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Signage about slavery is displayed on an outdoor exhibit at Independence National Historical Park in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, on October 24, 2025. (Photo by Michael Yanow/NurPhoto via Getty Images)

Philly sues over slavery exhibit removal

Jelinda Montes
Demonstrators protest the Trump administration's executive actions aimed at the Smithsonian Institution march to the National Museum of African American History and Culture on May 3, 2025. (Craig Hudson For The Washington Post via Getty Images)

Trump's crime against American history

Chauncey DeVega
An exhibition on the Black Power movement at the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture (Andrew Lichtenstein/Corbis via Getty Images)

Trump's Smithsonian war echoes the past

Austin Sarat
Smithsonian's National Museum of African American History and Culture (Getty/Preston Keres)

Trump: Museums too focused on history

Alex Galbraith
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New York Times columnist David Brooks, seen in Washington, D.C., in 2011. (Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)

David Brooks flunks history

Mike Lofgren
A collage of various Confederate and Soviet "memorabilia," including a bust of Vladimir Lenin, a statue of Robert E. Lee, and various postage stamps. (Illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

Toxic nostalgia: MAGA's Russia syndrome

Dzmitry Halko
Thomas Jefferson (Photo illustration by Salon/VCG Wilson/Corbis/Getty Images/HappyFoto)

How Black liberals fought a "dark age"

Paul Rosenberg
Ronald Reagan and Donald Trump (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

The haunting of Reagan's corruption

Brian Karem
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Joe Biden (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

Biden can finally end slavery in America

Deborah N. Archer
Dionne Warwick on "Finding Your Roots" (PBS)

Dionne Warwick uncovers slave ancestors

Nardos Haile
Ana Navarro on "The View" (ABC/Lou Rocco)

"The View" hosts clash over slavery

Nardos Haile
Republican presidential candidate former U.N. Ambassador Nikki Haley addresses the crowd during a campaign stop at the Nevada Fairgrounds community building on December 18, 2023 in Nevada, Iowa. (Scott Olson/Getty Images)

Haley deserves no grace for war gaffe

Heather Digby Parton
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Workers remove the statue of Robert E. Lee at the Marcus-David Peters circle prior to its removal on September 8, 2021 in Richmond, Virginia. (Eze Amos/Getty Images)

Were the Confederates right? Spoiler: no

Paul Rosenberg
Capture of John Brown in the engine house, Harpers Ferry, Virginia, USA, 1859 (c1880). Brown (1800-1859) believed that armed insurrection was the only way to end slavery in the United States. (The Print Collector/Print Collector/Getty Images)

What to America is John Brown?

Ailish Hopper
Republican presidential candidate Florida Governor Ron DeSantis speaks to guests at the Republican Party of Iowa 2023 Lincoln Dinner on July 28, 2023 in Des Moines, Iowa. (Scott Olson/Getty Images)

DeSantis' problem: He is a true believer

Amanda Marcotte
Supreme Court Justice John Roberts (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

SCOTUS will not have the last laugh

Michael S. Roth
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Nikole Hannah-Jones in "The 1619 Project." (Patti Perret/Hulu)

1619 on TV: "Justice requires repair"

Melanie McFarland
A man carries a handgun emblazoned with the Confederate battle flag during an unveiling of a monument to unknown Confederate dead at Confederate Veterans Memorial Park, which is owned privately, in Brantley, Ala., Aug. 27, 2017. (Kevin D. Liles/For the Washington Post/Getty Images)

Gun prevalence rooted in old divisions

Matthew Rozsa
The United States Supreme Court Building (Getty Images/Geoff Livingston)

SCOTUS descends into madness

Lucian K. Truscott IV
African American girl teenager female young woman in a field of wheat or barley crops wrapped in USA stars and stripes flag in golden sunset evening sunshine (Getty Images/dmbaker)

America needs its own Jubilee

Ariel Gold
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American Civil War, The Battle of Pea Ridge, Northwest Arkansas 1862. (Universal History Archive/UIG via Getty Images)

7 misconceptions about the Civil War

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Kentucky Derby (04/28/1973) (Getty Images/Bettmann)

An anthem of corrupt Southern nostalgia

Emily Bingham
Benjamin Franklin portrait by Joseph Siffred Duplessis (The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York)

Ken Burns on the flawed Ben Franklin

Hanh Nguyen
Josh Mandel (Chris Maddaloni/CQ Roll Call/Getty Images)

GOP Senate candidate's odd slavery claim

Jon Skolnik
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