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Juneteenth celebrates just one of the United States’ 20 emancipation days – and the history of how emancipated people were kept unfree needs to be remembered, too

The actual day was June 19, 1865, and it was the Black dockworkers in Galveston, Texas, who first heard the word that freedom for the enslaved had come. There were speeches, sermons and shared meals, mostly held at Black churches, the safest places to have such celebrations.

The Conversation

Believing the Big Lie won’t make it true

Some beliefs are not based on facts, and some people hold beliefs in spite of the facts.

Chicago Sun-Times

Is Twitter-Famous Princeton Historian Kevin Kruse a Plagiarist?

His 2000 thesis on civil-rights-era Atlanta lifts passages from other people's work.

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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

The Guardian - US

Editorial: National suicide plays out one murderous mass shooting at a time

Perhaps this is how it all ends — self-government, self-defense, self-control, liberty, unity, family. Perhaps the fate of the nation is to watch its soul die along with the at least 19 students and two adults shot to death Tuesday at an elementary school in Uvalde, Texas. This is us,…

Los Angeles Times

Linda Greenhouse Lives in a Bizarro World on Dobbs

To Greenhouse, overruling Roe is an act of "judicial activism" and "raw power."

Reason

Who Are The 9 Poorest Presidents Of All Time?

While the great majority of U.S presidents have been wealthy, the coveted role in the Oval Office doesn’t necessarily translate to big dollars. Some of the presidents with the lowest net worth came from humble beginnings: Abraham Lincoln, Andrew Johnson and James Garfield were born in wood cabins.

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Commentary: We’ve expanded the Supreme Court before. It’s time to do so again

With the leak of Justice Samuel Alito’s draft opinion overturning Roe v. Wade generating shockwaves across the country, Supreme Court expansion is once again emerging as a serious proposal in response to the extreme partisanship overtaking our nation’s highest court. Throughout our nation’s history, federal lawmakers have expanded and reduced…

Tribune News Service

The US Civil War drastically reshaped how Americans deal with death – will the pandemic?

More than 1 million people living in the United States have died of COVID-19 during the past two years.

The Conversation

Lynn Schmidt: True leaders practice the art of persuasion. Others tweet out trash talk

There is something that has been sorely missing in the United States in the last decade — soaring rhetoric. We are lacking leaders who, like Abraham Lincoln, appeal to our better angels through their ability to craft rhetoric that resonates in people’s hearts and minds.

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

Bob Odenkirk winds down his journey as Jimmy McGill, uh, Saul Goodman, no, Gene Takavic

Bob Odenkirk doesn't remember anything about his heart attack last summer — not the CPR, not the three defibrillator zaps that brought him back to life and nothing from the eight days he spent recuperating at Albuquerque Presbyterian Hospital. Even the week after he went home is sketchy. He vaguely…

Los Angeles Times

7 misconceptions about the Civil War

No. 4. All amputations were done without anesthesia.

Salon

Lincoln College closes after 157 years, blaming COVID-19 and cyberattack disruptions

It's a shocking turnaround for a small Illinois college that welcomes first-generation students and qualifies as a predominantly Black institution.

WEKU

Illinois historically Black college to close after 157 years

A historically Black college in central Illinois that saw its enrollment plummet during the COVID-19 pandemic says it has been unable to recover and must close its doors after 157 years

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10 Weirdest Conspiracy Theories: Jesus In Japan, Catherine The Great's Horse, And Who Really Killed JFK?

In the classic Western "The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance," there is a famous line that says "When the legend becomes fact, print the legend." However, printing a legend doesn't turn it into a fact - a situation that has been affirmed over the centuries as bizarre rumors, urban legends…

Salon

25 unknown facts about Thomas Jefferson

Apparently the third president harvested opium and had a pet mockingbird named Dick

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

Lynn Schmidt: Remembering the struggles of Ulysses Grant

On this anniversary of the birth of Hiram Ulysses Grant, 200 years ago Wednesday, he is remembered as the 18th president of the United States, commander of the U.S. Army during the Civil War and national hero. He can also be thought of as an ordinary human being who struggled…

The Independent UK

Legacy of Ulysses S. Grant complicated 200 years after birth

This month marks the 200th anniversary of the birth of Civil War general and two-term president Ulysses S

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Salon

Lessons of the Radical Republicans

Their crusade to remake America after the Civil War fell short — but it was one of our nation's finest hours

Los Angeles Times

Ben Franklin was the most famous American of his era. Ken Burns' new doc shows why

If we are reckoning by money, Benjamin Franklin — the man on the $100 bill — is 20 times as important as Abraham Lincoln, 100 times as important as George Washington and 10 times as important as Alexander Hamilton, notwithstanding "Hamilton." This is bad math, of course, because there is…

Chicago Sun-Times

Congress must keep COVID-19 money flowing to help the uninsured

Chicago has sponsored hundreds of events to ensure equitable access to vaccines and testing. The announcement that all funding of these resources for the uninsured will end undermines this work.

Chicago Sun-Times

From smoke-filled rooms to rickety Wigwam to a ‘police riot,’ Chicago’s political convention history is a rich one

Although Chicago hasn’t hosted a major party gathering in more than a quarter of a century, the city was historically the nation’s most popular site for national political conventions.

Chicago Sun-Times

Relax: Chicago has done this before

Organizers of the 2024 Democratic National Convention consider Chicago with its 162 years of experience.

Reason

Want To Stop School Book Battles? Give Parents Real Choice in Education

State-level "gag orders" on teaching certain texts and ideas are terrible and utterly predictable in a one-size-fits-all K-12 educational system.

Reason

The 1619 Project Unrepentantly Pushes Junk History

Nikole Hannah-Jones' new book sidesteps scholarly critics while quietly deleting previous factual errors.

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