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Jefferson Davis
August 10, 2020
Bruce Bartlett
The Christian Devotion to a White America
Republicans like Tom Cotton gloss over the religion’s role in establishing slavery and perpetuating white supremacy.
May 18, 2017
Clint Smith
The Young Black Activists Targeting New Orleans’s Confederate Monuments
The group Take ‘Em Down NOLA has an ambitious goal—to rid the city of all its tributes to slavery’s defenders.
December 21, 2012
Sean Wilentz
Lincoln in Hollywood, from Griffith to Spielberg
October 26, 2011
Sean Wilentz
The Mirage
The long and tragical history of post-partisanship, from Washington to Obama.
September 14, 2011
Maya Jasanoff
The Trouble With Neutrality
June 30, 2011
Drew Gilpin Faust
Telling War Stories
May 13, 2011
Jonathan Chait
The Common Hysteria And What It Means
May 11, 2011
Michael Fitzgerald
Good Omens
December 26, 2010
E.J. Dionne Jr.
Confederacy of Dunces
April 19, 2010
Jonathan Chait
The Boss Hogg Oppo Research Project Begins
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