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<p>Historians for Peace and Democracy condemns recent legislation restricting the content of history classes and libraries and censoring the freedom to teach and learn about racism and LGBTQ history. The group urges college faculty to join with their local K-12 educators and librarians. </p>
Some fear that if children learn about slavery, they will lose respect for the founders. But they can appreciate those who fought for equality.
The First Reconstruction: Black Politics in America from the Revolution to the Civil War (UNC Press 2021) by Van Gosse, Franklin and Marshall College. At a conference this week with nonlegal academic
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Americanos at that—taking over planes and demanding to be flown to his country. This wave of fly-me-to-Cuba air hijackings was at its most intense in the years 1968–1973, writes historian Teishan A. Latner. Worldwide, hijackings in these years were largely committed by Americans trying to get to Cuba, with over ninety attempts. Mirroring US immigration policy regarding Cuban refugees, Cuba offered them asylum. But the country’s leaders grew uneasy with the hijackers, who seemed like CIA, violent fugitives, or people with mental illnesses. The phenomenon in the late 1960s and early ’70...