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May 10, 2014
The Emancipationist Century
David Brion Davis's trilogy was fifty years in the making, and the final volume was worth the wait
February 11, 2014
The True Story of America's First Black Female Slave Novelist
The woman behind 'The Bondwoman's Narrative'
July 25, 2013
The Poetry of Frank O’Hara
Two poems originally published in the New Republic
August 24, 2011
Do Ideas Matter?
June 30, 2011
Telling War Stories
October 16, 2010
Out of the Margins
March 18, 2009
Gettysburg Regress
How the government is ruining America's most famous battlefield.
May 2, 2005
The Bookless Future
February 16, 2004
Devils in America
July 3, 1976
Every Man His Own Revolution
1776 and American Egotism
February 18, 1920
Abraham Lincoln Was Not A Man of the People
February 18, 1920
The Paradox of Lincoln

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