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Finding Slave History

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On December 12, 2024
This is good news for those of us who care about a truthful discussion of the historical record: At least 26 enslaved people died on the Tennessee plantation of President Andrew Jackson between 1804 and the end of the Civil War in 1865. Where they...

Republicans just openly embracing the Confederacy as the only history that really matters to them is....completely unsurprising. The House voted Thursday on a Republican amendment to restore Arlington National Cemetery’s Confederate.

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James Lawson, RIP

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On June 10, 2024
As I say frequently, it is extremely unfortunate that our vision of the civil rights movement has been reduced to just a few people in public memory. This doesn't surprise me of course, but still, we really miss the complexities and flavors this way. One...
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The Minnesota State Flag

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On December 20, 2023
State flags are mostly pretty badly designed, but they do express values of the state, or at least they do when they are changed. See how various southern states added the stars and bars to their flag in the early 60s to show that they...

Canceling Kit Carson

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On September 3, 2023

Kit Carson led the genocide against the Navajo in 1864 and so.....good for whoever did this. The sandstone obelisk honoring controversial 19th century frontiersman and soldier Kit Carson was partially.

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