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  Confederate Statues Were Never Really About Preserving History

  FiveThirtyEight - By Ryan Best

  This data, hand-collected by the Southern Poverty Law Center, excludes any monuments found on or within battlefields, museums, cemeteries or other …

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  Laura Grand-Jean Robertson

  

  The Prophetic Pragmatism of Frederick Douglass

  The New Yorker - Adam Gopnik

  Frederick Douglass, who has been called the greatest American of the nineteenth century, grew up as a slave named Frederick Bailey, and the story of how he named himself in freedom shows how complicated his life, and his world, always was. Frederick’s father, as David W. Blight shows in his …

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  Laura Grand-Jean Robertson

  

  Is Education a Fundamental Right?

  The New Yorker - Jill Lepore

  Before sunrise on a morning just after Labor Day, 1977, Humberto and Jackeline Alvarez, Felix Hernandez, Rosario and Jose Robles, and Lidia and Jose Lopez huddled together in the basement of the United States Courthouse in Tyler, Texas, the Rose City, to decide just how much they were willing to …

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  Laura Grand-Jean Robertson

  

  W.E.B. Du Bois At 150

  NPR - Lynn Neary

  The great African-American sociologist, historian and writer W.E.B. Du Bois was born 150 years ago this week. His classic book, The Souls of Black Folk, has been republished with a new introduction. RACHEL MARTIN, HOST: Tomorrow is the 150th anniversary of the birth of W. E. B. Du Bois, the great …

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  Laura Grand-Jean Robertson

  Nov 6, 2017
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  Laura Grand-Jean Robertson

  

  How the Vietnam War Broke the American Presidency

  The Atlantic - Ken Burns, Lynn Novick

  The war opened the credibility gap. What we’ve learned since has only widened it. On April 30, 1975, when the last helicopter lifted off the roof of the U.S. Embassy in Saigon, the Vietnam War, the most consequential event in American history since World War II, ended in failure. More than 58,000 …