Cold War

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• SOURCE: New York Times
  6/4/2020
  

  The Damage Trump Has Done This Week Extends Far Beyond America’s Borders

  by Mary L. Dudziak

  Concern that Orval Faubus's defiant stand for school segregation in Arkansas would sully America's reputation abroad pushed Dwight Eisenower to deploy the National Guard in the interest of both racial justice and American leadership. Calls to deploy the military today must consider this context.

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• SOURCE: The Atlantic
  6/2/2020
  

  How History Will Judge the Complicit

  by Anne Appelbaum

  Why have Republican leaders abandoned their principles in support of an immoral and dangerous president?

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• SOURCE: New York Times
  5/29/2020
  

  The ‘Liberal World Order’ Was Built With Blood

  by Vincent Bevins

  American politicians, pundits and citizens need to understand that the history of American influence in the world has included violent subversion of democracy in the name of American interests.

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• SOURCE: Tom Dispatch
  5/5/2020
  

  V-E Day Plus 75

  by Andrew Bacevich

  What the present pandemic drives home is that protecting Americans while also creating an environment in which all citizens can flourish is going to require a radical revision of American national security policies based in Baby Boomers' interpretation of the meaning of World War II.

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• SOURCE: TIME
  4/27/2020
  

  Inside the Mission to Perform Bone-Marrow Transplants on Survivors of the Chernobyl Disaster

  "Nevertheless, the next ten days demonstrated the value of international medical cooperation in moments of crisis, even when politics might make success seem impossible." writes Yair Reisner, an Israeli doctor whose help was requested by Russian officials after the disaster.

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• SOURCE: Foreign Policy
  4/29/2020
  

  As Putin Seeks to Reinvent History, Russia-Czech Relations Hit a New Low

  The dispute over a statue of a Soviet Army officer in Prague reflects Russian efforts to claim a heroic role in defeating fascism, eastern European nationalism, and contemporary power dynamics in the region. 

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  4/26/2020
  

  How Past Crises Changed America’s Public Schools — ‘And so too Will COVID-19’

  by Ann Marie Ryan and Charles Tocci

  While this certainly feels unprecedented, the history of American public schooling shows us it's not.

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  4/10/2020
  

  Our Fear of Government Power Has Left Us Fighting COVID-19 with Volunteerism

  by Elisabeth S. Clemens

  Americans have always relied on the private sector in times of war and disaster.

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• SOURCE: Fox News
  4/9/2020
  

  Princeton Historian: America Can Beat Coronavirus if We Don't 'Defeat Ourselves'

  Stephen Kotkin, renowned for his work studying authoritarian regimes, said history teaches that the United States can triumph over the coronavirus pandemic if America doesn't "defeat ourselves."

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• SOURCE: Artnet News
  4/2/2020
  

  A 200-Foot Section of the Berlin Wall Has Been Torn Down to Make Way for Condos, Leaving Historians Appalled

  One of the largest remaining stretches of the inner wall was tucked quietly away in a suburb.

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• SOURCE: Prospect Magazine
  3/26/2020
  

  Interview With Historian Archie Brown: Rethinking the Cold War

  There's a widespread assumption that the Soviet Union had no alternative to ending the Cold War in the way they did. But that's wrong, says the Oxford historian.

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  3/24/2020
  

  Dismantling the Federal Bureaucracy Has Left Us All Vulnerable to COVID-19

  by Teal Arcadi and Casey Eilbert

  Decades of deriding bureaucrats and cuts have undermined government capacity to serve us when we need it most.

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• SOURCE: Dissent
  3/20/2020
  

  It Doesn’t Have to Be a War

  by Tim Barker

  The Trump administration appears ready to invoke the Defense Production Act to speed manufacture of essential goods like face masks. What if we didn’t have to resort to the analog of war?

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  3/22/2020
  

  President Trump Must Act Immediately to Protect Doctors and Nurses from COVID-19

  by Peter A. Shulman

  Using the Defense Production Act is long overdue — and the health of our doctors and nurses is at stake.

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• SOURCE: History.com
  3/23/2020
  

  Why Congress Passed the Defense Production Act in 1950

  The Cold War-era law went into effect during a time when President Truman felt the nation was unprepared.

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  3/3/2020
  

  Critics of Bernie Sanders’s trip to the Soviet Union are distorting it

  by Yana Skorobogatov, Yakov Feygin and Artemy M. Kalinovsky

  Historians Yana Skorobogatov and Yakov Feygin and Eastern European scholar Artemy M. Kalinovsky contextualize Sanders' opinions on the Soviet Union.

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• 2/9/20
  

  The Cold War New and Old: Architectural Exchanges Beyond the West

  by Łukasz Stanek

  Until today, many urban landscapes in West Africa bear witness to how local authorities and professionals drew on Soviet prefabrication technology, Hungarian and Polish planning methods, Yugoslav and Bulgarian construction materials, Romanian and East German standard designs, and manual laborers from across Eastern Europe.

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• SOURCE: NY Times
  2/4/20
  

  We’re Still Living in Stalin’s World

  by Diana Preston

  At the Yalta Conference 75 years ago, the Soviet leader got everything he wanted — and shaped global politics for decades.

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• SOURCE: History.com
  1/13/20
  

  'Broken Arrow': When the First U.S. Atomic Bomb Went Missing

  Since the demolition crew’s report was top secret, no word emerged about the whereabouts of the missing atomic bomb. Were there clues in the wreckage that the bomb had in fact been released prior to impact?

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• 1/12/20
  

  Why The West Is Losing The Fight For Democracy

  by Ivan Krastev and Stephen Holmes

  We once had trouble imagining a future that is not essentially democratic and capitalist. That is not the way we think today. Most of us now have trouble imagining a future, even in the West, that remains securely democratic and liberal.