Why White Southern Conservatives Need to Defend Confederate Monuments
Modern debates over Confederate monuments are not merely concerned with culture, historical memory, or racism. For many monument defenders, there
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Memory
Bringing W. E. B. Du Bois Home Again
*This post is part of our online forum on W.E.B. Du Bois @ 150. The year 1968 was one of the most memorable
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Race, Religion and Radicalism: King and Du Bois
*This post is part of our online forum on W.E.B. Du Bois @ 150. On the occasion of a dual anniversary—the year we
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W. E. B. Du Bois, World War I, and the Question of Failure
*This post is part of our online forum on W.E.B. Du Bois @ 150. 2018 marks both the sesquicentennial of W. E. B.
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“History is Knowledge, Identity, and Power”: Lerone Bennett Jr., 1928–2018
When I found out about Lerone Bennett, Jr’s passing, I was immediately struck by his sense of poetic timing. In life, Bennett
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