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“There’s a chance that the reparations movement will do more harm than good, because the central change is educating the public about the here-and-now effects of slavery and Jim Crow,” said Edley, who advised former President Bill Clinton on...
But the bulk of the rebel force?and its savagery?was saved for the army barracks. After setting fire to several buildings in town and waiting until half the garrison mobilized to douse the flames, more than 1,000 rebels attacked the depleted post. Reinforcements arriving the next day found...
Until a year ago, the outgunned-and-outnumbered ragtag idealists armed with sticks, stones and World War I-era .303-cal. rifles seemed to employ a strategy of dying for their cause of ending monarchy, caste and feudalism: nearly 2,000 had perished while gaining little ground. But since Nov...
Ford’s characters are aimed at a certain caste of modern readers. Lawyers, psychologists and professors populate these stories. In portraying their lives, Ford writes about what he calls “conflicted gossip about people doing what you yourself would like to be doing.?...
Dray, who has taught at the New School in New York City, provides what is essentially a history of racism in the 100 years after the Civil War, when blacks were set free into a society that instantly contrived new ways to confine, exploit and humiliate them. Lynching became the...