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  Lauren MacIvor Thompson | Mar 16, 2023

  Public discussions often fail to acknowledge the nuance of abortion’s history, a fact made painfully clear in last year's US Supreme Court decision.
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  Clay Risen | Mar 15, 2023

  Too many journalists misunderstand the uses of history, and historians bear some responsibility.
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  James J. Ward | Feb 21, 2023

  When one historian visited Berlin in 1991, the recent past was already fading from its streets.
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  Lucy Barnhouse | Feb 16, 2023

  Ghosts provide an excellent comparative lens for a history class.

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