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Sick from freedom
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Jim Downs |
"Bondspeople who fled from slavery during and after the Civil War did not expect that their flight toward freedom would lead to sickness, disease, suffering, and death. But the war produced the large… |
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Humankind
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Rutger Bregman |
Der Historiker Rutger Bregman setzt sich in seinem Buch mit dem Wesen des Menschen auseinander. Anders als in der westlichen Denktradition angenommen ist der Mensch nicht böse, sondern, so Bregman, i… |
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Beyond freedom
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Patricia Q. Wall |
"'It's hopeless for us.' Five years ago, young Matty Warren never dreamed of saying such a thing. When her family gained their freedom in Portsmouth, New Hampshire, and moved to the North Slope Villa… |
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The death of Reconstruction
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Heather Cox Richardson |
"Historians overwhelmingly have blamed the demise of Reconstruction on the South and on white Americans' persistent racism. Heather Cox Richardson argues instead that class, along with race, was crit… |
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