| | By Made by History / Produced by Olivia B. Waxman | In a press conference this week at the White House with South African President Cyril Ramaphosa, President Donald Trump repeated some Afrikaners' claims to be undergoing a "genocide"—a far-right conspiracy with no grounding in fact. The Trump Administration has used this idea to justify welcoming a number of white South Africans as refugees to the U.S. even as it halts the resettlement of other refugees. As Professor Joel Cabrita writes in Made by History, these gestures can be understood as the latest in a longer history. When apartheid was instituted in 1948, the U.S. stood by South Africa as a key Cold War ally in the fight against communism over the following decades. It was only with tremendous grass roots effort that the U.S. later placed sanctions on South Africa, and then, only over the objections of President Ronald Reagan. This history shows that Trump's elevation of white Afrikaners' claims of persecution fits within a longer trajectory of U.S. support for white South Africans. | |
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| | | | | |  | How the Trump Administration May Redefine Human Rights | Upending decades of precedence, the Trump Administration will exclude key information from reports on human rights. |
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|  | The History of Government Influence Over Universities | During the Cold War, the government relied on universities for research, but also saw scholars as dangerous. |
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|  | The SAVE Act Could Threaten Voting Access—And Repeat History | The 1907 Expatriation Act made it impossible for some women born in the U.S. to vote. |
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|  | The Burning of Nottoway Plantation | A fire at the Nottoway Plantation raises an important question: how do we treat locations with heinous histories? |
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|  | The Overlooked Black History of Memorial Day | Historians like the Pulitzer Prize winner David Blight have tried to raise awareness of freed slaves who decorated soldiers' graves in 1865 |
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|  | Where Is the Official Birthplace of Memorial Day? | Experts dug up 19th century newspaper clips revealing the real birthplace |
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| | | | This week in 1976: the Catholic church |  | The May 24, 1976, cover of TIME |
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| "[It] is still a questing and divided church, troubled by colliding purposes and visions. An increasing number of lay people (themselves split on such issues as social action and piety, tradition and change) call themselves Catholic but are resentful of the church's authority over their private lives…Nowhere is the division more spectacular than on the issue of birth control. In 1968 Pope Paul VI issued his encyclical Humanae vitae, explicitly telling Catholics they were forbidden to use artificial methods of contraception. In 1974 a study of American Catholics showed that fully 83% did not accept such teaching. Moreover, attendance at weekly Mass dropped from 71% in 1963 to 50% in 1974; monthly confession, from 38% to 17%." |
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| | This week in 2002: Spider-Man |  | The May 20, 2002, cover of TIME |
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| "Spidey has shrewdly fine-tuned the rules about moviemaking, marketing and distribution. It also marks the beginning of what is sure to be the biggest moviegoing summer ever. We yearn for mass events, and no one has figured out how to create them better than the movies. The movie business, more than ever, is the blockbuster business–the big money is in getting everyone to see your movie in its first week and then feeding them sequels and T shirts and theme-park rides and bonus-packed DVDs as reminiscence. Because there are a limited number of blockbusters a year, they are the only form of entertainment that still seems special." |
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| This week in 2013: Millennials |  | The May 20, 2013, cover of TIME |
| Photograph by Andrew B. Myers for TIME; Styling by Joelle Litt |
| "They are the most threatening and exciting generation since the baby boomers brought about social revolution, not because they're trying to take over the Establishment but because they're growing up without one. The Industrial Revolution made individuals far more powerful–they could move to a city, start a business, read and form organizations. The information revolution has further empowered individuals by handing them the technology to compete against huge organizations: hackers vs. corporations, bloggers vs. newspapers, terrorists vs. nation-states, YouTube directors vs. studios, app-makers vs. entire industries. Millennials don't need us. That's why we're scared of them." |
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