Historian Michael Todd Landis has a proposal at the Historical News Network advocating that we should change the names we use to refer to American Civil War related events and institutions. The old labels and terms handed down to us from the conservative scholars of the early to mid-twentieth century no longer reflect the best … Continue reading Time to change how we refer to American Civil War events and institutions?
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12 Years a Slave
This week, I saw the movie 12 Years a Slave. Most of the reviewers have stated that the move is a hard one to watch, but that they were glad they did. That pretty much sums up my reaction to it. The violence in the movie is limited, but what is shown is brutal and … Continue reading 12 Years a Slave
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