Instead of using the secret routes along the Underground Railroad to find freedom in the North, thousands of enslaved Black people fled to free Black communities in Southern slaveholding states.
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The ongoing debate over transgender rights in rural America frames transness as a nascent movement, ignoring a long undercurrent of transgender history that is all but forgotten.
Not all victories in the 2018 midterms were electoral.
A demagogue playing the media to legitimise extreme movements and radical right-wing causes? The US has been here before.
Memorials to confederate generals are lightning rods today for the same racist views they fought for 150 years ago.
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