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19 May 2010
Jim Crow America: A Documentary History
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Marilyn Howard
Jim Crow America: A Documentary History
Catherine M. Lewis and J. Richard Lewis, eds.
University of Arkansas Press 2009
234 pp
Annotated Bibliography and Index

If slavery was the most pernicious...
12 May 2010
The invention of the Jewish people
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Jim Miles
Historians living within their own nations develop within the mythology peculiar to their nation, in which "various spheres of memory coalesced into an imagined universe representing the past." The historian is a combination of his own...
22 April 2010
Journey of a citizen
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Robert Koehler
Too much awareness is a tough burden to carry. I got an email the other day from a reader who opened up the deep, confusing paradox of being a citizen of the American empire.
“I read that 51 percent of our Federal taxes go to feed...
13 April 2010
Country Joe's
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Richard S. Ehrlich
BANGKOK, Thailand -- When Country Joe and The Fish performed their famous satirical protest song "Fixin' To Die" during the 1960s, they influenced many people to oppose America's disastrous Vietnam War. Today, Barry "The Fish" Melton...
30 March 2010
Soul of a Citizen's new edition is out - Academic exam copies of a wholly updated book to get your students more involved
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Paul Loeb
Assigned on hundreds of campuses in every conceivable discipline and from first-year programs to graduate seminars, Paul Loeb’s Soul of a Citizen has become a classic of civic engagement. An antidote to the sense of political powerlessness...
26 March 2010
Frank Olson, Enemy Combatant
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David Swanson
If you haven't read "A Terrible Mistake: The Murder of Frank Olson and the CIA's Secret Cold War Experiments," by H.P. Albarelli Jr., I recommend doing so right away.  Read every word, cover to cover.  You will initially conclude that I,...

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