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On the New York Young Lords: An Interview with Darrel Wanzer-Serrano

September 30, 2015September 30, 2015 Keisha N. Blain Latino/a, New York, Politics, Puerto Rican history

This month, I interviewed Dr. Darrel Wanzer-Serrano, the author of an exciting new book entitled The New York Young Lords

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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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Notes from the Library: Gerrit Smith and the Problems of Politics

September 25, 2015September 24, 2015 Christopher Bonner

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

September 18, 2015September 18, 2015 Phillip Luke Sinitiere

As a result of events in Ferguson related to the death of Michael Brown, last summer Georgetown University history professor

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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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