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His acquittal is only the latest reminder that life and liberty have always been about the protection of property.
Slave-trading nations including the United States paid off enslavers for their “loss of services” and even billed Haiti, with interest, for claiming liberté, égalité, fraternité.
Two-month-old design is tossed after school acknowledges its subtle nod to walls that once hid enslaved people on Thomas Jefferson’s campus.
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Footage shows demonstrators at George Floyd protest taking down the top part of a statue of city founder Charles Linn.
The Declaration of Independence is an uncanny warning for today. And no matter how many the outrages, the Republicans have become the King’s party.
Among the complaints against King George in the Declaration of Independence? That he “has obstructed the administration of justice.”
As the working class expanded and fragmented, cultural appeals replaced economic ones and organized labor, and laborers, paid the cost.
The fortunes of this historic beverage have gone up and down over the last several centuries.
When fire ravaged the Library of Congress in 1851, the cultural casualties included portraits of America’s first three presidents—Washington, Adams and Jefferson—by Gilbert Stuart.
Uriah P. Levy’s obscurity reflects the lingering impact of the anti-Semitism that dismissed his accomplishments—yet also inspired his devotion to Thomas Jefferson.
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