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Psyche
The Reign of One’s Own Desire
January 15, 2020Sheldon George, Daniel Gaztambide
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History
Reparations, Atonement, or Both
January 3, 2020Troy Mosley
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Race
It’s Personal: Changing How White People Think About Racism
October 11, 2019Marcia Ely
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“Well Known as Miss Betty Cooper”
December 20, 2018Caitlin G.D. Hopkins
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Monuments to Men
August 29, 2018Martha S. Jones
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Feature
This is Your America
June 15, 2018Neil Roberts
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Memory, Justice, History, and the “Right” to be Forgotten
May 4, 2018Tim Lacy
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Who Is Allowed to Speak For North Koreans?
March 21, 2018Reid Mitchell
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Presidential Visits to Yad Vashem
June 8, 2017Michael Weinman
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Against Exceptionalism, Beyond Triumphalism
September 24, 2016Jay Driskell
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Race
Slaves: The Capital that Made Capitalism
August 20, 2015Julia Ott
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Race
Actually Essential Reading About the Confederacy
June 29, 2015Joshua D. Rothman

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