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Friday Nite Videos | November 25, 2022

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Howard Zinn and Voices of a People’s History. Qatar World Cup | John Oliver. The Torch | The Story of Buddy Guy. The Global Movement To Restore Nature's Biodiversity. Fox News Finally Abandons Trump.

Contest or Conquest?

Daniel Immerwahr Harpers Magazine
A provocative history of Indigenous America. How best to tell the story of oppressed peoples? By chronicling the hardships they’ve faced? Or by highlighting their triumphs over adversity?

Friday Nite Videos | November 4, 2022

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Obama Campaigns Against Kari Lake and Warns About Threats to Democracy. Till | Movie. Why Self-Driving Cars Have Stalled. Long Covid: A Parallel Pandemic. Why This Instrument Explains Black American Folk Music.

Why I Keep Coming Back to Reconstruction

Jamelle Bouie New York Times
Du Bois’s mode of analysis in "Black Reconstruction" can help us look past so much of the ephemera of our politics to focus on the roles of power, privilege and, most important, capital in shaping our political order and structuring our conflicts.

This Halloween, Lessons From the Salem Witch Trials

Anna K. Danziger Halperin History News Network
The Salem witch trials of 1692 were a defining example of intolerance and injustice in American history. Twenty five innocent women, men, and children lost their lives. When confronted with injustice in our lives today, what role will we play?
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