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Uncloaking a Lost Cause: Decolonizing ancestry estimation in the United States. [PDF]
DiGangi EA, Bethard JD.
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Consigning Injustice to History with Political Apologies
ABSTRACT Failures to remember the past properly can constitute a range of different wrongs. In this article, we identify a novel kind of wrong that often occurs through political apologies: consigning an injustice to history. Consigning acknowledges that a historical injustice took place but denies that it has any ongoing relevance for the present ...
Alfred Archer, Benjamin Matheson
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Resistance and Care in the Time of COVID-19: Archaeology in 2020. [PDF]
d'Alpoim Guedes J +2 more
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Confederate Continuation: The Visual Rhetoric of Confederate Monuments in Postmodernity
In early February 2019, former FBI Director James Comey published an op-ed in the Washington Post entitled “Take down the Confederate statues now.” Comey makes the case that Confederate memorials are not structures that honor the bravery of soldiers of ...
Swierczewski, Ethan Andrew
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Local Elites in Chile's Pisco Valley: Dispossession, Legal Mobilisation and Intertwined Citizenship
ABSTRACT In countries in the Global South, citizenship is often closely tied to access to water and land ownership. In Latin America, the literature has primarily explored social mobilisation and identity reconfiguration in response to development‐driven processes of land and water dispossession affecting peasants, rural and Indigenous communities ...
Chloé Nicolas‐Artero
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Disney's Auteur Problem: Framing Corporate Creativity in a Galaxy Far, Far Away
ABSTRACT At its core, Star Wars is a franchise George Lucas has led via his auteur vision. Since Lucas handed over the franchise reins to Disney, the company has courted several other auteurs to direct new entries in the series—each of those endeavors ended problematically.
Zachary Sheldon
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Abstract Across former colonies, the question of access to cultural heritage remains contested and constrained by the enduring legacies of colonialism. While physical restitution has been the subject of much debate, comparatively little attention has been paid to the legal structures governing control of cultural memory associated with said physical ...
Jade Kouletakis
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Victory or Repudiation? The Probability of the Southern Confederacy Winning the Civil War [PDF]
Historians have long wondered whether the Southern Confederacy had a realistic chance at winning the American Civil War. We provide some quantitative evidence on this question by introducing a new methodology for estimating the probability of winning a ...
Marc D. Weidenmier, Kim Oosterlinck
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The Sixth Scroll: The Ritualization of Israel's Declaration of Independence
ABSTRACT This article examines the ritualization of Israel's Declaration of Independence (2011–2025) as part of broader efforts by Israeli Jewish renewal organizations to craft a national counter‐narrative. It argues that reframing the Declaration as a quasi‐sacred text—situated within the Jewish traditional corpus and recited with Biblical ...
Adi Sherzer
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Making Boundaries: Polish Memory, Identity and the Ukrainian Other
ABSTRACT Political elites use historical references abundantly when drawing national boundaries. Despite the prominence of such language, we know little about the ways in which ordinary citizens internalise historical narratives of the Other to construct their national identity.
Félix Krawatzek
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