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Jan 24, 2021 · Bruce Kuklick, a professor of American history emeritus at the University of Pennsylvania, says the framers of the Constitution had a very different idea of democracy than Americans do today.
- Dora Mekouar
Jul 5, 2004 · Ray Suarez speaks with three historians, Richard Brookhiser, Ron Chernow and Jan Lewis, about what the founding fathers might have thought of America today.
- Four Myths About Slavery
- The Value of Slaves
- Slavery in Popular Culture
Myth One:The majority of African captives came to what became the United States. Truth: Only a little more than 300,000captives, or 4-6 percent, came to the United States. The majority of enslaved Africans went to Brazil, followed by the Caribbean. A significant number of enslaved Africans arrived in the American colonies by way of the Caribbean, w...
Economists and historians have examined detailed aspects of the enslaved experience for as long as slavery existed. My own workenters this conversation by looking at the value of individual slaves and the ways enslaved people responded to being treated as a commodity. They were bought and sold just like we sell cars and cattle today. They were gift...
Slavery is part and parcel of American popular culture, but for 40 years the television miniseries Roots was the primary visual representation of the institution, except for a handful of independent (and not widely known) films such as Haile Gerima’s “Sankofa” or the Brazilian “Quilombo.” Today, from grassroots initiatives such as the interactive S...
- Daina Ramey Berry
Aug 14, 2019 · In every war this nation has waged since that first one, black Americans have fought — today we are the most likely of all racial groups to serve in the United States military.
Feb 10, 2021 · It took a handful of factors — political assassinations, Vietnam, the oil crisis, and the sexual revolution — to start moving post-’60s America back to an “I” culture. Capehart wondered, however, whether this American ‘we” culture was necessarily open to Black Americans.
Oct 15, 1992 · Placing the American family in its historical, cultural, economic, and philosophic context, Coontz (co-ed., Women's Work, Men's Property, 1986) identifies the myths—and their sources, functions, and fallacies—that Americans generate around family life, as well as the terrible burden these illusions create.
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This paper explores this "national disgrace" in twentieth century America, including: 1) the evolu- tion of the American Communist Party (CPUSA) - its appeal, its followers, and its ultimate demise; 2) the rise of anti-Communism fears; 3) the establish- ment of HUAC and its infamous hearings; and 4) the repercussions of Holly- wood blacklisting,...
