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Voting by Mail Dates Back to America’s Earliest Years. Here’s How It’s Changed Over the Years
Even the scattered examples of absentee voting (the terms ... historian Alex Keyssar’s book The Right to Vote: The Contested History of Democracy in the United States, and the votes of some ...
Time8y
The Disturbing History of African-Americans and Medical Research Goes Beyond Henrietta Lacks
But there’s a lot more to that history. “Tuskegee shouldn’t be the first thing people think of,” Harriet A. Washington, the author of Medical Apartheid, tells TIME. “It’s the example ...
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The New York Times Magazine’s 1619 Project takes a hard look at the American paradox of freedom and slavery
The New York Times Magazine’s new 1619 Project is a special edition that reframes American history around one date: August 1619, when the first slave ship arrived on America’s shores.
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For Decades, Our Coverage Was Racist. To Rise Above Our Past, We Must Acknowledge It
But when we decided to devote our April magazine to the topic of race, we thought we should examine our own history before turning our reportorial gaze to others. Race is not a biological ...
Smithsonian Magazine7y
How Native American Slaveholders Complicate the Trail of Tears Narrative
Titled “Finding Common Ground,” the symposium offered a deep dive into intersectional African-American and Native American history. For museum curator Paul Chaat Smith (Comanche), who has ...