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Southern Nationalism Exploring the roots of the Civil War... |
Civil War Times
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Boston Combusts: The Fugitive Slave Case of Anthony Burns An eruption in the nation's abolitionist capital nearly seven years before Fort Sumter foreshadowed the irreconcilable divide between North and South and the fracture to come. |
Civil War Times
April 2006
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Reason
January 2009
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The Trouble With Thomas Jefferson The eloquent Founder's original sin described in The Hemingses of Monticello: An American Family, by Annette Gordon-Reed. |
HBS Working Knowledge
May 23, 2005
Scott A. Sandage |
Losers and the American Dream Born Losers: A History of Failure in America looks at the stories of near-anonymous people who dreamed big and fell far, while at the same time exploring our shifting attitudes toward those Willy Lomans in our midst. |
Reason
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Behind the Jeffersonian Veneer Thomas Woods, author of the best-selling Politically Incorrect Guide to American History, is a bad ally for libertarians, though his message may appeal to those who can't distinguish the flaws of America from those of outright despotisms. |
Salon.com
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British Heritage
May 2007
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Timeline: The Abolition of the Slave Trade Adam Smith predicted in 1763 that power- and profit-hungry human nature would never allow the widespread abolition of slavery. Nevertheless, in at least a partial victory over human nature, in early 1807 the House of Commons voted, 283 to 16, to abolish the British slave trade. |
Reason
February 2008
Andrew Napolitano |
List: Unconstitutional Conventions What has happened to the America that was once in love with freedom? |
ifeminists
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Todd Andrew Barnett |
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Salon.com
April 5, 2001
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Islam's black slaves The author of a book on the 1,400-year history of the other slave trade talks about the power of eunuchs, the Nation of Islam's falsehoods and the persistence of slavery today... |
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Camp William Penn's Black Soldiers in Blue Under the stern but sympathetic gaze of Lt. Col. Louis Wagner, some 11,000 African-American soldiers trained to fight for their freedom at Philadelphia's Camp William Penn. Three Medal of Honor recipients would pass through the camp's gates. |
Salon.com
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Stuck on Oprah Earl Ofari Hutchinson sets up a straw woman to knock down my arguments against reparations, and he fails. |
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TIME Asia
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The latest civil rights disaster Ten reasons why reparations for slavery are a bad idea for black people -- and racist too. |
TIME Asia
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AskMen.com
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Top 10: Classic American Authors Books still shape our society. It has been so for centuries; the great thinkers of humanity put their ideas into writing for the benefit of all. And America has produced great artists whose musings are still studied today. Let's explore the top 10 most influential American writers. |
Science News
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Book Review: Darwin's Sacred Cause: How A Hatred Of Slavery Shaped Darwin's Views On Human Evolution By Adrian Desmond And James Moore / Science News Adrian Desmond and James Moore, who received acclaim for a 1991 Darwin biography, persuasively show Darwin as a great unifier. |
