The most politically divided time in US democracy coincided with a boom in new communications technologies, confrontational political influencers and widespread disinformation. It wasn’t 2024.
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Born enslaved, John Andrew Jackson spent his life fighting for freedom as a fugitive, abolitionist, lecturer and writer. Along the way, he met an aspiring writer.
There was one central reason the Civil War happened.
Why did Confederate flags start appearing in the country’s anti-lockdown protests?
‘Uncle Tom’s Cabin,’ the best seller of the 19th century, is not a relic from the past. The complex Uncle Tom figure still has a hold over Black politics.
Books, movies and records that seem to challenge racism also subtly advance the idea that progress shouldn’t happen too quickly.
Stereotypes of Black women continue to impact how they are treated in institutions.
Many groups have been labeled ‘enemy’ in the American past. A literary scholar looks at the role literature and philosophy have played in dispelling fears and shifting public attitudes.
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Canada Research Chair, Professor in Performance, Toronto Metropolitan University
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Associate Professor of Philosophy, Dickinson College
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Professor of English, Clemson University
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Professor of English, College of Liberal Arts Dean, Honors College, UMass Boston
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Professor and Chair of History Department, Colorado State University
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Provost’s PhD Fellow in English Literature, USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences
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Political History Curator, Smithsonian Institution