Centrist Liberalism and the Myths of the American Past
We are now a full year into the Trump Administration, and a serious ideological challenge has yet to be leveled
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African American Freedom and the Illusive “Forty Acres and a Mule”
On August 18, 2016, the United Nations Working Group on Experts of People of African Descent determined that the history
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Race, Racism, and Southern Myths
In 2010, two historians edited a collection of thirteen essays written by white historians about “The Myth of Southern Exceptionalism.”
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Black Women, Agency, and the Civil War
Throughout much of the twentieth century historians framed the Civil War as a political and military driven historical process, which
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Aaron Alpeoria Bradley and Black Power during Reconstruction
American historians have long traced the genesis of the Black Power movement to 1966. I would argue, however, that one
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