Beatrix Potter’s silence concerning her sources means the Brer Rabbit folktales that helped create her stories are passed over without acknowledgement or celebration.
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Two food scientists, an entomologist, an anthropologist, a veterinarian and a historian walk into a bar (of chocolate) and tell bitter and sweet stories of this favorite treat.
By raising the Mauritian flag on the Chagos Islands, the east African nation has reasserted – if only symbolically – its claim to sovereignty.
By the time slavery ended, over 1 million enslaved people had been forcibly moved in the domestic slave trade across state lines. Hundreds of thousands more were bought and sold within states.
A scholar of race and racism explains what critical race theory is – and how many people get it wrong.
Many Americans first heard of Elizabeth City, North Carolina, when protests began after Andrew Brown Jr. was killed by sheriff’s deputies. But the city has a long history of fighting racial injustice.
When the Cherokee Supreme Court ruled that tribal elected officials no longer had to be Cherokee “by blood,” it was the latest chapter in a long-running fight over who controls tribal citizenship.
Proposed legislation would identify and protect African American cemeteries. But it wouldn’t cover the remains of thousands of Black people in museum collections.
There’s a bittersweet history to chocolate in America. At one plantation museum in Virginia, the story of enslaved chocolatier Caesar shows the oppression that lay behind the elite’s culinary treat.
For his first presidential Thanksgiving, George Washington aimed to pull his country together in the face of the many internal divisions that could yank it apart.
With a Supreme Court ruling rejecting one of the founders’ two reasons for creating the Electoral College, only one reason remains: racism.
The racist legacy of the American death penalty.
A growing chorus of people say the US has never been so politically divided. A Civil War historian reminds readers that there was once a far more divided time.
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Visiting Scholar, University of California, Berkeley
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Senior Lecturer, School of Law and Politics, Cardiff University
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Professor of History, University of Alabama
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Associate Research Professor of Anthropology, University of Colorado Denver
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Assistant Professor of History, Elizabeth City State University
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Assistant Professor of Political Science, University of Maryland, Baltimore County
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Reader of Law, Newcastle University
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Reader in Postcolonial Literature, Leeds Beckett University
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John L. Nau III Professor in the History of the American Civil War, Emeritus, University of Virginia
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Professor of American History, Università di Torino
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Professor and Department Head, Entomology and Plant Pathology, University of Tennessee
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Ph.D. Candidate in Food Science, Colorado State University
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Postdoctoral Scholar, School of Civic and Economic Thought and Leadership, Arizona State University
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Doctoral Student in Anthropology, American University
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Assistant Professor of Philosophy, Affiliate, Institute for Intelligent Systems, University of Memphis
