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Germans ponder “All Quiet on the Western Front”
December 6, 2010People left a movie theater in Berlin mostly silent and deeply moved though the film they had seen was first released in 1930. This American-made epic had lost none of its extremely emotional appeal. It was...
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“Secession balls” in 2010?
December 3, 2010There were two stories about the beginnings of the Civil War this week: Georgia acknowledges slavery, while neo-Confederates ignore it.
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Dr. Margaret Burroughs, 1917-2010: What will your legacy be?
November 22, 2010A founder of one of the oldest African American history museums in the country has died.
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2010 elections continue 1960s battles
October 26, 2010This election and the rage connected to it (racist and anti-immigrant especially) are traceable to the 1960s and the right-wing class warfare that followed.
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“The Backlash”: eye-opening field trip to the far right
October 26, 2010"The Backlash" takes us on a trip to the strip-malls, mountain hollows and exurban living rooms where reactionary populism takes root and grows.
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