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Pyramid Scheming

Pyramid Scheming

Lakota Power

Lakota Power

Liberia, Mexico and Racial Republicanism

Liberia, Mexico and Racial Republicanism

Cultural Expressions

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Cultural Expressions

John Crutchfield: Go West

John Crutchfield: Go West

White Southerners and the American Civil War by Paul Quigley

White Southerners and the American Civil War by Paul Quigley

Theresa Runstedtler on Jack Johnson

Theresa Runstedtler on Jack Johnson

Patrick Downey on Jack “Legs” Diamond

Patrick Downey on Jack “Legs” Diamond

Howard Zinn on the Limitations of American History Books

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Howard Zinn on the Limitations of American History Books

Matthew Clavin: Beside Toussaint Louverture

Matthew Clavin: Beside Toussaint Louverture

Calvin Schermerhorn: Family and Freedom

Calvin Schermerhorn: Family and Freedom

Extravagant Pulse of the Continent!

The legend of the Pony Express is “a tale of truth, half-truth and no truth at all.”

Why the United States might never have come into existence without the help of Haiti

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Howard Zinn reads the introduction to ‘A People’s History of the United States’

Geostrategic appreciation: a winning attribute in the American Civil War

Romancing the robber barron

Migrant Mother and the puzzling business of picture as pastoral

‘If Roth is right, electing a bad President is dangerous and inciting people to hate any President, good or bad, could be deadly’

‘…in the autumn of 2009 no one is making a convincing case that the 21st century could still become an American one’