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‘Oppenheimer,’ Nuclear Amnesia, and the US Pacific Legacy
1 year, 1 month ago

‘Oppenheimer,’ Nuclear Amnesia, and the US Pacific Legacy

The Diplomat  

Since the release of the blockbuster film, “Oppenheimer,” in July 2023, global audiences have been confronting history about U.S. atomic weapons development and the individuals involved. Rather, his lengthy objections to the Bikini tests were about “the soundness of the tests” to enhance military understandings about the “effectiveness of atomic weapons in naval warfare.” Oppenheimer was also concerned about the …

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The New Justified Undoes a Perfect Ending. Is It Worth It?
1 year, 5 months ago

The New Justified Undoes a Perfect Ending. Is It Worth It?

Slate  

What does it mean when a show that ends perfectly decides to come back? Ever since FX announced it was bringing back TV’s coolest lawman, Raylan Givens, for the Justified revival City Primeval, this question has nagged at me. It was the end of the story Justified set out to tell, a final look at the question of whether it …

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Hulu's '1619 Project' creator 'proud' of Ron DeSantis attacks
1 year, 10 months ago

Hulu's '1619 Project' creator 'proud' of Ron DeSantis attacks

LA Times  

When “The 1619 Project” was released 3½ years ago, the ambitious reexamination of American history sparked difficult conversations about the legacy of slavery in the United States and earned praise for its creator, New York Times Magazine writer Nikole Hannah-Jones. “I can’t tell you how many times I watched that documentary.” “The 1619 Project” has now arrived on Hulu as …

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What does the 1989 Tiananmen crackdown mean for China's youth 33 years later?
2 years, 6 months ago

What does the 1989 Tiananmen crackdown mean for China's youth 33 years later?

ABC  

Unlike other Beijing kids, Steven Chen rarely went to Tiananmen Square with his parents when he was little. "Getting to know the Tiananmen movement changed my life, which pushed me to get out of Truman's world and push down the ideological Berlin Wall," he said. Not all of China's younger generation share Mr Chen's desire to know about the erased …

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Op-Ed: How four gangs in Watts brokered a historic peace treaty
2 years, 8 months ago

Op-Ed: How four gangs in Watts brokered a historic peace treaty

LA Times  

An OG or “original gangster” member of the Grape Street Crips shows off his tattoo. In April 1992 — days before unrest would erupt citywide after the police officers who beat Rodney King were acquitted — a small group of gang leaders and community organizers drafted an agreement to curtail endemic violence in South Los Angeles. Local activists and even …

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How Portugal silenced ‘centuries of violence and trauma’
3 years, 9 months ago

How Portugal silenced ‘centuries of violence and trauma’

Al Jazeera  

As a wet winter gives way to spring, Lisbon’s Campo das Cebolas Square is empty and quiet. “A lot of Portuguese people don’t even know that such a museum exists,” says Naky Gaglo, a historian and tour guide specialising in the 16th to 18th centuries. “People always think that the legal abolitionist movement started in Britain, in the late 18th …

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The smallpox-fighting virus squads that stormed tenements in the 19th century.
54 years, 11 months ago

The smallpox-fighting virus squads that stormed tenements in the 19th century.

Slate  

As the United States struggles to distribute and administer COVID-19 vaccines, we’re looking back at the history of vaccine rollouts in our country, including the logistical roadblocks to shots and communicating with a fearful public. There were epidemics at the time—in New York, Boston, New Orleans—where hundreds of people died, but there were also epidemics of a fast-spreading milder smallpox …

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ICE hysterectomy allegations evoke US history of forced sterilizations
4 years, 3 months ago

ICE hysterectomy allegations evoke US history of forced sterilizations

CNN  

CNN — Natalia Molina was shocked when she heard a whistleblower’s allegations about hysterectomies in ICE custody. “The story gained so much traction immediately with people, because there’s such a long history affecting many different racial and ethnic groups, across many institutions – mental health hospitals, public hospitals, prisons,” she says. LA County has apologized for forced sterilizations.” Sterilizations in …

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