Tony Platt

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Tony Platt, professor emeritus at San Jose State University, is the author, with Cecilia O'Leary, of "Bloodlines: Recovering Hitler's Nuremberg Laws, From Patton's Trophy to Public Memorial", and "Grave Matters: Excavating California's Buried Past"...

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The Dirty History of the Nuremberg Laws

Tony Platt / Truthdig Oct 6, 2010 Historical anniversaries are typically an occasion for remembrance, but the content of what and why we remember is always changing -- and sometimes a matter of argument. Historical anniversaries are typically an occasion for remembrance, but the content of what and why we remember is always changing. Dig deeper ( 5 Min. Read )

Tony Platt on Rebecca Skloot’s Life of Henrietta Lacks

BLANK Apr 9, 2010 The strange and disturbing story of racist medical ethics and the “benevolent deception” practiced on a nearly forgotten woman who inadvertently continues to live posthumously. Dig deeper ( 7 Min. Read )

Tony Platt on Ishi — the Last of the Yahi

BLANK Dec 18, 2009 A new book by Douglas Cazaux Sackman gives us new ways of thinking about the last man “uncontaminated” by modernity and explores our continuing nostalgia for the “wilderness.”A new book by Douglas Cazaux Sackman gives us new ways of thinking about the last man “uncontaminated” by modernity. Dig deeper ( 8 Min. Read )

Tony Platt on Wall Street Terror Attack

BLANK Mar 13, 2009 Beverly Gage's new book exhumes a nearly forgotten tale of class warfare -- call it 9/16. Dig deeper ( 9 Min. Read )

Tony Platt on American Eugenics

BLANK Jun 20, 2008 Here's a story, both chilling and inspiring: how prisoners at an Oklahoma prison in the aftermath of the Depression led a struggle to limit the practice of compulsory sterilization. Dig deeper ( 9 Min. Read )