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Higher Education's Reckoning with Slavery
Two decades of activism and scholarship have led to critical self-examination.
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Leslie M. Harris
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Academe
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January 1, 2020
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Why We Should Say Goodbye to the Miss America Pageant
The event originally borrowed sashes and pageantry from suffragists — whose vision for women we should honor instead.
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Kimberly A. Hamlin
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Made By History
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December 19, 2019
How to Forget
A review of Lewis Hyde’s “A Primer for Forgetting: Getting Past the Past.”
by
Sebastian Stockman
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Los Angeles Review of Books
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October 14, 2019
Hollow Words
Exploring John Cleves Symmes Jr.’s obsession with a hollow Earth.
by
Laura Leavitt
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The Smart Set
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January 7, 2019
Exhibit
Monument Wars
This exhibit explores discussions about what we choose to memorialize – and why.
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Why Some White Americans see Racial Equality as Oppression
White victimhood's roots in the Civil War.
by
Martha Hodes
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Made By History
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August 27, 2018
On Statues, History, and Historians
A case study from Texas in how Lost Cause mythology was promoted and reified.
by
Rich Heyman
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Process: A Blog for American History
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March 8, 2018
The Painful History of a Confederate Monument Tells Itself
Haunting archival footage of Stone Mountain's creation.
by
Emily Buder
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The Atlantic
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December 1, 2017
The Ruin: Roosevelt Island’s Smallpox Hospital
An inside look at a forgotten Northeast epicenter of smallpox treatment.
by
Selin Thomas
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The Paris Review
on
October 30, 2017
How Southern Socialites Rewrote Civil War History
The United Daughters of the Confederacy altered the South’s memory of the Civil War.
by
Coleman Lowndes
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Vox
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October 25, 2017
A Senator Speaks Out Against Confederate Monuments… in 1910
Alone in his stand, Weldon Heyburn despised that Robert E. Lee would be memorialized with a statue in the U.S. Capitol.
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Cynthia R. Greenlee
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Smithsonian
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October 18, 2017
What Do We Do With Our Dead?
Our mortuary conventions reveal a lot about our relation to the past.
by
Jill Lepore
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The New Yorker
on
October 16, 2017
Don’t Repress the Past
Another way to look at controversial historical figures.
by
James Livingston
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The Chronicle of Higher Education
on
November 20, 2015
How The West Was Wrong: The Mystery Of Sacagawea
Sacagawea is a symbol for everything from Manifest Destiny to women’s rights to American diversity. Except we don't know much about her.
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Natalie Shure
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BuzzFeed News
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October 11, 2015
An Object Lesson: What The Restoration of Fats Domino's Piano Means to New Orleans
Ten years after Hurricane Katrina, the legend’s showpiece symbolizes the city's resilience.
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Mary Niall Mitchell
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The Atlantic
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August 26, 2015
Body Snatchers of Old New York
In the 1780s, medical schools used cadavers stolen from the cemeteries of slaves.
by
Bess Lovejoy
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Lapham’s Quarterly
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October 13, 2013
His Highness
George Washington scales new heights.
by
Jill Lepore
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The New Yorker
on
September 20, 2010
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