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How should opposing armies be commemorated on a battlefield? Gettysburg offers an especially interesting example of today’s debates over Confederate monuments.
The only other political censure in the history of Congress—that of abolitionist Joshua Giddings in 1842—was bound up with the struggle against slavery that culminated in the Civil War.
She championed both abolition and women’s rights. And she wasn’t afraid to challenge advocates of either cause.
“Part of remembering,” historian David Blight once observed, “is forgetting.” Perhaps nowhere is this truer than the nation of Poland, where so-called memory wars have been waged over the country’s role in the Holocaust. These battles are at the heart of Judy Rakowsky’s new book, Jews in the Garden: A Holocaust Survivor, the Fate of His Family, and the Secret History of Poland in World War II.
The University held a posthumous degree conferral for the late Rev. James W.C. Pennington and Rev. Alexander Crummell Thursday evening.