Amateur history for (a) future historian(s)
Click here for the previous part of this series. Hitler the Revolutionary Socialist (continued)D’Souza continues his characterization of fascism with militarism and capitalism. On militarism, he cites Stanley Payne again, noting that Payne believed (wrongly, I think, but it’s possibly beside the point here) militarism was not an essential feature of fascism. D’Souza says, “I …
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Click here for the first part of this series. Hitler the Revolutionary Socialist When D’Souza broaches the person of Hitler and the topic of National Socialism directly in his book, he does so by focusing on by what he considers to be the key characteristics of Nazism. Because Trump is the focus on D’Souza’s treatment …
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Perhaps more than any other conservative commentator of the last decade, Dinesh D’Souza has made his name trying to pin the sins of racism, segregation, and terrorism on the political left. The brunt of his argument in Hillary’s America was that the Democratic Party is the party of slavery, the Ku Klux Klan, Jim Crow, …
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This post will probably be long and perhaps only tangentially connected to history, but it’s important, I think, to write down some things I’ve seen going on. I’m not alone in having seen these things, but perhaps can offer a perspective not yet put forward. My topics will be two, one specific and one general. …
While the Holocaust in Lithuania is a topic that has been covered extensively in the historical literature, one related event that occurred as this tragedy unfolded, i.e., the attempted coup against the Lithuanian Provisional Government (PG) in late July 1941, has received comparatively little attention. For those scholars who have examined the coup, the explanation …
There are essentially three trajectories in the historiography of the Holocaust in Lithuania that characterize the writing about the topic over the past seventy years: the transition from intentionalism to functionalism; the increasing availability of archival documents; and the issue of Lithuanian guilt. Our understanding of the Holocaust at large is one that has been …
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I’ve been incommunicado at this blog for some time, since I’ve not been enrolled in a history course this term. (Instead, I’ve been fulfilling a core requirement in Interdisciplinary Studies — a course on wellness, which is surprisingly interesting.) However, I gave an interview a couple of months ago to Matthew Buckley of Adelaide, Australia, …
On December 29, 1890, at least 150 Native Americans of the Miniconjou Lakota people, including 89 women and children, were massacred by troops from the U.S. 7th Cavalry Regiment under the command of Colonel James Forsyth. As news of the massacre spread east from Wounded Knee Creek on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in …
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I agree that, in the long run, busing helped Boston because it desegregated the school system, providing equal educational opportunity for minority students, and set the stage for racial healing and an improved racial climate in the twenty-first century. Regarding school desegregation, a ruling of the United States Court of Appeals for the First Circuit …
The effect of the assassination of Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. on the civil rights movement was profound because Dr. King was the most visible and most politically “acceptable” of the leaders of the movement to white Americans. There were a variety of consequences to his assassination, which were both immediate and more remote. …
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Inevitable Historicity