The authors of RDV2.0 will be adding posts from time to time to supplement the chapters in the two volumes. Please feel free to suggest additional articles by emailing pauldain73@gmail.com.
Chapter 1. Stamp of Approval: Father Junipero Serra and the Spanish Settlement of California.
The linked article explains the various attempts at Stanford University to remove Father Serra from its campus references. CLICK HERE FOR ARTICLE.
The linked news is about protests to pull down statues of historical figures, including Junipero Serra. CLICK HERE FOR ARTICLE.
Chapter 2. The Blame and Shame of It: The Salem Witch Trials.
The linked article discusses how we can learn from the Salem Witch Trials regarding treatment of women. CLICK HERE FOR ARTICLE.
The linked article is an explanation by Arthur Miller of why he wrote the Crucible. CLICK HERE FOR ARTICLE.
Chapter 4. A Luxury We Can’t Afford: Thomas Jefferson and Slavery
The NYT Magazine article references Jefferson’s home as a slave trade site. CLICK HERE FOR ARTICLE.
The article explains Thomas Jefferson’s actions related to education. CLICK HERE FOR ARTICLE.
Chapter 5. Not One Morsel: The Petition of an Enslaved African Woman
The case against reparations. CLICK HERE FOR ARTICLE.
The former slave who sued for reparations and won. CLICK HERE FOR ARTICLE.
$27 Million for Reparations Over Slave Ties Pledged by Seminary. CLICK HERE FOR ARTICLE.
Chapter 7. The Power of a Fraction: James Wilson and the Three-Fifths Compromise
Professor Edward B. Foley, a professor of law at the Ohio State University, adds depth, unique insights, and consideration of possible reforms to the Electoral College. The subject of the Electoral College is an important part of Chapter 7. CLICK HERE FOR ARTICLE.
The New York Times presents an argument favoring the Popular Vote Interstate Compact CLICK HERE FOR ARTICLE.
This New York Times opinion piece discusses the role of slavery in the invention of the electoral college. CLICK HERE FOR ARTICLE.
In this New York Times piece, Dr. James Oakes discusses whether the Constitution was a pro-slavery document. CLICK HERE FOR ARTICLE.
Chapter 10. Back to Africa: The American Colonization Society and Daniel Coker’s Mission to Settle West Africa
$27 Million for Reparations Over Slave Ties Pledged by Seminary. CLICK HERE FOR ARTICLE.
Chapter 11. Gerry’s Salamander: Governor Elbridge Gerry’s 1812 Redistricting of Massachusetts.
The linked article explains the attempt by people in Michigan to end the practice of gerrymandering legislative districts. CLICK HERE FOR ARTICLE.
The New York Times presents an argument favoring the Popular Vote Interstate Compact. CLICK HERE FOR ARTICLE.
Chapter 12. A Bowl with One Spoon: Chief Tecumseh and the War of 1812.
The linked article presents a review of a recent biography of Tecumseh. CLICK HERE FOR ARTICLE.
Chapter 14. The Will of the People: Cherokee Removal
The New York Times piece is about the first Cherokee member of Congress. CLICK HERE FOR ARTICLE.
The Atlantic piece presents a review of a book, Unworhty Republic by Claudio Saunt, about Indian Removal and poses timely questions about capitalism, past, and present. CLICK HERE FOR ARTICLE.
Chapter 19. Tears of Blood
The linked article explains the difficulties Black soldiers faced due to racism after returning from World War II to their homes. CLICK HERE FOR ARTICLE.
The linked article explains the legacy of Robert E. Lee by placing it in the context of our time. CLICK HERE FOR ARTICLE.
Chapter 20. Rich Man’s War, Poor Man’s Fight: Andrew Carnegie and The Civil War Draft
The New York Times piece presents a real story about the riots in 1863. CLICK HERE FOR ARTICLE.
Chapter 21. Pioneer Suffragists: Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Susan B. Anthony, and Universal Suffrage.
The linked article explores how the suffrage movement betrayed Black women. CLICK HERE FOR ARTICLE.
African-American women were written out of the history of the woman suffrage movement. As the centennial of the 19th Amendment approaches, it’s time for a new look at the past. CLICK HERE FOR ARTICLE.
The linked article explains the role of Black women in the suffrage movement and the racism they encountered by white suffragists. CLICK HERE FOR ARTICLE.
Chapter 24. Telling a Lie to Discover the Truth: An Example of Investigative Reporting
The linked article explains why Nellie Bly is finally getting her due. CLICK HERE FOR ARTICLE.
Chapter 27. General Manager of the Nation: Nelson W. Aldrich and the Income Tax
The linked article is an opinion piece from the New York Times about oligarchies and their threat to democracy. CLICK HERE FOR ARTICLE.
Chapter 23. Kill the Indian and Save the Man: Luther Standing Bear and the Carlisle Indian Industrial School.
The linked article describes the history in the United States of separating children from their parents. CLICK HERE FOR ARTICLE.
Chapter 28. A War to End All Wars: American Entry into World War I
The linked article examines whether the Treaty of Versailles was a victory for democracy. CLICK HERE FOR ARTICLE.
Chapter 29. Stealing the North.
Racial segregation was not unique to the South; it began in the North. CLICK HERE FOR ARTICLE.
The linked column is by John McWhorter of Columbia. CLICK HERE FOR ARTICLE.
This linked article from the New York Times is about Homer Plessy. CLICK HERE FOR ARTICLE.
Chapter 31. Deportees: Deportation and Repatriation to Mexico, 1929-1939.
The linked article explains how some textbooks hide the mass expulsion of Mexican Americans during the Great Depression. CLICK HERE FOR ARTICLE.
The linked article describes how a president deported one million Mexican Americans to protect the jobs of American workers during the Great Depression. CLICK HERE FOR ARTICLE.
The linked article presents a short excerpt from a book, written by Erika Lee, with some numbers about the repatriation to Mexico during the Great Depression. CLICK HERE FOR ARTICLE.
Chapter 32. United We Sit: The Flint Sit-Down Strike
This NY Times piece reviews 90 years of UAW strikes. CLICK HERE FOR ARTICLE.
Chapter 33. Yearning to Breathe Free: The Voyage of the St. Louis
This link is to an article that appeared in the British newspaper, The Independent on November 7, 2018. It references the rejection by Canada of the Jewish refugees aboard the St. Louis. The article includes additional details about some passengers aboard the ship. It also describes considerations by four countries (Belgium, England, France, and Holland) surrounding their decisions to accept some of the St. Louis refugees. The motives of Nazi Germany’s leaders for sailing the ship with its Jewish passengers are analyzed in the article. CLICK HERE FOR ARTICLE.
Book Review from the NY Times: Slavery and the Holocaust: How Americans and Germans Cope With Past Evils CLICK HERE FOR ARTICLE.
The Queen Mary saved hundreds of Jews from the Nazis, even as the St. Louis was turned away Jews who could afford it booked passage on the British ocean liner to escape Hitler before the start of World War II.CLICK HERE FOR ARTICLE.
The linked article reveals the memories of Jewish refugees and the residents of Oswego about America’s only refugee camp during WWII. CLICK HERE FOR ARTICLE.
Chapter 34. Tell Them we Love Them: Japanese Americans During World War II.
The linked article describes the the expatriation of Peruvians of Japanese descent in the United States during World War II. CLICK HERE FOR ARTICLE.
The linked article from the Washington Post provides first-hand narrative from a Japanese-American placed in an internment camp and then drafted. CLICK HERE FOR ARTICLE.
The linked articles discuss the controversy generated by a United States Representative when she described immigration detention facilities as concentration camps. CLICK HERE FOR ARTICLE. CLICK HERE FOR ARTICLE.
The linked article discusses the unusual contact between two future members of Congress who met at a Japanese internment camp. CLICK HERE FOR ARTICLE.
The linked article discusses the internment experience of actor George Takei. CLICK HERE FOR ARTICLE.
The New York Times piece is about John Okada’s “No-No Boy.” CLICK HERE FOR ARTICLE.
The podcast from The Washington Post discusses the meanings of reparations beyond money. CLICK HERE FOR PODCAST.
California’s Apology for Internment Cams. CLICK HERE FOR ARTICLE.
The linked article is from Beyond the World War II We Know series in The New York Times. It explains the lives of Japanese-Americans after releasing from internment camps. CLICK HERE FOR ARTICLE.
Here is a 7-minute video about the experiences of Nisei Soldiers in World War II. CLICK HERE FOR ARTICLE.
Chapter 35. Naming of Names: Elia Kazan and McCarthyism
The linked article is an explanation by Arthur Miller of why he wrote the Crucible. CLICK HERE FOR ARTICLE.
Chapter 37. Forty Acres and a Mule: Reparations for African Americans
The linked article from the National Review is about reparation legislation. CLICK HERE FOR ARTICLE.
Affirmative action article from The Atlantic. CLICK HERE FOR ARTICLE.
The former slave who sued for reparations and won. CLICK HERE FOR ARTICLE.
If direct reparations to African-Americans are not politically feasible, Senator Cory Booker (D-NJ) has a proposal to provide a trust account to each American child. In the fall of 2018, Booker announced the “Baby Bond” proposal as a bill in Congress. It call for the government to create a trust account containing a thousand dollars for each infant. Each year, the Treasury would add as much as two thousand dollars, depending on the child’s household income, so that by adulthood the children of the poorest families would have a nest egg of nearly fifty thousand dollars. The money could be withdrawn only to buy a house or to pay for higher education or professional training. Booker estimated the cost of the proposal at sixty billion dollars a year, and said that he planned to pay for it by, among other things, raising estate taxes back to their 2009 levels and then raising taxes on the largest inherited fortunes—those of more than eighty million dollars—further still. CLICK HERE FOR ARTICLE.
This article suggests that reparations may not be the answer. CLICK HERE FOR ARTICLE.
A case against reparations. CLICK HERE FOR ARTICLE.
The linked article contains a podcast of a reading of the novel Conduction by Ta-Nehisi Coates describing an escape from slavery. CLICK HERE FOR ARTICLE.
The linked article explains the history of racism in the United States. CLICK HERE FOR ARTICLE.
The linked article describes how white supremacy shaped the first census. CLICK HERE FOR ARTICLE.
The linked article from Politico discusses the reparations debate. CLICK HERE FOR ARTICLE.
Book Review from the NYTimes: Slavery and the Holocaust: How Americans and Germans Cope With Past Evils CLICK HERE FOR ARTICLE.
$27 Million for Reparations Over Slave Ties Pledged by Seminary. CLICK HERE FOR ARTICLE.
The podcast from The Washington Post discusses the meanings of reparations beyond money. CLICK HERE FOR PODCAST.
The NYT Magazine article references Jefferson’s home as a slave trade site. CLICK HERE FOR ARTICLE.
The linked article is from the Washington Post is about the 2020 presidential candidates CLICK HERE FOR ARTICLE.
This NYT opinion piece is about reparations in the wake of the George Floyd death and protests that followed. CLICK HERE FOR ARTICLE.
The linked article is from the NYT Magazine about returning home from WWII. CLICK HERE FOR ARTICLE.
The links below are from the New York Times Magazine 1619 Project that examines the history of slavery and racism in the United States.
The linked article presents the story of the 1923 Rosewood Racial Massacre and effects of reparations on the lives of Rosewood community. CLICK HERE FOR ARTICLE.
The linked article discusses significant points in American history about Black Americans starting in early 1900 to date. CLICK HERE FOR ARTICLE.
The linked article describes the history of the Electoral College. CLICK HERE FOR ARTICLE.
The linked article illustrates the redlining in neighborhoods because of racial segregation and its effects on differences in the urban heat environments. CLICK HERE FOR ARTICLE.
The podcast with author Heather McGhee discusses how racism negatively affects not only African Americans but also society at large. CLICK HERE FOR PODCAST.
The linked article is about the history of the demands for reparations and the current situation in 2021. CLICK HERE FOR ARTICLE.
Chapter 39. Accord Discord: The Paris Climate Accord of 2015.
The linked article discusses climate change on global weather patterns and the inaction of government in addressing the issue. CLICK HERE FOR ARTICLE. CLICK HERE FOR REPORT.