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WEBIn the aftermath of the Tucson shootings, many have focused on the death of nine-year-old Christina-Taylor Green. Born on 9/11 and killed by the random violence of a madman, Green has become a martyr for optimistic bipartisanship. “I want us to live up to her expectations,” President Barack Obama told the mourners in Tucson. “I want our democracy to be as good as she imagined it.”Obama ...
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WEBThe Debt Ceiling Law is now a Tool of Partisan Political Power; Abolish It by Mark Weisbrot. There is no "ticking bomb" of national debt; the use of the debt ceiling to threaten the nation with default to secure spending cuts that damage Democratic presidents is by now a clearly established partisan trick, and the US government should no longer be held hostage to it, says an economic policy ...
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WEBSam Wineburg's "Reading Like a Historian" makes cover of Stanford magazine. Sam Wineburg, Margaret Jacks Professor of Education and (courtesy) History, is the director of the Stanford History Education Group.
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WEBWriting a Classic: Richard Tregaskis and "Guadalcanal Diary" by Ray E. Boomhower. Combat reporter Richard Tregaskis's account of the August 1942 Marine invasion of Guadalcanal in the Solomon Islands passed military censors and became a popular sensation while offering the public an account of the difficulty and brutality of the Pacific war.
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WEBWhat a Japanese-American soldier’s thirty-year secret can teach us about race, war, and loyalty by Sandra Vea. Interpreters with the Military Intelligence Service (MIS) during WW2 were credited for shortening the war in the South Pacific by two years.
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