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Commentary: President Biden must honor his word to Black voters, Dr. King’s legacy
Candidate Biden pledged that diversity, equity and inclusion – especially voting rights – would be part of his platform. But his follow-through is unimpressive.
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Posted inArts & Entertainment, Books
Bedside Table: Plagues, then and now
“I just finished reading ‘The American Plague: The Untold Story of Yellow Fever, the Epidemic that Shaped Our History’ by Molly Caldwell Crosby. Its 285 pages-plus begins with an author’s note that ends with a chilling quotation from John Edgar Wideman’s book ‘Fever’: ‘Nothing is an accident. Fever grows in the secret places of our […]
Posted inOp-eds, Opinion
Commentary: The U.S. has long sought to exploit Guantánamo’s legal contradictions
For 20 years, the United States has held detainees at Guantanamo. The base’s problems are even older.
Posted inArts & Entertainment, Books, Review
Book review: The extraordinary heroism of a single woman saved countless lives
Robert Mrazek’s book tells the riveting story of a little-known, exceptionally courageous Filipino woman who risked her own life to save American POWs during World World War II.
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Bedside table: A dose of storytelling makes the history lessons stick
“I find that reading and discussing well-written and researched historical novels is a great alternative for learning history. We’re reading ‘Oliver Wiswell’ by Kenneth Roberts for a course I’m leading at York County Community College’s South Coast Senior College. It’s Roberts’ third historical novel that spans the American Revolution and is written from the Loyalist […]
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Commentary: White supremacists are using an old playbook, but so are the lawyers fighting them
We have shown how to use the Ku Klux Klan Act of 1871 against extremists.
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As Washington’s farming techniques evolved, so did his views on slavery
What the first president’s own documents reveal about his life and work as a farmer.
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Insight: Don’t wait for the new year to make a new start
Benjamin Franklin, America’s first self-help guru, thought of improvement as an ongoing project, not as sudden change.
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The danger of American nostalgia for World War II
Romanticizing that war has led us to seek another just as “good,” Elizabeth Samet writes.
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