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Forida’s History Education Standards on Slavery Ignore Their Own Expert Reviewers

The Miami Herald has uncovered how Florida has tried to cover up the state’s treatment of Black people. Reporters Ana Ceballos and Alyssa Johnson say…

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What Do We Call the Period Before Reconstruction?

I was reading an article in the Springfield News Leader, a paper in Missouri, on a local politician’s crack-down on “Critical Race Theory.” It was…

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Posted in Lincoln Slavery

The Feldman Thesis “Lincoln Broke the Constitution” and Its Critics

Harvard Law School Professor Noah Feldman has a new book out The Broken Constitution: Lincoln, Slavery, and the Refounding of America that is attracting attention…

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