Notes from the Library: Gerrit Smith and the Problems of Politics
Gerrit Smith wanted to solve the problems of the antebellum United States. He hated slavery, so he bankrolled John Brown.
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Go for Broke: #WallerCountySyllabus
As a result of events in Ferguson related to the death of Michael Brown, last summer Georgetown University history professor
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*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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As a new school year gets underway, I find myself more excited about my course offerings than usual.
Read moreThoughts about Indignation and Democratic Political Theory
I recently read Nicholas Brommel, The Time is Always Now: Black Thought and the Transformation of US Democracy (Oxford, UK:
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