Notes from the Library: Gerrit Smith and the Problems of Politics
Gerrit Smith wanted to solve the problems of the antebellum United States. He hated slavery, so he bankrolled John Brown.
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“A Troubled Past” and the Meanings of Breaking the Law
In early August, St. Louis County Police shot eighteen-year-old Tyrone Harris, Jr. amidst an outbreak of violence during protests in
Read moreAndrew Johnson, “Our Best Friend”
“Mr. PRESIDENT: We have been appointed a committee by a public meeting of the colored people of Richmond, Va., to
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Last Sunday, I stood on a Pennsylvania Avenue sidewalk, about midway between the U.S. Capitol and the White House,
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Is Barack Obama right that race relations are not worsening now? New Yorker contributor Dorothy Wickenden posed this question during
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