It’s time for Democrats to ditch Andrew Jackson
As Biden speaks at event named for Old Hickory tonight, more appalling stories show party should dump him as icon
Friday, May 3, 2013 3:48 PM UTC 39Elections Andrew Jackson, Old Hickory
As Biden speaks at event named for Old Hickory tonight, more appalling stories show party should dump him as icon
Friday, May 3, 2013 3:48 PM UTC 39With Maryland becoming the latest state to abolish its use, we look back on capital punishment's tortured history
Wednesday, Apr 3, 2013 1:05 PM UTCA new ad from a black conservative group sees echoes of Jim Crow in proposals to expand background checks VIDEO
Thursday, Mar 21, 2013 4:24 PM UTC 17The Republican Attorney General said of both, "history has shown us what the right position was"
Wednesday, Mar 20, 2013 1:12 AM UTC 34[UPDATED] The panel was intended to teach Tea Partyers how to fight back against charges that they are racist VIDEO
Friday, Mar 15, 2013 9:02 PM UTC 81A fourth-grade teacher hands out math problems using dead slaves as units of measurement
Friday, Feb 22, 2013 4:36 PM UTC 70Ed Markey brought the case up, but he's not the one constantly "equating" stuff with Dred Scott
Thursday, Feb 21, 2013 10:55 PM UTC 28The state finally ratified the Thirteenth Amendment but modern-day slavery is still thriving
Thursday, Feb 21, 2013 10:00 PM UTCJon Stewart mocks Mississippi for finally catching up to the 19th century VIDEO
Thursday, Feb 21, 2013 1:59 PM UTCThe dark side of immigration reform: A new "guest worker program" that's as close as we may get to modern slavery
Wednesday, Jan 30, 2013 12:00 AM UTC 14The House GOP is learning about “successful communication with minorities and women" in a very unusual setting
Thursday, Jan 17, 2013 6:23 PM UTC 24Historians question whether Spielberg has made the 16th president into an unrealistic hero
Thursday, Jan 17, 2013 12:45 PM UTC 37Lincoln's unfinished war rages on, as the neo-Confederacy tries to turn back the clock on women, gays, God and guns
Saturday, Jan 5, 2013 4:30 PM UTC 203"Django Unchained" is the perfect revenge fantasy for black people -- except that it was made by a white man
Thursday, Dec 27, 2012 5:44 PM UTC 36The famous film director refuses to see Tarantino's latest movie
Wednesday, Dec 26, 2012 3:15 PM UTC 29"Django Unchained" has action, comedy, fake history and oceans of blood -- but it's an endless, undisciplined mess
Wednesday, Dec 26, 2012 2:39 PM UTC 57A new book tries -- and often fails -- to untangle its complicated legacy in American popular culture
Saturday, Nov 17, 2012 9:00 PM UTCIn Spielberg's "Lincoln," a vilified president outfoxes his hateful opponents in a bitterly divided America
Saturday, Nov 3, 2012 10:00 PM UTC 23Forget Sally Hemings -- a historian discovers the ugliest side of a founding father in his ledgers
Sunday, Oct 14, 2012 10:00 PM UTC 60Republican Rep. Jon Hubbard is the latest to deem it a blessing. His position is not as uncommon as you'd think
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