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Principles

by Nearly Anonymous, Jan 29, 2008

A comparison of Howard Zinn and Irwin Unger’s accounts of the American Revolution.

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Henry Ashby Turner’s General Motors and the Nazis: A Review

by Nearly Anonymous, Jan 29, 2008

Ultimately, Turner excuses Opel from most allegations of collaboration and wrongdoing, and concludes that even less blame, if any at all, should be placed on the shoulders of its American owners.

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On Psychological Continuity

by Nearly Anonymous, Jan 29, 2008

Sydney Shoemaker attempts to reconcile the notion of personal identity with a materialist account of the mind. However, when faced with admittedly unusual yet still conceptually possible scenarios, the theory of psychological continuity leads to confusion and fails to provide us with satisfactory answers.

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The Response to Industrialism, 1885-1914: Book Review

by RagingHamster, Jan 27, 2008

To many historians, the populace-progressive period of the late 19th century and the early 20th century is seen as a simple conflict between the people and big business.

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Night

by Evander Robinson, Jan 24, 2008

A review of the best-selling book, Night, by Elie Wiesel. A man tells the world his story about his time in three different concentration camps during the Holocaust.

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