democracy

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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.

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• SOURCE: TechCrunch
  12-25-2018
  

  What history could tell Mark Zuckerberg

  Perhaps Mark Zuckerberg obsessed over the wrong bit of history.

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• 11-18-18
  

  This Is Telling: It’s Impossible to Imagine Donald Trump Giving the Gettysburg Address

  by Louis P. Masur

  It was 155 years ago that Lincoln delivered his paean to democracy and liberty.

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• SOURCE: NYT
  11-9-18
  

  Looking to History and Recent Events, German Leaders Defend Democracy and Pluralism

  Amid a resurgence of xenophobia that has reshaped Germany’s political landscape, the nation’s leaders warned that Germans must defend democracy to ensure that hate crimes like Kristallnacht, the Nazi-led burning of synagogues and plundering of Jewish shops 80 years ago, “never again” take place.

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• SOURCE: The Economist
  11-8-18
  

  Which countries are most likely to fight wars?

  Democracy and peace are linked, but the relationship is complex.

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• SOURCE: NYT
  11-10-18
  

  Can Europe’s Liberal Order Survive as the Memory of War Fades?

  As leaders commemorate the end of WWI, some of the same forces that threatened democracy and peace 100 years ago are resurgent today.

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• SOURCE: Smithsonian
  11-6-18
  

  Lessons in the Decline of Democracy From the Ruined Roman Republic

  Edward Watts argues in a new book that violent rhetoric and disregard for political norms was the beginning of Rome’s end.