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In an Early Republic period defined by expansion and concurrent policies such as Andrew Jackson’s Indian Removal Act, national narratives seemed to have no place for Native Americans. But the novelist and activist Sedgwick offered a different vision of that foundational American community, creating in her historical novel Hope Leslie a case for what she called (in the book’s preface) “their high-souled courage and patriotism.” And her character Magawisca, a young Pequot woman who narra...

Railton explores the connections between America’s past and present.  On Martin Luther King Jr. Day, the Trump administration’s 1776 Commission released their report, a self-described “definitive chronicle of the American founding.” Like the commission overall, the report was intended as an overt rebuttal to the New York Times’s 1619 Project, as illustrated by the opening section on slavery and the founding of America: “The most common charge levelled against the founders, and he...

The struggle for religious freedom — from Thomas Jefferson to Black Lives Matter Out of Americas paradoxical history of religious liberty comes a great push for Black freedom and racial justice January 23, 2021 5:08PM (UTC) Thomas Jefferson | Black Lives Matter Plaza poster is seen on a building on the 16th Street NW next to the St. Johns Episcopal Church (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images) --

Beto O’Rourke, the former El Paso City Council member, U.S. congressman, and Senate and presidential candidate, is about to earn another title: professor. O’Rourke will teach a seminar about the struggle for voting rights in Texas at the LBJ School of Public Affairs at the University of Texas starting in January, O’Rourke and school officials told the American-Statesman. The class, titled Texas Democracy and the Fight for Representation, will examine democracy in action, Texas legislative...

AUSTIN, Texas — Beto O’Rourke, the former El Paso City Council member, U.S. congressman and Senate and presidential candidate, is about to earn another title: Professor.