The 1936 Berlin Olympics Digital Resources
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Chapter 1: The Olympic Games: 1896 through 1932
Blog posts:
- Robin Voight, “The Evolution of the Early Olympics,” International Society of Olympic Historians.
- Jean Durry, “Art and Sport: ‘Hohrod and Eschbach’ a Mystery Finally Solved,” Olympic Review
- “Baron Coubertin’s Heart Buried in Olympia Stadium,” New York Times.
- Yves-Pierre Boulongne, “Pierre de Coubertin and Women’s Sport,” Olympics Review.
- The Olympic Museum, “The Modern Olympic Games.”
- David Maraniss, “At Long Last, the Olympic Injustice Done to Jim Thorpe Is Corrected,” Washington Post.
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Chapter 2: To Berlin or Not to Berlin?: The Race for the 1936 Olympics
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Chapter 3: Race, Politics, and the Olympics
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- Ben Carrington, “Q&A: Sociologist Ben Carrington Talks Race, Sports, and Politics,” University of Texas, Austin.
- Megan Gannon, “Race Is a Social Construct, Scientists Argue,” Scientific American.
- Ta-Nehisi Coates, “What We Mean When We Say ‘Race Is a Social Construct’,” The Atlantic.
- Edwin Black, “The Horrifying American Roots of Nazi Eugenics,” History News Network.
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Chapter 4: Let the Games Begin: Race, Sports, and Politics
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- Frederick T. Birchall, “100,000 Hail Hitler,” New York Times.
- Thomas Cogliano, “The 1936 Olympics: A Necessary Reflection and the Value of a Single Human Being,” Bleacher Report.
- Shirley Povich, “Berlin, 1936: At the Olympics, Achievements of the Brave in a Year of Cowardice,” Washington Post.
- Wolf von Eckardt, “Another Side of the Berlin Olympics,” Washington Post.
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