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| America at 250: Has US history come full circle? | US historian Johann Neem has accused the president of acting against the spirit of the Revolutionary War. “Any continuity between the actual political meaning of the revolution and what Trump is doing to our constitution is false,” he recently told The Guardian. “The thing… |
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| Panorama internacional: ¿Cuál independencia celebra el EE.UU. de Donald Trump? | Esa displicencia e ignorancia ha tenido incluso extremos que rozaron el ridículo. Recordemos cuando afirmó con tono seguro en 2019 que en la guerra de la Independencia el ejército continental había tomado los aeropuertos, es decir, un siglo antes de la invención del vuelo humano. Colegas de… |
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| The American Revolution we need today | By Johann Neem For Americans, there is no more important event than the American Revolution. Not only did it establish the United States, but laid out, in the Declaration of Independence, the American creed. The Declaration pluckily stated that “… |
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| Le 250e anniversaire de l'indépendance va-t-il virer au fiasco pour Donald Trump ? | « Il est déchirant d’aborder ce 250e anniversaire en étant inquiet de nos divisions et de l’animosité qui nous oppose les uns aux autres », regrette l’historien américain Johann Neem, sur le site de la Société pour l’histoire intellectuelle des États-Unis. « Les… |
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| Le 250e anniversaire des États-Unis dans l’ombre de Donald Trump | « Trump a promis de raconter l’histoire de la grandeur américaine. Or, il s’agit en réalité d’une parodie de l’histoire véritable. Il a supprimé toute référence à l’histoire des Afro-Américains et des autres minorités, et il a refusé de reconnaître que le passé est complexe et comporte des… |
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| America Rings In its 250th, With Rifts Aplenty | The politically charged environment has challenged elected leaders and historians. As Johann Neem, a historian at Western Washington University put it: “If you’re not with Trump, how do we celebrate this?” “He wants to claim the Revolution as loyalty to him, and that’s… |
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| History’s Sarah Zarrow publishes ‘Displays of Belonging’ | |||
| San Francisco OKs Plan to Strip Lincoln and Washington From School Names | They were honored with grand memorials in the nation’s capital and hailed as two of the greatest American presidents but George Washington and Abraham Lincoln are no longer welcome as names of San Francisco public schools. The city’s board of education on Tuesday approved renaming 44… |
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| San Francisco OKs Plan to Strip Lincoln and Washington From School Names | They were honored with grand memorials in the nation’s capital and hailed as two of the greatest American presidents but George Washington and Abraham Lincoln are no longer welcome as names of San Francisco public schools. The city’s board of education on Tuesday approved renaming 44… |
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| Western Research Recap for Jan. 25 |