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Articles on Charlottesville attack
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Ryan Kelly’s iconic photograph from Charlottesville evokes a ‘Unite the Right’ moment from 1937 – and the anti-war masterpiece by Picasso that emerged from it.
Good songs are like good poetry. Literature professor Robert Morrison reflects on The Tragically Hip’s best song, “Ahead by a Century,” and explains the politics of hope within the tune.
Trump is a master of using anger to motivate his base. An anti-terrorism researcher explains how to stem the tide.
The alt-right is trying to subvert America’s history of opposition to fascism.
The violence sparked by the removal of Confederate statues in the US shows the ideas that collect around historical monuments. Sometimes it’s better to remove them; yet they can be an important way of remembering trauma.
East London collective Boy Blue Entertainment have taken their provocative show to the Edinburgh International Festival.
One white educator reflects on the challenges, and the urgency, of tackling white supremacy in schools and on campuses in every country
Robert E. Lee is one of the most memorialised figures of the American civil war. Here’s why that causes so much anger.
The violence in Charlottesville affects all children, but racially motivated attacks make children of color feel particularly vulnerable. Here are some ways to protect them.
Having stoked white resentment for his own benefit throughout his campaign, Trump is still emboldening it.
The United States is seeing an uptick in far-right extremist violence. It’s time to pay more attention to this scourge and its causes.
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Director of Security Studies and Professor of Criminology and Justice Studies, UMass Lowell
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Associate Professor, Department of Educational Studies, University of British Columbia
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Instructor, Division of Academic General Pediatrics, Mary Ann & J. Milburn Smith Child Health Research Program; Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago; Department of Pediatrics, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University
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Senior Lecturer, Department of Media and Communication, Swinburne University of Technology
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Adjunct Professor at the School for Conflict Analysis and Resolution, George Mason University
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Visiting Research Fellow University of Chester, University of Chester
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British Academy Global Professor, Queen's University, Ontario
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Senior Lecturer in Modern American History, Nottingham Trent University
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Co-Director, Institute for Genocide and Mass Atrocity Prevention, Professor, Department of Philosophy, Binghamton University, State University of New York
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Senior Lecturer in History, University of Exeter
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Senior lecturer, School of Governance, University of the Witwatersrand
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Co-Director, Institute for Genocide and Mass Atrocity Prevention, and Professor of Public Administration, Binghamton University, State University of New York
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Professor of History, University of Washington
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Senior Lecturer, School of Communication, International Studies and Languages, University of South Australia
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Sherman Fairchild Distinguished Professor of History, Dartmouth College
