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<p>The excision of terms like "systemic" from the AP African American Studies curriculum suggest either an idiosyncratic review process or an attempt to avoid the specific triggering keywords of the right's complaints about liberal education. </p>
What academic historians can learn from Robin Blackburn, Taylor Branch, Robert Caro, James Fallows, Howard French, Neal Gabler, Adam Hochschild, Harold Holzer, Nicholas Lemann, Anthony Lukas, and Isabel Wilkerson.
White Lion and the Treasurer immediately set sail for Virginia, where they hoped to sell their cargo. According to a letter written by the colony’s secretary, John Rolfe, to the Virginia Company of London treasurer, Sir Edwin Sandys, the White Lion arrived first and landed at Point Comfort sometime late in August, having lost its “consort shipp” on the passage from the West Indies. Rolfe described the ship as a “Dutch man of Warr,” perhaps because it bore Dutch letters of marque. “He brought not any thing but 20. and odd Negroes,” Rolfe wrote, which the governor, Argall’s su...