Year: 2017
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Link: One of many historians of Nazi Germany weighing in on the significance of Trump’s inauguration
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Sign at a local bookstore, Kramer’s, lambasting Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos. “Bookstores: Your Alternative Department of Education.”
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No really, Laurel Leff wants to know. This isn’t a poltical-rhetorical question but something bigger. What are we to make of the president’s recent nod to Holocaust denial? We need to consider the matter in an open, fearless, and dispassionate way, but how? For those of us who teach and…
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Link: “Today’s Banned Immigrants Are No Different From Our Immigrant Ancestors,” by Tyler Anbinder, AHA Today, February 7, 2017
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Quote from Charles Sykes on “why nobody cares the president is lying”
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Political cartoon: After the latest Spiegel cover and all the news it embodies, this cartoon by Sam Machado feels really good, particularly with its use of gender against the U.S. chauvinist-in-chief.
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YouTube Video: U.S. War Department film showing a young man nearly sucked in by racism and xenophobia until a Hungarian American narrator uses recent history to talk him out of it.
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German magazine cover with color drawing of Trump brandishing Liberty’s head in one hand, blood dripping down, and a big sharp knife in the other. Caption: “America First.”
