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• History Professor Benjamin Hett on the Reichstag Fire

  The Mystery of the Reichstag Fire (original in German)
  Die Welt, 5.24.15 Read more

• Michelle Chan on Subtle Forms of Force Applied to Blacks in Classrooms

  Devaluation of Black Lives Starts in Classrooms
  Live Leak.com blog, 5.9.15 Read more

• Lindsay Sarah Krasnoff (Ph.D. 2009, History) Publishes New Yorker Feature on French Basketball

  Lindsay Sarah Krasnoff (Ph.D. 2009, History), a historian in the U.S. Department of State’s Office of the Historian, published a New Yorker feature this week about basketball in France. Read more

• David Nasaw Profiled: Historian at Heart

  David Nasaw (History) is profiled and interviewed in Bucknell Magazine, the university magazine of his alma mater. Nasaw discusses his attraction to history, career, and bestselling books. Read... Read more

• Lawrence Cappello on the Economic Forces Behind Cyber Security

  Privacy and the Profit Motive
  The Nation, 5.4.15 Read more

• Faculty Book: Gregory Downs

  After Appomattox: Military Occupation and the Ends of War
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• GC Study Finds NYC’s Child Poverty Rate 'Substantially Higher' Than National Average

  The GC’s Center for Latin American, Caribbean and Latino Studies (CLACLS) announced today a new study that shows New York City’s child poverty rate was 32 percent in 2010 — 10 percentage points higher than the national average that year, the most recent timeframe for which data is available. Read more

• Gregory Downs' Article on The National Park Service, Civil War, and Reconstruction

  There’s No National Site Devoted to Reconstruction – Yet
  The Atlantic, 4.29.15
  
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• Richard Wolin Essay on Heidegger

  Goodbye Heidegger! (original in Italian)
  Corriere Della Sera, 4.17.15 Read more

• Gregory Downs on the "Appomattox Myth" in The New York Times Sunday Review

  The Dangerous Myth of Appomattox
  The New York Times, 4.11.15
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