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History Bites

History Bites

One Reichstag Fire After Another

The Trump administration continues provoking — and killing — American citizens who are exercising their constitutional rights.

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History Bites

Saying Goodbye to a Bad Year – Again

The December 27, 1973, front page of the Village Voice echoes our own moment, 52 years later.

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SEVEN DECADES

Dirty Words on the Boob Tube: Cable TV in 1971 Presaged Our Current Age of Babble-On

Manhattan cable TV in the ’70s was a harbinger of today’s social media hurly-burly.

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VOICE CHOICE

‘Blacklisted: An American Story’ Reveals Past As Prologue

An exhibition of artifacts from the mid-20th century at the New York Historical offers plenty of warnings about Trump and MAGA today.

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History Bites

Back to the Future: Frederick Douglass’s 4th of July Barn Burner

In 1852, the former slave and forever abolitionist called out America’s basest hypocrisies.

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THE FRONT

Memories of ‘Phantom Utopias’ Are Paving the Way for Fascism Around the Globe 

Recent books reveal how current dictators and wannabe autocrats use revisionist histories to gloss over the bad old days of European despotism.

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History Bites

Fighting Fires: A 1989 Billy Joel Hit Would Include Cory Booker’s Stemwinder and Democracy Marchers Today

Led by a coalition of labor unions, veterans, and civil rights, LGBTQ+, and women’s rights orgs, this past weekend’s nationwide “Hands Off!” protests attracted millions.

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