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Vast amounts of black property were taken by unscrupulous individual use of legal trickery. I recently read...
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A virtual tour of Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl. Originally published by Lapham’s Quarterly,...
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Napoleon didn’t like sitting for portraits, and yet artists and mass market prints helped cement his legendary...
Most of these Americans left behind little evidence explaining why they took up arms for the French...
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Every right-wing authoritarian movement has one thing in common: a brutal clampdown on any persons or groups...
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The first president was indispensable to our early republic, precisely because he didn’t see himself as indispensable....
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During the past two decades, historians of twentieth-century Britain have delineated the landscape of a “modern sexual...
“If Gaza had a normal flow of trade and investment, the region would have a much stronger...