Indigenous children in the Indian boarding school era.
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Will it be the Kaiser’s ghost or a peace policy that prevails in Germany?
August 11, 2021That seems to be the big unanswered question on this, the 60th anniversary, of the Berlin Wall.
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