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BBC - h2g2 Newport and All That Jazz: How the Blues Came to the World

BBC - h2g2 Newport and All That Jazz: How the Blues Came to the World
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The lesser-known history of the Monroe doctrine

The lesser-known history of the Monroe doctrine
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Grateful Web Interview with Ian Brennan

Parchman Prison is in the Mississippi Delta and is notorious for brutal conditions and a very high black population. In 1996, the historian David Oshinsky said, "Throughout the American South, Parchman Farm is synonymous with punishment and brutality. It's the closest thing to slavery that survived the Civil War." Ta-Nehisi Coates quoted Oshinsky's writing in his 2014 Atlantic article, "The Case for Reparations." The prison was founded in 1901, on a former plantation site.

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Why We Must Teach the History of Mass Incarceration

Mass incarceration is the clearest afterlife of slavery. We must reckon with this history in order to repair it, writes Benjamin Weber.

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Jesmyn Ward revisits historical horrors with stunning lyricism

“Let Us Descend,” the title of Jesmyn Ward’s overwhelming new novel, alludes to Dante’s “Inferno,” but her story tells the tale of a real hell on Earth. In one sense, that’s long been Ward’s setting. .

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