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Hiding (from the Present) in the Past
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Sitting in the lobby of the Philadelphia Marriott at the 2023 annual convention of the American Historical Association, one would never know the guild had been rocked by a controversy that forced the AHA to temporarily suspend its Twitter account as AHA President James H. Sweet’s essay “Is History...

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Missing Things: State Secrets and U.S. Cold War Policy Toward Laos
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Charting incomplete U.S. archives from the Cold War made secret through redacted U.S. State documents, Vang shows how Hmong refugees tell their stories in ways that exist separately from narratives of U.S. empire and that cannot be traditionally archived. In so doing, Vang outlines a methodology for writing histories that foreground refugee epistemologies despite systematic attempts to silence those histories. 

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