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Johnny Van Zant of Lynyrd Skynyrd waves an American flag while the band performs onstage (Kevin Winter/Getty Images for iHeartMedia)

What went wrong in America — sort of

Kirk Swearingen
Thomas Jefferson (The Print Collector/Getty Images)

It's time to let go of Jefferson

Lindsay Beyerstein - Alternet
View of the Confederate memorial, with an added Confederate flag made out of flowers, Jasper, Alabama, 2010. (Carol M. Highsmith/Buyenlarge/Getty Images)

White America's "hidden wound"

Kirk Swearingen
People gather around the Robert E. Lee statue on Monument Avenue in Richmond, Virginia, on June 4, 2020, amid continued protests over the death of George Floyd in police custody. (Ryan M. Kelly/AFP via Getty Images)

Robert E. Lee and the Trumpers

Chauncey DeVega
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Thomas Jefferson (Photo illustration by Salon/VCG Wilson/Corbis/Getty Images/HappyFoto)

America's myths are destroying us

Donald Earl Collins
Sen. Josh Hawley (R-MO) (Kent Nishimura / Los Angeles Times via Getty Images)

Why does Josh Hawley hate America?

Thom Hartmann - Independent Media Institute
Ku Klux Klan Marching in Washington | American civil rights campaigner Martin Luther King (1929 - 1968) and his wife Coretta Scott King lead a black voting rights march from Selma, Alabama, to the state capital in Montgomery (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

GOP's war on truth gets serious

Chauncey DeVega
Texas Gov. Greg Abbott (Tamir Kalifa/Getty Images)

Texas GOP wants to ban MLK Jr. in school

Jon Skolnik
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"The Second: Race and Guns in a Fatally Unequal America" by Caro Anderson (Photo illustration by Salon/Stephen Nowland/Emory University/Bloomsbury Publishing)

Racist history of the Second Amendment

Dean Obeidallah
(Grace Cary/Getty Images)

Evangelical snowflakes censor the Bible

Paul Rosenberg
Texas Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick (Lynda M. Gonzalez-Pool/Getty Images)

Texas GOP cancels Alamo history event

Jon Skolnik
Charlie Kirk, founder and executive director of Turning Point USA (Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)

Pro-Trump pundit compares weed, slavery

Zachary Petrizzo
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William Jackson Harper in "Underground Railroad" (Atsushi Nishijima/Amazon)

Story behind "The Underground Railroad"

William Nash - The Conversation
Mitch McConnell and the University of Louisville Cardinals mascot (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

Mitch McConnell rebuked by alma mater

Jon Skolnik
In this still image from video provided by the Tennessee General Assembly, Rep. Justin Lafferty, R-Knoxville, speaks on the floor of the House of Representatives at the State Capitol in Nashville, Tenn., on Tuesday, May 4, 2021. Lafferty falsely declared that an 18th century policy designating a slave as three-fifths of a person was adopted for “the purpose of ending slavery,” commenting amid a debate over whether educators should be restricted while teaching about systematic racism in America. (Tennessee General Assembly)

Republicans suddenly defend slavery

Jon Skolnik
Kentucky Derby at Churchill Downs (Jamie Squire/Getty Images)

Is "My Old Kentucky Home" pro-slavery?

Christopher Lynch
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Ray Garofalo speaks at Louisiana House Education Committee hearing (Louisiana House of Representatives)

GOP Rep: Teach kids "good" in slavery

Zachary Petrizzo
Mitch McConnell and John Calhoun (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

White supremacy and the filibuster

Carl Pope
Don Lemon, author of "This Is the Fire: What I Say to My Friends About Racism" (Roy Rochlin/FilmMagic/Getty Images)

CNN's Don Lemon on Trump, race, America

Dean Obeidallah
Sen. Josh Hawley addresses attendees at the 2021 CPAC (Paul Hennessy/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images)

Hawley hometown paper slams CPAC speech

Matthew Chapman - Raw Story
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President Abraham Lincoln (Matthew Brady/Buyenlarge/Getty Images)

A fascinating, complex dive into Lincoln

Matthew Rozsa
Donald Trump | The Confederate Flag | Mt. Rushmore (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

Answer to military dilemma: Fort Trump!

Roger Sollenberger
Engraving of the Stratford House in Westmoreland County, Virginia, the birthplace of Richard Henry Lee and Francis Lightfoot Lee, signers of the Declaration of Independence, 1845. Where the enslaved cook Caesar worked. From the New York Public Library. (Smith Collection/Gado/Getty Images)

The history of chocolate and slavery

Kelley Fanto Deetz - The Conversation
The Good Lord Bird (William Gray/SHOWTIME)

A zany take on abolitionist John Brown

Melanie McFarland
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