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Remembering the 54th Massachusetts on Flag Day | RealClearPolitics
RealClearPolitics· 5 days agoWilliam Carney heard a familiar voice roar, “Forward 54th!” Dashing up a steep slope with sand...
How the Civil War spurred the animal welfare movement
The Christian Science Monitor· 6 days agoAs Bill Wasik and Monica Murphy explain in “Our Kindred Creatures: How Americans Came To Feel the...
Review | Nell Irvin Painter’s understanding of America is beautiful and bracing. We should listen.
Washington Post· 5 days agoFrom the opening sentences of her new collection, “I Just Keep Talking: A Life in Essays,” historian...
What Is “Fusion Voting”? Just a Way to Save the Country, That’s All
The New Republic via Yahoo News· 2 days agoMinor-party candidates are a waste of time. But minor parties that can cross-endorse major-party...
Opinion | The real reason the MAGA right is brandishing upside-down American flags
MSNBC· 3 days agoNo, I haven’t suddenly embraced vexillology — the study of flags — as a hobby. After former...
‘Some of us really wanted to smash imperialism’: Cher Tan honed her defiant creativity in...
The Conversation· 13 hours agoIn her debut essay collection, Peripathetic: Notes on (un)belonging, Cher Tan turns her maverick attention to the possibility and power of resistance. Tan’s essays rise out of a defiant, DIY sensibility and sustain a dissident energy.
Opinion: Church’s views on race, politics trumped its views on truth and grace | Chattanooga Times...
Chattanooga Times Free Press· 7 days agoThis week, the leaders of the Presbyterian Church in America will gather in Richmond, Virginia, for their annual General Assembly. The Presbyterian Church in America is a small, theologically ...
20th anniversary of Frederick Douglass speech reading - The Martha's Vineyard Times
The Martha's Vineyard Times· 4 days agoThe 20th anniversary of the July Fourth reading of Frederick Douglass’ speech “What to the Slave Is...
A push to mark the buried history of ‘harrowing’ slave prisons near Busch Stadium
St. Louis Post-Dispatch· 4 days agoThousands of people were once held in underground slave prisons in St. Louis, where Busch Stadium...
Community celebrates Juneteenth in Ashtabula
Star Beacon, Ashtabula, Ohio via Yahoo News· 2 days agoJun. 15—ASHTABULA — A celebration of freedom took place on Saturday afternoon at Lance Corp. Kevin Cornelius Park as many people came together to celebrate Juneteenth. The national holiday to ...