democracy

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• 9/15/19
  

  Autocrats do not need a majority to destroy democracy. A divided opposition helps them.

  by Claudia Koonz

  Trump is not a despot. But neither were Mussolini and Hitler early on.

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• 9/8/19
  

  1933 May Be Closer than We Think

  by Frank Domurad

  Increasing cultural, social and political continuities between Weimar and America should give us serious concern in assessing the fate of these two democracies as part of an analogous historical phenomenon.

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• SOURCE: The Guardian
  9/5/19
  

  America's 'democratic experiment' is inextricably tied to the history of slavery

  by Peniel E Joseph

  The year 1619 laid out rough boundaries of citizenship, freedom, and democracy that are still being policed.

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• SOURCE: The Guardian
  8/30/19
  

  To rescue democracy, we must revive the reforms of the Progressive Era

  by Ganesh Sitaraman

  The playbook for taming industrial capitalism already exists. It’s the essential starting point for reform today.

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• 91/1/9
  

  Where Are the Hong Kong Protests Headed?

  by Kevin M. Shanley

  After ten weeks of protest by students and others in Hong Kong the crisis seems to be spiraling toward a tragic climax.

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• SOURCE: Historians for Peace and Democracy
  6/14/19
  

  Why the United States is not a true democracy

  by Van Gosse

  Since the Civil War, a series of constitutional amendments, acts of Congress, and Supreme Court decisions have extended the right to vote, but always through negative prohibitions on what a state or locality may do.

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• SOURCE: Texas Perspectives
  6/10/19
  

  Voter Restrictions Have Deep History in Texas

  by Laurie B. Green

  Texas’ speedy ratification of the 19th Amendment represents a beacon for women’s political power in the U.S., but a critical assessment of the process it took to win it tells us far more about today’s political atmosphere and cautions us to compare the marketing of voting rights laws with their actual implications.

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  5/21/19
  

  Why study history? Because it can save us from democratic collapse.

  by John Jeffries Martin

  What the Founding Fathers can teach us about applied historical knowledge.

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• SOURCE: Keeping Democracy Alive
  5/2/19
  

  Knute Berger: Why History is Vital to Democracy

  Berger went on the Keeping Democracy Alive podcast to discuss. 

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• SOURCE: Financial Times
  5/2/19
  

  US declining interest in history presents risk to democracy

  by Edward Luce

  In an ever more algorithmic world, Americans increasingly believe humanities are irrelevant.

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  4/17/19
  

  How California is dumbing down our democracy

  by Max Boot

  It is a matter of national concern that the California State University (CSU) system is on the verge of further diluting its already inadequate history and government requirements.

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• 4/14/19
  

  Is the Western World Declining and Russia Rising?

  by Walter G. Moss

  Yes, according to Glenn Diesen’s 2018 book The Decay of Western Civilization and Resurgence of Russia. But this isn't the first time scholars have made such a prediction and been wrong. 

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• SOURCE: The Atlantic
  Accessed 4/11/19
  

  The End of the American Century

  by George Packer

  What the life of Richard Holbrooke tells us about the decay of Pax Americana.

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• SOURCE: The Nation
  4/3/19
  

  2 Minutes and Counting

  by Oliver Stone and Peter Kuznick

  Crises that seemed contained not long ago have now spiraled out of control—and the prospects for resolving them peacefully look depressingly bleak.

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• SOURCE: NY Times
  4/7/19
  

  Is the U.S. a Democracy? A Social Studies Battle Turns on the Nation’s Values

  Michigan spent five years debating how to teach American history. One of the biggest questions was how to describe the nation’s government.

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• SOURCE: The Atlantic
  3/21/19
  

  Nazis Have Always Been Trolls

  by Adam Serwer

  Historically, they rely on murderous insincerity and the unwillingness of liberal societies to see them for what they are.

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• 2/24/19
  

  Teaching the Fall of the Roman Republic During the Trump Presidency

  by Edward Watts

  My students are trying to understand Rome’s mistakes and discover sources of its political resilience.

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• SOURCE: New Yorker
  1/31/19
  

  Does democracy need truth? A conversation with historian Sophia Rosenfeld

  Rosenfeld discusses whether it is healthy for a democratic society to debate issues like evolution and global warming, why people distrust experts, and whether public fact-checking is a good solution to the problem of fake news.

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• SOURCE: New York Times
  Accessed 1/17/19
  

  Video of the Week: ‘What Is Democracy?’ Review: Going Back to Greece, Documentary Asks Who Rules

  Like democracy itself, the movie assumes such a broad mandate and has such noble intentions that indicating its shortcomings seems almost beside the point.

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• SOURCE: Penguin Random House Website
  12/27/2018 (date accessed)
  

  How Democracies Die

  by Steven Levitsky and Daniel Ziblatt

  Two Harvard social scientists, studying history and contemporary events, share their frightening insights.