Like the environmental post yesterday, there are a lot of interesting historical posts I've been meaning to talk about. Let's move through them all at once. 1) Extremely expensive dinners.
Unveiling ceremony of Confederate monument, Salisbury, North Carolina, 1909 Sometimes people wonder why the Confederate monuments matter? As if getting rid of them will end racism! No one argued that,.
It's good to see Democrats move away from Jefferson/Jackson dinners at the state level. There's no real reason to tie the party to two long dead white slaveowning men who.
Given that ETS is a greedy corporation (don't let the non-profit College Board confuse you, it's technically a client of ETS but ETS is who runs the test operation) that.
So I'm at the Fighting Inequality conference in DC, which is mostly a labor history conference. I see a paper by a young scholar you many know named Steven Attewell.
The first slave auction in New Amsterdam in 1655, painted by Howard Pyle, 1917 Glad to see New York City finally acknowledging its long history as a slave market. The.
Elizabeth Yale has an interesting essay arguing that the real conservative outrage over the AP U.S. History standards is that AP is avoiding the "we" in history, not taking a.
While I am usually in favor of keeping statues and other public monuments to horrible racists up and then interpreting them, naming major buildings or public works projects is a.
