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Lauren O'Neill Butler on Shotgun Houses, Segregation, and the Art of Rick Lowe and John Biggers
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Lauren O'Neill Butler
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How Two Versions of a Family Story Sparked a Writer's Quest for Truth
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Grace Elizabeth Hale
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How a Group of Black Activists Inspired Solidarity and Struggle in Mississippi
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How White Supremacy Was Codified Into Law in America
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Margaret A. Burnham
| September 28, 2022
Emily Bingham on the Material Culture of White America’s Song to Itself: “My Old Kentucky Home”
“It was from the outset a blackface minstrel tune, entertainment built on slavery and the trade in human beings.”
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Emily Bingham
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David Wright Faladé on the Case for Civil War Revisionism in Film and Literature
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