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DARK SECRETS: John c calhoun | Rare Historical Photos

Gordon Wood's Enduring Defense of the American Revolution

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Reason

Anatomy of a speech: how does a Republican leader say no to Trump?

South Carolina’s state senate majority leader offered a nuanced case for rejecting Trump’s redistricting demands

The Guardian - US

South Carolina Senate protects nearly all monuments and bans adding QR codes to statues

The South Carolina Senate has approved a proposal to protect nearly every historic statue, monument, and building name from changes or removal

The Independent UK

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The Democratic Party Is Offering a False Choice Between Socialism and Technocracy

By looking to the past, Democrats could chart a pro-freedom blueprint for their party’s future.

Reason

Safe Space review – lively campus comedy wrestles with the culture wars

Jamie Bogyo’s debut play recounts the renaming of a Yale University college with broadstroke humour and some exquisitely sung a cappella interludes

The Guardian - UK

‘The masturbation scene really happened’: inside Safe Space, the campus drama about toppling a statue

Inspired by a protest that took place while he was at Yale, Safe Space is musicals star Jamie Bogyo’s debut play. He speaks about well-meaning white liberals, saying ‘cringe’ things – and tutoring a Bin Laden

The Guardian - UK

‘Let’s dig into the archives and tell the truth’: interrogating Yale’s connections to slavery

Pulitzer prize winner David Blight follows his biography of Frederick Douglass with a deep dive into his university’s dark past

The Guardian - US

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Scholar’s new rap album seeks to turn the tables on the ‘masters’ from the Old South

Usually when a rap artist comes out with a new album, it’s released by a record label as part of their career as an entertainer. For Dr. A.D. Carson, a professor of hip-hop at the University of Virginia, his latest album – “Owning My Masters (Mastered): The Rhetorics of Rhymes…

The Conversation

Abraham Lincoln vs John Calhoun: the original deepfake photo of a US president

This iconic 1865 portrait of Abraham Lincoln was actually a doctored image of slavery advocate John Calhoun

Digital Camera World

Nikki Haley’s comment on the US civil war was no gaffe

When asked about the cause of the civil war, she failed to mention slavery once. That is no surprise

The Guardian - US

Savannah picks emancipated Black woman to replace name of slavery advocate on historic square

Leaders of Georgia's oldest city have made history by voting to name one of Savannah's treasured downtown squares for a Black woman who taught formerly enslaved people to read and write

The Independent UK

Savannah considers Black people and women for city square to replace name of slavery advocate

The historic downtown of Savannah, Georgia, boasts nearly two dozen public squares

The Independent UK

945 state legislative special elections since 2010

Welcome to the Wednesday, July 19, Brew.

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US Vice-President Kamala Harris makes history with tiebreaking votes in Senate

NEW DELHI: Vice-President Kamala Harris made history again on Wednesday when she cast her 31st tiebreaking vote in the US Senate, tying the record set by John C Calhoun. Harris already holds the distinction of being the first woman/person of colour to serve as the US vice-president.

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Vice President Kamala Harris makes history with tiebreaking votes in Senate

Vice President Kamala Harris has tied the record for the most tiebreaking votes in the U.S. Senate

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Harris ties Calhoun’s 191-year-old record for breaking Senate ties

Vice President Kamala Harris tied a record set by John C. Calhoun for casting the most tie-breaking votes in the Senate.

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