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The lesson of the 555th Parachute Infantry Battalion for African Americans is a sadly familiar one: proving oneself is not enough; becoming members of a select fraternity was not enough to earn the respect and equality that comes with full citizenship. I had two articles that I wanted to write. One was all about white supremacy and memory and the other was about lies and memory. And then I looked at those projects and it eventually dawned o... In the conclusion of his two-part analysis of William Barr s actions as Attorney General, former prosecutor James Zirin argues that Barr has hitched his office completely to the Trump Train. As fans mourned Elvis at Graceland,the National Enquirer came to Memphis and got the coffin shot that sold 6.7 million copies. Roberto Lovato s new book Unforgetting: examines how policing in the United States, including a combined crackdown on immigration and gang activity led by William Barr after the 1992 Los Angeles riots, helped create MS-13 as a transnational criminal gang and a political symbol of fear to be exploited in election years. In 1840, Democrat Martin Van Buren ran for re-election without a running mate, having never embraced the eccentricRichard Mentor Johnson of Kentucky, the man chosen by Senate Democrats to serve as his Vice President. Beginning with Johnson s failed bid for the presidency in 1840, only two of sixteen Democratic Vice Presidents became President, and none came to office by election. The history of ethnic studies as an academic movement is a cycle of rise and retrenchment; protest movements often push for more representative curricula, while forces of tradition and austerity seek to uphold a canon or push majors linked directly to the job market. Today s protest movements are pushing an ethnic studies renaissance despite the dire financial straits of many colleges and students. Anne Applebaum s new book looks with concern at the rise of right-wing populism in Europe and the loyal party functionaries who enable its march. Voters in November may reverse California s constitutional ban on affirmative action, which was passed by ballot measure in 1996. The state s electorate has changed considerably in a quarter century and passage seems likely. On Labor Day, remember the demands of striking textile workers in Lawrence, Massachusetts. Working people deserve more than bare subsistence; they re entitled to dignity and pleasure too. Not every state has a sufficiently particular identity to sustain a culture of jokes about its inhabitants and their relationship to outsiders. Vermont does. The top opinion writing by historians and about history from around the web this week. In 1942, the British government endorsed a plan that turned the Blitz into an opportunity for massive centrally-planned rebuilding of London. This was a break from the previous anarchic pattern of development, and, for better or worse, today s eclectic metropolis owes its formto the failure of the plan. The dedication in 1886 of a monument to the Maryland 2nd Confederate Regiment at Gettysburg launched the movement by southern partisans to lay claim to the site of the Union victory as a monument to national reconciliation. The Grand Army of the Republic organization wasn t buying it then, and we shouldn t today. Digging beneath the aesthetics of punk to find its politics, Kevin Mattson s new book finds a counterculture of suburban youths who identified the unrestrained capitalism of the Reagan era as the true nihilism threatening America. Supreme Courtdecisionsbased on text without context have been responsible for some of the greatest perversions of justice in United States history, mostly around denying the scope of authority the 14th Amendment grants to the government to enforce civil equality. Despite boasting of his accomplishments for working Americans, Trump s record amounts to more of the same: union busting, stagnant wages, unsafe workplaces, long hours, no vacation time, and even child labor. In a rush to dunk on Joy Behar for being clueless about George Washington s practices as a slaveowner, John Oliver flattened the story himself; reading Mary V. Thompson s book would help everyone speak with more authority. Former federal prosecutor James Zirin begins a two-part assessment of William Barr s tenure as Attorney General by explaining how the job was created and how its powers and duties were defined. The COVID-19 pandemic shows thatAmerican political culture has embraced individualism at the expense of our ability to imagine and act for the common good. It s necessary to go back to the time of the Great Depression, rationing and wartime austerity to see a generational experience like that of Gen Z. Will this formative time lead to a future of political consensus and social solidarity? The top op eds by historians and/or about history from around the web this week. Women of color and their allies truly won the right to vote for all American women not in 1920, but in 1965, with the passage of the Voting Rights Act. The behavior of belligerent patriots in our times has made it clear that the type of allegiance they value most--and their image of America--leaves little room for an ethic of mutualism or compassion. As we remember John Hume and John Lewis, we should find inspiration to continue their struggle. The diary of a German Social Democrat and local official who observed and opposed the Third Reich offers a warning about today s unleashed online anger. Joe Biden s efforts to run an effective campaign under COVID lockdown echo the innovations forced on James Garfield. If Biden succeeds, the Basement Campaign may prove as influential as the Front Porch Campaign of 1880. Franklin Roosevelt recognized that the concentrated economic power of big businesses was a threat to democratic society and a step on the road to fascism, and wasn t afraid to say it. In a moment in which Confederate monuments are finally coming down and we are re-thinking how we tell our history,Hamiltonis a sign of hope. It s a sign that while history is something we can never resign from, wecanalways enter the narrative and, like Eliza, construct a history of our own. Evangelical leaders have bent and twisted their proclaimed moral precepts so far to embrace Donald Trump that they risk forfeiting any claim to moral authority and becoming a mere reactionary ident... One thing that John Adamsnever did was to voice a word of regret about leaving the presidency at his term s end.None of his successors has ever violated or dishonored the precedent he established. And, if we are fortunate, none ever will. With unification, a fundamental break with the values of the East German Communist Partywas necessary. Former East German soldiers would now belong to an army of a democracy, rooted in the concept of the citizen in uniform. A comparison between Trump and Charles I of England suggests not only that the coming election will be rocky, but that it may take a long time to bridge the divisions in American society. It might be time to consider how a desperate Donald Trump might execute a fascist putsch, just in case, argues Richard Striner. The Trump presidency is a stern test of James Madison s design for a government that could govern without becoming tyrannical. The people and the ballot may be the last of Madison s checks and balances left. The late Congressman John Lewis and Donald Trump offer two starkly divergent versions of the American Dream--a choice between nurturing community and freedom and acquisitive materialism. The top op eds by historians or about history from around the web this week.

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