Search Results for: Civil War

Another symbol of the Confederacy falls

October 28, 2015October 31, 2015 Patrick Rael Jefferson Davis

Bowdoin College recently declared that it will no longer offer the Jefferson Davis Award to a student excelling in constitutional

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African American Diplomacy and Disruptive Activism (Athan Biss)

October 4, 2015March 15, 2016 Guest Poster #BlackLivesMatter, black politics, Frederick Douglass

This is a guest post by Athan Biss, a PhD Candidate in the Department of History at the University of

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Sean Wilentz is wrong about the Founders, slavery, and the Constitution

September 29, 2015September 28, 2015 Patrick Rael Constitution, freedom, law, racism, slavery

According to Sean Wilentz’s opinion piece in the September 16 New York Times, the Constitution of 1787 did not make

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The ‘Dixie Narrative’ and the Meaning of Slavery

September 16, 2015March 26, 2017 Guest Poster slavery

*This is a guest post from Ibrahim Sundiata, emeritus professor of African/Afro-American Studies and History at Brandeis University. Sundiata is

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How to Complete an MA/PhD in 4 Years Part 4: The Job Search

July 6, 2015July 6, 2015 Chris Cameron

It has been a few weeks since my last post in this series so I wanted to start with a

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