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Tag: World War II

  • Germany

Infrastructures of Memory

  • by Brianne M Wesolowski
  • Posted on December 4, 2018December 5, 2018

In the last several years, questions surrounding monuments that aim to memorialize Confederate-era actors and…

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  • France

The Nazi “Miracle”: Germany’s Unlikely Conquest of France

  • by Will Greer
  • Posted on July 17, 2018July 30, 2018

On August 23rd, 1939, as war between France and Germany loomed, a French soldier named…

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  • Germany

The Mirage of the Desert Fox: Erwin Rommel and the Whitewashing of the Nazi Past

  • by Will Greer
  • Posted on July 20, 2017August 13, 2017

Erwin Rommel comes as close to being a household name in America as a Nazi…

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  • Asian Americans

Pioneering the Pacific Rim: Baseball, California, and the Creation of Transpacific Trade

  • by Ryan Reft
  • Posted on April 9, 2015April 9, 2015

On September 1, 1964, Masanori Murakami threw a scoreless eighth inning for the San Francisco…

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  • 1950s

From Bauhaus to Your Mouse: Fred Turner’s Brilliant New Book on the Origins and Politics of Interactive Media

  • by Alex Sayf Cummings
  • Posted on May 22, 2014November 4, 2018

Democracy is a funny word.  In the strictest sense, it means “government by the people,”…

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  • East of East

Hicks Camp: A Mexican Barrio

  • by South El Monte Arts Posse
  • Posted on May 21, 2014May 21, 2014

“I remember the Queen was beautiful, and the parade came down from Hicks Camp to…

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