Slavery Abolition

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In the next few years, many Americans understand, the Supreme Court may provide answers to some of the most hotly contested questions of constitutional law—the scope of affirmative action and federal power, for example, or the future of Roe v. Wade. What fewe…

First annual picnic of the Knights of Labor, 1882. (Niday Picture Library / Alamy Stock Photo / Joseph Keppler) All men are created equal. Today, it is difficult to appreciate the radicalism of Thomas Jeffersons almost matter-of-fact pronouncement in the Dec…

Americas Constitution was once celebrated as a radical and successful blueprint for democratic governance, a model for fledgling republics across the world. But decades of political gridlock, electoral corruption, and dysfunction in our system of government h…

Getting outside the four corners Getty The Reading Wars are a series of debates about how best to teach reading to small humans, and while the intensity of the debates themselves ebb and flow, the dates have been raging for only slightly fewer years than th…

Jerome Braun writes in interdisciplinary social science with some emphasis on culture and personality and on democracy from a cross-cultural perspective. He was a Research Student in Industrial Relations at the London School of Economics, which resulted in hi…

Artist George Gray Barnard didn't use photographs of Abraham Lincoln to create his bronze statue. Instead, he used Lincoln's life masks to create the mold of his face. It was cast of his face before his assassination.  (Photo: Cara Owsley, The Enquirer/Cara …

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Skip to comments. After Blowback, Ocasio-Cortez Clarifies D.C. Slavery Claimwww.dailywire.com ^ | By James Barrett September 20, 2019 Posted on 09/20/2019 1:47:56 PM PDT by Red Badger One of the ways Democrats are hoping to gain more electoral and congre…

John Brown saw bloodshed as a necessary means to end slavery, but were his actions historically justified or terribly misguided? As an abolitionist, John Brown was of a highly particular kind. It wasn’t merely the fact that he was white that distinguished hi…