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By Julia Johnson | July 6, 2021 | 4:15pm EDT
Nikole Hannah-Jones, inaugural Knight Chair in Race and Journalism at the Howard University School of Communications. (Getty Images)
On Tuesday, July 6, the architect of the infamous 1619 Project, Nikole Hannah-Jones, announced to
CBS This Morning her decision to decline the University of North Carolina’s offer for tenure, after initially being denied it, and accept a position at Howard University as a chaired professor.
“I’ve decided to decline the offer of tenure. I will not be teaching on the faculty of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill,” Hannah-Jones told CBS’s Gayle King.
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by Earl J. Hess Baton Rouge: LSU Press, 2020. Pp. xvi, 432. Illus., maps, tables, notes, biblio., index. $50.00. ISBN: 0807173320
Keeping the Armies in the Field
Prof. Hess (Lincoln Memorial University) is the author of
Eugene Feit Award for Excellence in Civil War Studies for 2017. In this new, very impressively researched work, he expands upon his earlier work to explore the evolution of the Union’s abilities to use the available means of transportation – rail, river, maritime, animal, foot – to move men and matériel within the quite varied geographic environments encountered during the war, and how this influenced the development of a war winning strategy.
In 2021 Americans face a common enemy in the coronavirus pandemic. But instead of rallying together to defeat the pathogen’s spread, Americans have turned on each other in a climate of extreme political polarization and alternate online realities.
Welcome to Episode 1 of History As It Happens, a new podcast from the Washington Times. There are many important parallels between these dark chapters in American history, even if the sets of circumstances are dramatically different.
Mr. Biden, who has often invoked his bipartisan work in the Senate he left 12 years ago, will call for unity in his inaugural address, as Lincoln did. He has remained quiet about whether the Senate should convict Donald Trump during his upcoming impeachment trial.