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Op-Ed: American history is a parade of horrors — and also heroes
Los Angeles Times Opinion via Yahoo News· 2 years agoJohn Brown, an evangelical militia leader who was hanged for trying to arm enslaved people for an...
Opinion | ChatGPT Is Parroting Myths About Slavery
Politico via Yahoo News· 1 year agoIn my 12 years of public education in Huntsville, Ala., I was not taught much about slavery. In fact, the one reference to slavery I recall from an Alabama history textbook presented it as a ...
Why You Should Be Worried About the Split in the Methodist Church
Politico via Yahoo News· 1 year agoLast weekend, over 400 Methodist churches in Texas voted to leave their parent denomination, the United Methodist Church (UMC). Their decision followed the mass exodus of Methodist congregations ...
University of Cambridge says it gained from slave trade
Reuters via Yahoo News· 2 years agoBritain's University of Cambridge said on Thursday it had benefited from the proceeds of slavery...
Writing on the legacy of MLK: Three winning essays in 2023 Fresno County schools contest
Fresno Bee McClatchy via AOL· 1 year agoIn partnership with the Fresno County Martin Luther King Jr. Unity Committee, the Office of the...
Historian to discuss powerful border dynamics for Black community in 19th century Rochester
Democrat and Chronicle via Yahoo News· 9 months agoThe things that Frederick Douglass and other Black residents of 19th century Rochester deemed...
History weighs like a nightmare on the living if they are ignorant of basic facts
The Telegraph via Yahoo News· 5 months agoWilliam Faulkner’s dictum that “the past is never dead – it’s not even past” has rarely been more...
Alliance's Haines House celebrates more than just the Underground Railroad
The Repository via Yahoo News· 2 months ago"Trailblazers, Freedom Seekers & Abolitionists! Their stories are the story of the Haines House ......
An Acclaimed New Novel Retells Huck Finn From Jim’s Perspective—or Maybe Something Sneakier Is Going...
Slate via Yahoo News· 2 months agoPercival Everett’s James is being marketed as a retelling of The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn,...
York in American History: Whittier’s poem ‘Maude Muller’s Spring’
Portsmouth Herald via Yahoo News· 12 months agoFew passers-by notice a granite marker on Cider Hill Road that identifies the spot where John...