| | By Made by History / Produced by Olivia B. Waxman | With his March 27 Executive Order on American history, President Donald Trump has taken aim at scholars whose work reckons honestly with complex, and even painful, parts of our history. As the scholar Elizabeth R. Varon writes in Made by History, attacks on truthful history can allow dangerous myths to flourish and to distort our shared understanding of the past. This week marked the anniversary of General Robert E. Lee's surrender at Appomattox, an event that has often been misremembered as a moment of selflessness in service of reconciliation. But this mythic understanding of the end of the Civil War has obscured the real history of ongoing battles to secure African American civil rights during Reconstruction, and how the propaganda of the "Lost Cause" ideology helped reinforce white supremacy. There is power in dispelling harmful myths by striving to tell fuller, more accurate histories—not just ones that celebrate American greatness. | |
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| | | | | |  | The History Behind Canadian Boycotts of American Whiskey | A global marketplace has shaped the U.S. whiskey industry for a century, even as it brands itself distinctly American. |
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|  | The Danger of Adjusting State Borders | A movement for some Illinois counties to join Indiana threatens to resurrect an ominous practice from the 19th century. |
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|  | How Newspapers Struggled to Cover Segregation in the North | Media outlets that praised Martin Luther King Jr.'s work in the South treated Northern segregation differently. |
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|  | What the AI Generation Can Learn from the Dotcom Bust | The AI industry is experiencing a hope and hype cycle similar to the one witnessed during the dotcom bust. |
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| | | | | This week in 1964: Barbra Streisand |  | The April 10, 1964, cover of TIME |
| Henry Koerner |
| "'I never took part in any school activities or anything,' Barbra remembers. 'I was never asked out to any of the proms, and I never had a date for New Year's Eve. I was pretty much of a loner. I was very independent. I never needed anybody, really.'...When she was 14, she made her first trip out of Brooklyn—a subway ride to Manhattan to see The Diary of Anne Frank. 'I remember thinking that I could go up on the stage and play any role without any trouble at all,' she says. After school at home, she used to smoke in the bathroom and do cigarette commercials into the mirror, but she never bothered to go out for school plays. 'Why go out for an amateurish high school production when you can do the real thing?'" |
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| | This week in 1973: rising food prices |  | The April 9, 1973, cover of TIME |
| TIME |
| "Fed up with rising food prices, outraged by advice from various Washington officials to eat fish, eat cheese, or just eat less, thousands of women took to the streets in protest. In scores of cities and towns, they demonstrated, paraded, picketed, pamphleteered and badgered politicians. They cut down their purchases of meat, pledged meatless Tuesdays and Thursdays and, in an all-out boycott planned for this week, threatened to buy no steaks, chops, roasts or hamburger at all. In riposte, some farm leaders said that they would hold their animals off the market, thus creating an artificial shortage to keep prices propped up." |
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| This week in 2014: Mad Men |  | The April 7, 2014, cover of TIME |
| Alex Majoli-Magnum for TIME |
| "Mad Men is a period piece, but one where the past haunts the present and the present haunts the past. It resonates with themes as old as the frontier and as current as today's gender politics…Mad Men's calendar is just about out of pages. It's finishing up its time-lapse tour of a decade of American change through American culture. And it's wrapping up its run as the signature show of a period in which the same kind of people who used to say 'I don't even own a television' were now arguing whether film and novels could even compete with TV drama. In more ways than one, the end of Mad Men will be the end of an era." |
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