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Jan.01.2013
Montage of President Abraham Lincoln and African Americans during the Civil War.(Library of Congress Public Domain)
Welcome to the first of this special 3-part article series presented in honor of the 150th Anniversary of the Emancipation Proclamation:
The fact that an African American sits...
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Nov.28.2012
Congressional Republicans are taking in a movie. They are getting a lesson in art of compromise by watching Steven Spielberg’s Lincoln. In the latest epic motion picture, President Abraham Lincoln (played by Daniel Day Lewis) and Secretary of State William Seward (played by David Strathairn)...
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Nov.02.2010
I have withdrawn my novel MIXED ANIMAL from MacAdam/Cage& have ended my association with that publishing house.
The action speaks for itself, the decision was a long timein coming, I could not be more certain that it is the rightthing to do for my book, my writing, and my spirit,and I am at...
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Aug.26.2010
"I'm so over the revolution," said Meena an almost high school junior from Belmont Massachusetts. "How many times can you go to the Paul Revere house and look at his chamber pot?"
Meena prefers the revolution of 1800, when for the first time a government changed power without...
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