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White Supremicist Calls Charleston 'A Preview Of Coming Attractions'
Harold Covington's followers speculate if his work influenced Roof's actions...
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We Did What Scalia Said And "Asked The Nearest Hippie"
In the dissenting opinion of the Supreme Court's ruling on marriage equality, Justice Antonin Scalia memorably wrote...
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Gary Snyder, 'Poet Laureate of Our Continent,' Lives In The Present
"I'm one of those people in whom the experiential and the intellectual is not clearly divided,"....
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"They're Trying To Be King Of The Mormons"
Inside the epic presidential rivalry that tore the Romney and Huntsman clans apart...
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The Straight Interracial Couple Who Paved The Way For Gay Marriage
The court's ruling in Loving v. Virginia -- and the states' reactions to it -- serve as a good history lesson for what may lie ahead for gay marriage...
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Saranac Lake Researchers Continue Fight Against Disease
The nonprofit biomedical research facility was founded in 1884 by Dr. Edward Livingston Trudeau (1848-1915) -- great-grandfather of "Doonesbury" cartoonist Garry Trudeau...
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How The Grateful Dead Became Immortal
Over the Fourht of July weekend, the Grateful Dead culminate 50 years of performing with a series of final concerts. Here's a great portrait of the band in its heyday...
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Eric Foner On The Past And Present Of White Supremacy
South Carolina is hardly alone in refusing to confront the burdens of history, celebrated historian tells Salon...
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Black Earth: The Holocaust As History And Warning
All history is contemporary history...
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Adjunct Crisis
I am an adjunct professor who teaches five classes. I earn less than a pet-sitter...