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In Praise of Moderation

…grassroots social movements, national politics, and public policy. In the popular public imagination, consistently stuck in a rather naïve frame of historical consciousness, events like these tend to be reduced…

It’s Not Even Past

…the Civil War center on “the first two official commemorations of the War, its semicentennial and its centennial,” as well as the ongoing sesquicentennial. “We use personal and collective memory…

A Deliberate Life

…with remorse after whipping an insolent ten-year-old named Daniel Potter. “Although at last he had indulged in a paradoxical bout of violence,” Sims writes, “Henry—always a master of rationalization—managed to…

The Last Great March

…was suffering from internal tumult after the fiery black nationalist Stokely Carmichael deposed John Lewis, an ally of King and an advocate of biracial activism. The mainstream NAACP and the…

In the Heat

February 6, 2014 Aram Goudsouzian’s previous two books consider the lives of actor/director Sidney Poitier and basketball legend Bill Russell, both major cultural icons–and civil-rights activists– during the 1960s. In…

The Particulars of Evil

…experiences social and political censure in Charleston, travels to Pennsylvania and New Jersey, embraces Quakerism, and meets prominent free-thinking leaders of the day, including women’s-rights pioneer Lucretia Mott; William Lloyd…

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