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Topic: American History (page 10)

George Washington, Robert E. Lee (Wikimedia)

Robert Lee's Southern tragedy

Jonathan Horn
(Wikimedia)

"Huck Finn" is not about race

Laura Miller
(AP)

Nixon's favorite liberal

Stephen Hess
(AP/Sid Hastings)

Selma is hardly history

Nicolaus Mills
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North's no better than South

Jason Sokol

A Thanksgiving responsibility

Billy J. Stratton
A turkey and Thomas Friedman (Reuters/Lucas Jackson/<a href='http://www.shutterstock.com/gallery-91190p1.html'>panbazil</a> via <a href='http://www.shutterstock.com/'>Shutterstock</a>/Salon)

Sorry Thanksgiving betrayals

Patrick L. Smith
Hilary Swank in "The Homesman" (Roadside Attractions)

Tommy Lee Jones' new classic

Andrew O'Hehir
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Martin Luther King, Jr., J. Edgar G. Hoover (AP)

Hoover's despicable letter

Luke Brinker
Edward E. Baptist (DeDe Hatch)

Lies we tell about slavery

Michael Schulson
John F. Kennedy (AP)

My date with President Kennedy

Thomas Maier
(Penguin/Stanley Staniski/Wikimedia)

The threat to America's soul

Laura Miller
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(AP/Library of Congress)

Mark C. Taylor

Brown's heroic slavery escape

Ezra Greenspan

North America is a crime scene

Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz
Ronald Reagan knocks his head while responding to a reporter's question at a news conference, March 19, 1987. (AP/Dennis Cook)

Why the GOP hates U.S. history

Sean McElwee
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(Reuters/Joe Burbank/Brendan McDermid/AP/Jason Decrow/photo montage by Salon)

This is our new Constitution

Andrew Burstein, Nancy Isenberg
A reenactment of the 135th anniversary of the Battle of Gettysburg in Gettysburg, Pa. (AP/Paul Vathis)

Jenny Kutner
"Signing of the Constitution" by Howard Chandler Christy (Architect of the Capitol)

We need a new constitution

Andrew Burstein

Rejecting equality

Todd Brewster
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Abraham Lincoln, Barack Obama (AP/Alexander Gardner/Pablo Martinez Monsivais/Salon)

Barack Obama's Lincoln problem

Todd Brewster
The Shores family, near Westerville, Neb., in 1887. Jerry Shores was one of a number of former slaves to settle in Custer County. (AP/Solomon D. Butcher)

We still lie about slavery

Edward E. Baptist

Damnation, American style

Kathryn Gin Lum
John W. Milam and Roy Bryant, who were charged with the murder of 14-year-old African American Emmett L.Till, and acquitted by an all-white jury. (AP)

A legacy predating Ferguson

Agunda Okeyo
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