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Speech
The Real Scandal of Campus Protest
It’s not that there has been too much student protest. It’s that there has not been much, much more of it.Boston Review -
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John Brown
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Antecedent
US Worker Movements and Direct Links Against Apartheid
Today's pro-Palestinian activists are utilizing anti-apartheid tactics from thirty years ago.Black Perspectives -
Book Review
An Unholy Traffic: How the Slave Trade Continued Through the US Civil War
In a new book, Robert KD Colby of the University of Mississippi shows how the Confederacy remained committed to slavery.The Guardian -
Explainer
Why We Still Use Postage Stamps
The enduring necessity (and importance) of a nearly 200-year-old technology.The Atlantic -
Annotation
The “Carbon Dioxide Problem”: Nixon’s Inner Circle Debates the Climate Crisis
A collection of records from the Nixon Presidential Library and other sources on the internal debates Nixon advisors were having about climate change and environment.National Security Archive -
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1968 @50
A year of turmoil at home and abroad.
From the HNN Archive
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The Leaders of Tomorrow
What happened in 1970 after Richard Nixon was told, “I doubt that there would be any problem of student demonstrations in Tennessee.” -
Why Does American History Feel Like Ancient History to High School Students?
An argument for returning the recent past, and the history of modern conservatism, to classrooms. -
No Place to Make a Vote of Thanks
On the long tradition of Black third-party activism.