social media

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• SOURCE: Academe Blog
  10/13/2020
  

  Demon vs. Monster: The Vice-Presidential Debate and an Historian’s Harassment

  by Hank Reichman

  Experience suggests that when institutions issue these kinds of condemnatory statements the harassers are only encouraged to push harder, says Hank Reichman, Chair of the American Association of Univrersity Professors Committee A on Academic Freedom and Tenure.

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• SOURCE: Made By History at The Washington Post
  9/23/2020
  

  Trump’s TikTok Deal Shows how Trade with China is Woven into the American DNA

  by Sean Fraga

  "Americans’ beliefs about the value of transpacific trade informed every aspect of the transcontinental railroads. This history shows how deeply trade with China is woven into the American fabric and suggests President Trump’s hostility toward China is unlikely to outlast his administration."

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• SOURCE: Bloomberg
  9/20/2020
  

  Trump Wants $5 Billion From TikTok Deal for History Project

  This announcement continues a Trump tradition of claiming other nations will pay for domestic culture war projects. 

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• SOURCE: Huffington Post
  8/27/2020
  

  Lara Trump Seems To Have Gotten Her Abraham Lincoln Quote From A Meme — And It’s Wrong

  Lincoln may have once shared the sentiment, just not the actual words.

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• SOURCE: Washingtonian
  8/24/2020
  

  Are Your Tweets Historic? Meet the Librarians Who Decide.

  The Library of Congress's Web Department works to archive tweets and ephemeral websites that are significant to today's society so they are not lost to history. 

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• SOURCE: Forward
  8/18/2020
  

  How Can Youtube and Reddit Successfully Fight Holocaust Denial, But Not Facebook?

  A new report from the Institute for Strategic Dialogue found 36 Facebook groups specifically dedicated to Holocaust denial.

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• SOURCE: Business Insider
  7/31/2020
  

  Twitter Has Shut Down Former KKK Leader David Duke's Account

  A Twitter spokesperson confirmed the suspension saying the account has been "permanently suspended for repeated violations of the Twitter Rules on hateful conduct."

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• 7/19/2020
  

  A Historian's Reflections on American Dissent

  by Ralph Young

  At a time like this one longs for a Gandhi or a King to come along and show us the way. Or a Lincoln or a Roosevelt who took up the challenge of leading the United States through existential crises. But I don't see that happening. Not in 2020. Not on the federal level.

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• SOURCE: Lead Stories
  4/27/2020
  

  Fact Check: NO Evidence Presidents Lincoln And Kennedy Were Assassinated For Trying To End Federal Reserve

  There is no evidence that both Lincoln and Kennedy were assassinated because they wanted to destroy the Federal Reserve system (which also did not exist in Lincoln's day).   

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• SOURCE: Perspectives on History
  4/13/2020
  

  If You Charge Facts With Bias, Historians Are Guilty

  by John Broich

  How should historians behave in response to an active movement aiming to paint them as partisans seeking points in a zero-sum game?

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• SOURCE: The Washington Post
  11/12/2019
  

  The key to defeating the far right’s online hate

  by Michelle Kelley

  “History provides lessons on how to pit popular culture against Internet hate speech and racist propaganda.”

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• SOURCE: The Guardian
  11/5/19
  

  Teens are making historical events go viral on TikTok

  The most powerful videos use human beings to personify world actors – such as countries – in major historical events.

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• SOURCE: The Chronicle of Higher Education
  7/3/2019
  

  ‘Uncharted Territory’: For Historians Navigating Online Hate, a Scholarly Association Offers a Map

  The harassment directed toward scholars online isn’t slowing down.

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• SOURCE: Slate
  6/19/19
  

  Historians Luke Fernandez and Susan Matt ask: Has Technology Made Us Bored, Lonely, Angry, Stupid?

  by Rebecca Onion

  A new book takes a historical look at how tech affects our collective mental state—and somehow, it’s not tedious.

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• SOURCE: NY Times
  4/30/19
  

  A Holocaust Story for the Social Media Generation

  Eva’s Instagram account, based on a diary kept by the real Eva Heyman in 1944, goes live Wednesday afternoon for the start of Israel’s annual Holocaust Martyrs’ and Heroes’ Remembrance Day.

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• SOURCE: Salon
  4/22/19
  

  Resistance can't be tweeted: Social and political change is built on reading

  by Jim Sleeper

  What's the value of liberal education? Without intellectual exploration, we'll never make a better world.

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• SOURCE: Time
  3/20/19
  

  The Story of the Dionne Quintuplets Is a Cautionary Tale for the Age of ‘Kidfluencers’

  by Shelley Wood

  The pitfalls and payoffs of advertising directly to children have consumed psychologists, pediatricians, marketers and anxious parents for the better part of a century, but the ethics of using children and babies for product endorsement has received much less attention.

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• SOURCE: AP
  6-22-18
  

  Social media is the new heart of political protests

  Have America’s protests changed so they rely more on the masses and less on one captivating leader? The answer, some experts say, is yes.

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• SOURCE: The Washington Post
  3-28-18 (accessed)
  

  Niall Ferguson says we should be alarmed by the polarization associated with social media

  In a fascinating interview he sees dangerous parallels between the birth of the printing press and the establishment off social media.

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• SOURCE: The Washington Post
  3-15-18
  

  How social media spread a historical lie

  A mix of journalistic mistakes and partisan hackery advanced a pernicious lie about Democrats and the Klan.