#Confederacy

This single image traces the currect theological outlook of both the Abrahamics. Never thought it's this straightforward. What does this image represent?1. Jesus is divine is not accepted even till
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This year I've started assigning something I call "Weekly Encounters" where students get credit for telling me how they "encountered" our course content out in the wild. The goal is
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LGBTQ RIGHTS IN POLAND - A THREADtw homophobia, transphobia, suicide I've seen a lot of misinformation about this, often in good faith, so I want to clear it up for
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I'm not sure what, in particular, dragged this thought across my mind this morning. I suspect it's the low boil of disgust at the "bootstrap" mentality--especially when it's targeted at
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White people are the problem.There are probably other, lesser, takeaways from this election, too. The question is, what could possibly shock white people enough to turn away from our nation's
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In less than 9 months in 1889 into 1890, Congress admitted six new states to the Union. The politics of that outburst of statehood aren't just interesting history. It suggests
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𝑹𝒂𝒏𝒂 π‘Ίπ’‚π’π’ˆπ’‚ - 𝑻𝒉𝒆 π‘¬π’Žπ’‘π’†π’“π’π’“ 𝒐𝒇 𝑾𝒐𝒖𝒏𝒅𝒔"𝐼 π˜©π‘Žπ‘£π‘’ π‘›π‘œ π‘‘π‘’π‘ π‘–π‘Ÿπ‘’ π‘‘π‘œ π‘ π‘’π‘“π‘“π‘’π‘Ÿ 𝑑𝑀𝑖𝑐𝑒, 𝑖
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Thread: How the enslaved in Brazil used the u.s. civil war (1861-1865) to force Brazilian slavemasters into the crisis that led to "abolition".First, some very quick background. 1) More slaves
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You may have heard that the US Capitol Building was built with slave labor. That's true.But what most people don't know is the extraordinary story behind the statue that sits
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1/ @Jimmy_Dore interviewed me in 2016, but never aired.This time, I went on to talk about my new film. Even after he berated me, I used kid-gloves. Ten days of
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Here’s why it’s different to me citizens died inside the most sacred institution. Bc the President emboldened his supporters to rise up....because 7 million more people voted
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Biden's personal narrative of weathering tragedy and loss happened to sync up with the awful experience of millions of Americans in 2020, in a way that (from a campaign's point
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Good morning, it's Monday, if you teach in North America you should know about the city of #Cahokia (https://whc.unesco.org/en/list/198/ ), the kingdom it was the heart of, the pyramids they built,
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Every person on the left believes they just survived the parallel to the rise of Nazism in Germany and they defeated it.They stopped it.They believe all Republicans are 1950's white
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Hi there-Civil War historian here. So, uh...this is really, really far from "The Truth." Got a minute? /1https://twitter.com/senatormcdaniel/status/1029916257490018304 2/ Lee certainly did not believe slavery was wrong. In an 1856
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I used to be an @GOP voter. I started life as an @TheDemocrats but as I grew older and worked in conservative environments later in life, my voting trended that
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