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Caleb McDaniel
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The year 1860 would like a word. In all seriousness, the tendency not to see the secession crisis as an election crisis says interesting things about the memory of the
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As long as we're all here waiting, let me tell you about James Forten and the long struggle for voting rights in Philadelphia. Forten was born a free man in
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1. Here's a short thought experiment that might help students or others understand why historians today reject "states' rights" as the cause of the Civil War. Imagine that 150 years
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Part of what the #1619Project tries to do, especially lead essay by @nhannahjones, is expand our notion of who counts as "the Founders." James Forten didn't see slavery as a
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