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HISTORICAL FACTS: 3 - Caught on Camera

Racism is such a touchy topic that many US educators avoid it – we are college professors who tackled that challenge head on

It is not easy to teach about race in today’s political and social climate.

The Conversation

How Black liberals fought a "dark age"

Scholar Keidrick Roy on the lessons of 19th-century Black thinkers who resisted racist notions of "liberty"

Salon

Project reveals UK sites where black Americans fought to end slavery

Missing Pieces Project maps buildings in 189 locations where African American abolitionists spoke against slavery

The Guardian - UK

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Book Review (by Prof. Jacob Mchangama): "Fearless Speech" Doesn't Take First Amendment History Seriously

A review of Prof. Mary Anne Franks' new book, Fearless Speech: Breaking Free from the First Amendment (plus a response by Prof. Franks to Prof. Mchangama's Tweeted criticisms, and a reply by Prof. Mchangama).

Reason

Joy and pain, struggle and achievement – who best tells the story of Black lives?

We asked a group of Black Britons, some famous, some not: who do you most revere as a chronicler of the Black journey, in Britain and abroad?

The Guardian - UK

Frederick Douglass Praises the "Courage" Of Justice John Marshall Harlan

“In these easy going days [Harlan] should find himself possessed of the courage to resist the temptation to go with the multitude”

Reason

The History of Ideas by David Runciman review – big thinkers with visions of a better world

The academic’s page-turning volume of essays – a study of intellectuals who sought to improve the politics and societies of their day – makes you feel a little more learned than you did before

The Guardian - UK

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Writings on the Declaration of Independence and the American Revolution

A collection of links to some of my previous writings on these topics, which remain relevant today.

Reason

What Frederick Douglass learned from an Irish antislavery activist: ‘Agitate, agitate, agitate’

Though Frederick Douglass remains the most well-known abolitionist to visit Ireland in the decades prior to the American Civil War, he was not the only one.

The Conversation

Five things to know about Memorial Day and its profound original purpose: ‘It isn’t just the barbecue’

Someone has always lamented the holiday’s drift from its original meaning

The Independent UK

Free Church of Scotland under fire for failure to apologise over slavery money

Church statement expressing ‘grief’ that members took money from plantation owners in 1844 condemned as ‘shameful’

The Guardian - UK

The Year of Living Constitutionally: a man, a political plan … and a musket

For AJ Jacobs, living according to the founders’ rules cast a spotlight on the power – and absurdity – of originalist thought

The Guardian - US

A festival of music, film and spectacle: the best of Belfast 2024

A year-long celebration aims to start a new chapter for Belfast, forging better connections and conversations within communities through creativity and culture

The Guardian - UK

Manhunt episode 3 recap: Booth's Confederate dream

In Manhunt episode 3, Stanton and Booth are heading in opposite directions as the aftermath of Lincoln's death emboldens former Confederates.

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6 Side-By-Side Portraits Of Black Civil War Heroes And Their Direct Descendants

The award-winning British photographer has spent nearly two decades tracking down descendants of notable people and asking them to pose for recreated portraits of their famous ancestors. The post 6 Side-By-Side Portraits Of Black Civil War Heroes And Their Direct Descendants first appeared on Bored Panda.

Roll Call

‘Let’s keep this history alive’: Descendants of Black leaders gather at White House

Descendants of several civil rights leaders and abolitionists came together Tuesday at a Black History Month event hosted by the White House.

The Guardian - UK

Entangled Pasts: Art, Colonialism and Change review – the most radical show in the RA’s history

The latest institution to confront its colonial past, the RA does so to enthralling effect, using the art and its subjects – spanning 250 years, from Turner to Lubaina Himid – rather than the wall texts to shock and enlighten

Evening Standard

Entangled Pasts, 1768 - Now at the Royal Academy review: a thoughtful reflection on art's colonial history

This complex, nuanced show reckons with the past of the Royal Academy itself

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Chicago Sun-Times

For a lesson in uniting against oligarchs and racist politics, look at 1870s Virginia

Working-class white former Confederates joined Black families to save free public schools that oligarchs were trying to eliminate. If they could come together then, what’s stopping Americans from uniting now?

WEKU

A Frederick Douglass mural in his hometown in Maryland draws some divisions

A mural depicting Frederick Douglass in a chunky wristwatch, a slim-cut suit and crisp white Converse has divided the town of Easton, Md., in his birth county of Talbot.

Salon

What to America is John Brown?

Maybe a lesson about people who refuse to learn from the instructive dissent of social movements

Salon

PragerU rewrites the Civil War, Jan. 6

Abraham Lincoln is portrayed making arguments that sound like modern Proud Boys begging a judge for forgiveness

Reason

Frederick Douglass as Natural Rights Originalist

A fascinating new exploration of Frederick Douglass' constitutional thought.

The National (Scotland)

Scottish island hotel urged to acknowledge historic slavery connections

A SCOTTISH island hotel has been urged to publicly acknowledge its historic links with slavery ...

The Independent UK

Frederick Douglass ‘amongst the people he loved’ as statue unveiled in Belfast

A statue of the former slave, turned writer and statesman, is now on display in Lombard Street in the city centre.

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