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Trump signs bill authorizing war on terror memorial
David Caplan, ABC News [JB note: Am surprised by how little attention the below has received from the media, given the recent, continuing controversy re preserving Confederate monuments ... one can...
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Understanding Moscow: The Mysteries of the Russian Mindset
Christian Neef, spiegel.deimage from articleRecently, I came across a book at home that I hadn't thought about in a long time. It's called "Russia: Faces of a Torn Country." The title may not be...
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Sally Hemings, Thomas Jefferson and the Ways We Talk About Our Past
Annette Gordon-Reed, Aug. 24, 2017, New York TimesImage from article, with caption: A photograph of Monticello from the late 1800sIt has been 20 years since the historian Annette Gordon-Reed published...
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It’s no surprise we’re refighting the Civil War — it never really ended -...
washingtonpost.comTwo people put up a sign that says "Heather Heyer Park" at the base of the Confederate general Robert E. Lee monument in Emancipation Park. (Julia Rendleman/Associated Press)By Eugene...
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Ukraine has finally removed all 1,320 Lenin statues. Our turn. - Note for a...
washingtonpost.comA police officer looks up at a monument of Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee in Richmond. (Michael Reynolds/European Pressphoto Agency)By Anne Applebaum Columnist August 25 at 7:53 PM I...
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Catholic school removes Jesus statues to be ‘more inclusive’
Art Moore, wnd.comuncaptioned image from article167-year-old California institution fears 'alienating' studentsParents of students at a Catholic school in the San Francisco Bay area are protesting the...
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Even With Affirmative Action, Blacks and Hispanics Are More Underrepresented...
By JEREMY ASHKENAS, HAEYOUN PARK and ADAM PEARCE,New York Times, AUG. 24, 2017[original article contains numerous charts as well as links]image fromEven after decades of affirmative action, black and...
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Memorize That Poem!
Molly Worthen, New York Times, AUG. 26, 2017[original article contains links]image from articleLATE one night this spring, Justin Snider, an assistant dean at Columbia University,was riding the uptown...
View ArticleW.E.B. DuBois on Robert E. Lee - Note for a discussion, "E Pluribus Unum?...
via JB on Facebook -- Many thanks!cwmemory.comYesterday I shared a brief passage from W.E.B. DuBois on Confederate monuments. Below is an short essay from DuBois on Robert E. Lee’s legacy published in...
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How I discovered my childhood priest was in the Ku Klux Klan
washingtonpost.comHe had taught me to venerate Confederate history.Father William Aitcheson is taking a leave of absence. (AP/Courtesy of the Catholic Diocese of Arlington, Va.)By Maria Santos Bier...
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Pelosi Mum on Her Father Dedicating Lee, Jackson Statues
John Gizzi, newsmax.comImage from article, with caption: Former Baltimore Mayor Thomas D'Alesandro, Jr., the father of Nancy Pelosi, praised the statues of Robert E. Lee and Stonewall Jackson when they...
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Slavery in the North - Note for a discussion, "E Pluribus Unum? What Keeps...
Douglas Harper, slavenorth.com; see also (1)image fromNorthern slavery grew out of the paradox the new continent presented to its European masters. So much land was available, so cheaply, that no one...
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The Conquered Banner - one of the most popular of the post-Civil War...
wikipedia.orgFrom Wikipedia, the free encyclopediaFather Ryan's portrait and signature"The Conquered Banner" was one of the most popular of the post-Civil War Confederate poems. It was written by Roman...
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I'm a black daughter of the Confederacy, and this is how we should deal with...
Lisa Richardson, Los Angeles Times, Via PR -- Many thanks!Image from article, with caption: A monument honoring General Robert E. Lee on Monument Avenue in Richmond, Virginia, on August 24As monuments...
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So Trump Makes Spelling Errors. In the Twitter Age, Whoo Doesn’t? - Note for...
[JB note: An answer to the above question: Certainly not how college students spell - and how poorly spell-check catches orthographic errors.]Farhad Manjoo, New York Times, AUG. 27, 2017 [original...
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The Biggest Misconception About Today’s College Students
Gail O. Mellow, New York Times, AUG. 28, 2017[original article contains links]image from articleYou might think the typical college student lives in a state of bliss, spending each daymoving among...
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Racial content sweeps away ‘Gone With the Wind’ screening - Note for a...
AP, sfgate.com; thanks for the lead, AF.image from articleMEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) — A Tennessee theater has canceled a long-running screening of "Gone With the Wind" because of racially insensitive content...
View ArticleTrump and the Disunited States of America (ongoing entry)
James Fallows, The Atlantic (August 23): "[W]ith every day that passes without their doing something about it, the stain and responsibility for Trump’s ungoverned tone stick more lastingly to the...
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Modern Liberalism’s False Obsession With Civil War Monuments: Note for a...
wsj.comBlack accomplishments in the ’40s and ’50s prove that today’s setbacks are not due to slavery.A statue of Confederate Gen. Thomas Jonathan "Stonewall" Jackson in Richmond, Va., Aug. 23. PHOTO:...
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When Machines Run Amok
Wall Street JournalThe author was taken aback when he observed an AI program teach itself to play an arcade game—much better than its human designers. Frank Rose reviews ‘Life 3.0’ by Max...
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