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Layered Lives

Rhetoric and representation in the Southern Life History Project.
by Lauren Tilton, Taylor Arnold, Courtney Rivard via Stanford University Press on August 30, 2022
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A Legendary UNC Leader Displayed the Benefit of Academic Freedom — And the Limits

Academic freedom can help universities flourish, while political compromises can hold them back.
by William A. Link via Made By History on May 26, 2021

Without Profit From Stolen Indigenous Lands, UNC Would Have Gone Broke 100 Years Ago

Before universities profited from stolen Indigenous territory through "land-grants," schools like UNC sold Indigenous lands hundreds of miles away.
by Lucas P. Kelley, Garrett W. Wright via Scalawag on September 15, 2020

The University of North Carolina's Payout to the Confederate Lost Cause

The University of North Carolina agreed to pay the Sons of Confederate Veterans $2.5 million—a sum that rivals the endowment of its history department.
by David W. Blight, Kevin M. Levin, W. Fitzhugh Brundage via The Atlantic on December 9, 2019
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Why Conservatives Want to Cancel the 1619 Project

Objections to the appointment of Nikole Hannah-Jones to an academic chair are the latest instance of conservatives using the state to suppress "dangerous" ideas.
by Adam Serwer via The Atlantic on May 21, 2021
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What the 1619 Project Means

Nothing could be more toxic to our ongoing effort to build a multiracial democracy than to cast any race as a perennial hero or villain.
by Helen Andrews via First Things on January 23, 2022
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Which is Better: School Integration or Separate, Black-Controlled Schools?

Historical perspective on school integration.
by Zoë Burkholder via OUPblog on August 11, 2021
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The Irony of Complaints About Nikole Hannah-Jones’s Advocacy Journalism

The White press helped destroy democracy in the South. Black journalists developed an activist tradition because they had to.
by Sid Bedingfield via Made By History on June 24, 2021
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White Supremacy in the Academy: The 1913 Meeting of the American Historical Association

The historical interpretations crafted by the men of the Dunning School might now be largely discredited and discarded. But their legacies remain.
by Bradley D. Proctor via The Activist History Review on December 6, 2019

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