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The US has pardoned insurrectionists twice before – and both times, years of violent racism followed

Donald Trump is the third U.S. president to pardon a large group of insurrectionists. His clemency toward those convicted of crimes related to the Jan. 6, 2021, insurrection – including seditious conspiracy and assaults on police officers – was different in key ways from the two previous efforts, by Andrew…

The Conversation

Forrest Gump at 30: a wildly popular movie that remains as light as a feather

Tom Hanks is an affecting lead but the popularity of Robert Zemeckis’s much-loved Oscar-winner is still a curious mystery

The Guardian - US

Unmasking the Klansman

A new book reveals the untold story of a Ku Klux Klan member’s literary double life under the names of both Asa and Forrest Carter.

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Right-wing fake history is nothing new

We're a Christian nation! The Civil War wasn't about slavery! Fighting Hitler was a mistake! The lies run deep

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Klan War: how Ulysses S Grant took the fight to the extreme right

Historian Fergus Bordewich salutes the civil war general turned 18th president for his attempt to reconstruct the south

The Guardian - US

If America fails to punish its insurrectionists, it could see a wave of domestic terror

We must not repeat the mistakes of the years after the 1860s war for white supremacy that we call the civil war

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