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+ August Landmesser,  Cold Crematorium: Reporting from the Land of Auschwitz, holocaust, József Debreczeni, martin luther king, jr, world war ii

How Do Individuals Descend Into Brutal Savagery? Part II

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In Cold Crematorium: Reporting from the Land of Auschwitz, József Debreczeni provides a detailed and graphic recounting of his time in Nazi concentration camps during 1944–1945. While in Eule, Debreczeni speaks with other individuals about the ease with which people fall into savagery, becoming part and parcel of the atrocities, violence, and murder enacted against their neighbors. Debreczeni contemplates how people who have given the … Read More How Do Individuals Descend Into Brutal Savagery? Part II

+ american history, graphic novels, history, james loewen, lies my teacher told me, nate powell

We Must Critically Engage With the Past or We Are Doomed to Repeat It

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In order to understand the present and prepare for the future, we must understand the past and the ways that the past impact the present. As Frederick Douglas put it in his 1852 speech What to the Slave is the Fourth of July?, “We have to do with the past only as we can make it useful to the present and to the future.” When … Read More We Must Critically Engage With the Past or We Are Doomed to Repeat It

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+ american dream, graphic novels, history, james loewen, lies my teacher told me, nate powell

The Myth of Opportunity in History Textbooks

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The myth of opportunity in America runs deep, so deep in fact you’d be forgiven if you thought it appeared as the American Dream in the founding documents. It’s an old myth, one rooted in Puritanism and the Protestant Work Ethic, transformed by Benjamin Franklin in his autobiography, extrapolated by Horatio Alger in his Ragged Dick stories, epitomized by Jay Gatz in F. Scott … Read More The Myth of Opportunity in History Textbooks

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+ Angelo Soliman, flights, october revolution 1848, Olga Tokarczuk, Phillip Verheyen

Angelo Soliman’s Importance in Olga Tokarczuk’s “Flights”

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Talking about the physical body, Dr. Blau, in Olga Tokarczuk’s Flights, says, “It is an outrage that it’s permitted to disintegrate underground, or given to the mercy of flames, burned like rubbish. If it were up to Blau, he would make the world differently — the soul could be mortal, what do we need it for, anyway, but the body would be immortal.” For Blau, … Read More Angelo Soliman’s Importance in Olga Tokarczuk’s “Flights”

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+ american history, angela davis, civil rights, history, montgomrey, pauli murray

Our Role in the Relay of “Cosmic Composition”

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Writing about how their time in Washington D.C. and at Howard University drew to a close in the early 1940s, Pauli Murray reflected on all the work they did, notably the 1943 sit-ins in the nation’s capital and how those sit-ins laid the foundations for the 1960s. Murray thinks about the tensions between their “urge toward kamikaze defiance of Jim Crow and the more … Read More Our Role in the Relay of “Cosmic Composition”

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