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The Hopefulness and Hopelessness of 1619

Marking the 400-year African American struggle to survive and to be free of racism.

by Ibram X. Kendi via The Atlantic on August 20, 2019

A woman driving a tractor with a man, with mechanized farming in the background, drawn in the Soviet style.

The American Housewives who Sought Freedom in Soviet Russia

A forgotten chapter in the history of feminism: why American women chose to flee the West for ‘freedom’ in Soviet Russia.

by Julia L. Mickenberg via Aeon on July 6, 2017

Soldiers in Continental Army

Rumming with the Devil

A perusal of Benjamin Franklin’s "Drinker’s Dictionary," and a chat about how the drink of choice in revolutionary America switched from cider to rum.

via BackStory on January 1, 2016

Phillis Wheatley: an Eighteenth-Century Genius in Bondage

Vincent Carretta takes a look at the remarkable life of the first ever African-American woman to be published.

by Vincent Carretta via The Public Domain Review on December 2, 2006

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