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The Ninth Amendment: (all unallocated) power to the people! | The Historic Present
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History in Today’s News. Lincoln, Slavery, and Racism. Truth v. Myth: The Declaration of Independence. The Ninth Amendment: (all unallocated) power to the people! July 30, 2015. Filed under: Bill of Rights. Innocent until proven guilty. In part ten of our series on what’s in the Bill of Rights. We land on the Ninth Amendment, which is a harbinger of the Tenth and final amendment in that it is a portmanteau amendment: a short sentence packed with meaning. Next time: the end of the road. Truth v. Myth.
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Trench Fever: Hitting the headlines
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The thoughts, links and projects of a First World War historian. Friday, March 17, 2006. All of us, as practitioners of an evidence based profession, used to rigorous critical thinking, will be annoyed when we see the past being used illogically or inadequately to justify current policy (think of the resonance of 'appeasement'), or to make a quick buck without regard to the historical record (was about to link there, but might just check with my lawyer). And the Carnival of Bad History. A major problem f...
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String between Pearls: The Bright Lights of Midnight
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A wide-eyed student of history writing on research, travel, and this miscellaneous world. The Bright Lights of Midnight. Yesterday I went with a pal from high school days to see Woody Allen's not-so-new release, Midnight in Paris. Is certainly of a much more modest scale and scope of ambition. I've always found Woody Allen movies kind of.creepy. No doubt part of that is an (unfair? And Love and Death. But The Purple Rose of Cairo. Has a lot of the familiar Woody Allen elements. It's a movie that, in ...
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String between Pearls: 2009/03
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A wide-eyed student of history writing on research, travel, and this miscellaneous world. Yuan Mei my homeboy strikes again. With a short story encapsulating so neatly the class- and language-barrier crossing legal culture of eighteenth-century China that I can barely move. The Real Longtu Turns Out To Be A False Longtu"*. Blindly sentencing the adulterers as murderers,. A real "Longtu" turned out to be a fake. A warning to the people who rule us commoners,. Even if not corrupt, you pay for a mistake.
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String between Pearls: There was no Crab Rangoon...
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A wide-eyed student of history writing on research, travel, and this miscellaneous world. There was no Crab Rangoon. That concoction is pure Orientalist-Imperialist-Colonialist bunk! Though undeniably tasty.). A Happy New Year to my dear hypothetical readers! E, loads of. Freely elected government, absence of. Petite, steely-eyed Nobel Peace Prize laureate, name of. Villainous foe of King Mongkut’s Thailand in The King and I, appearance as. Very, very shiny. That was the Myanmar countryside, anyhow, and ...
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Politics | The Historic Present
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History in Today’s News. Lincoln, Slavery, and Racism. Truth v. Myth: The Declaration of Independence. George Washington didn’t show his tax returns. March 6, 2017. What History is For. 8230;yes, this statement was made on national television last week, in an interview that Bill Maher conducted with Trump supporter and virtual spokesman Jeffrey Lord. Who answered Maher’s demand that the current president show his tax returns “as all presidents have done in my lifetime” in this way:. Those who would defen...
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American history | The Historic Present
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History in Today’s News. Lincoln, Slavery, and Racism. Truth v. Myth: The Declaration of Independence. Alt-right and other peculiar institutions. January 5, 2017. Filed under: American history. There was a story on the radio a while ago about the term “alt-right” that said in part:. Ian Haney Lopez, UC Berkeley] says use of the term alt-right is an effort to make white supremacist views more palatable. HEIDI BEIRICH: If you said I’m white supremacist, you weren’t going to get talked to. S...It’s a ...
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alt-right | The Historic Present
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History in Today’s News. Lincoln, Slavery, and Racism. Truth v. Myth: The Declaration of Independence. Alt-right and other peculiar institutions. January 5, 2017. Filed under: American history. There was a story on the radio a while ago about the term “alt-right” that said in part:. Ian Haney Lopez, UC Berkeley] says use of the term alt-right is an effort to make white supremacist views more palatable. HEIDI BEIRICH: If you said I’m white supremacist, you weren’t going to get talked to. S...It’s a ...
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George Washington Farewell Address | The Historic Present
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History in Today’s News. Lincoln, Slavery, and Racism. Truth v. Myth: The Declaration of Independence. President Obama’s Farewell Address. January 13, 2017. George Washington Farewell Address. And our series on Ronald Reagan’s 1989 farewell address. Both are instances of important farewell addresses. Both warn the American people against dangers and urge them to preserve what America stands for (though they could not possibly be more different in how they define each of those categories). Thank you, ever...
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Reagan’s Farewell Address, 1989 | The Historic Present
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History in Today’s News. Lincoln, Slavery, and Racism. Truth v. Myth: The Declaration of Independence. Reagan’s Farewell Address, 1989. March 19, 2015. Filed under: American history. What History is For. Well, let’s get to the speech:. This is the 34th time I’ll speak to you from the Oval Office and the last. We’ve been together 8 years now, and soon it’ll be time for me to go. But before I do, I wanted to share some thoughts, some of which I’ve been saving for a long time. 8212;and all thanks to Reagan.
