Some Tips for Writing a Strong NEH Proposal
With the deadline for the National Endowment for the Humanities fellowship program a little over a month away, I thought
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Let’s Talk about Race!, or Let’s Talk about Race?
In the past week or so, Starbucks has made itself an easy target for criticism and ridicule with the “Race Together”
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This is the third entry in a series on the centennial of the U.S. occupation of Haiti. The previous post
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More than once, I have tried to catch a fugitive slave. I think I’m okay with this. I came to
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