recent history 
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SOURCE: Governing
12/21/2020
Has Twitter Changed How History Will See This Era?
Carole McGranahan, a professor of history and anthropology, says that social media need to be taken seriously as sources of insight into the actions of prominent and anonymous people alike, and need to be preserved as sources.
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5/31/2020
Disruption and Resilience: Lessons from the Ancient History of the 2000s
by Garrett Peck
The history of the 2000s is a story of human resilience in the face of crisis. We must find ways to respond to disruption with mutual care and creativity.
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5/17/2020
Hong Kong Apocalypses: Teaching the Recent Past and the Speculative Future
by James Carter
The chaos of Hong Kong's recent protests and the Coronavirus unsettled a historian's sense of the boundary between past and present. Perhaps we understand either only through the mirror of the other.
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SOURCE: Society of U.S. Intellectual History
1/7/20
U-USIH Examines the Biggest Developments of the Past Decade
by Tim Lacy
A Decade in Review: Cultural Markers, Keywords, and Other (Totally Subjective) Noteworthy Things
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SOURCE: Time
9/10/19
9/11 Is History Now. Here's How American Kids Are Learning About It in Class
by Olivia B. Waxman
Textbooks are not the go-to resource for learning about 9/11 in 2019.
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