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“We Must Look Only to Ourselves to Save the Situation:” The Emergence of Opposition to the Occupation

May 13, 2015May 13, 2015 Brandon Byrd Haiti, imperialism

This is the fifth entry in a series on the centennial of the U.S. occupation of Haiti. The  previous entry

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Teaching Phillis Wheatley in Light of Freddie Gray

May 8, 2015 Chernoh Sesay Jr. Ferguson, primary source, teaching

Noelle Trent wrote a great post about how to locate “the reality of students’ lives in the themes and trends

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Integrating the Baltimore Riot into a Civil War History Class, An Improvised Lesson

May 2, 2015May 4, 2015 Noelle Trent Baltimore, Civil War, teaching

This past week was a tumultuous week in the Baltimore – Washington area. What began as an ordinary week became

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Why did Nat Turner “confess”?

April 29, 2015April 29, 2015 Patrick Rael Henry Highland Garnet, Nat Turner, William Lloyd Garrison

Turner sought to carry on in words the work he had begun with a sword. This blog has been blessed

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Barack Obama and the Legacy of Reconstruction

April 28, 2015April 28, 2015 Christopher Bonner

Is Barack Obama right that race relations are not worsening now? New Yorker contributor Dorothy Wickenden posed this question during

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