Word: abolitionism
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The content of curriculum and textbooks has been closely examined on both sides. Fundamentalists are often criticized for wanting to teach creationism or for incorporating Christian "propaganda" into history and literature classes. But they respond that the intrusions and distortions can cut both ways. One 1985 government-funded study of...
But since the abolition of slavery, true conservatism has faded, he said. "Genuine conservatism in the South has been at bay since 1865, Genovese said, adding, "The abolition of slavery opened the gates to liberalism."
And, fortunately, we've seldom had to go that long. Ten years after the Revolution, there was Shay's Rebellion, in which poor farmers challenged the new Republic's monied elite. In the 1820s and '30s, there was the Workingmen's Movement, pitted against the evils of "kingcraft, priestcraft and...
In the fall, the council elected as its chair Evan B. Rauch '91-'92, the former secretary who distinguished himself through his careful note-taking and dry sense of humor. Rauch was chosen over more ideological candidates such as Randal S. Jeffrey '91, a leading force on the council's...
A. Relations are worse in the South because the bottom-line historical experience was slavery. In the North it was abolition. A black person is not at the same place societally in the North and in the South for that very reason.