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Reconstruction Era
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The 15th Amendment: America’s Forgotten Voting Rights Revolution
What makes the 15th Amendment uniquely compelling is how it forces a reckoning with the contradictions of American progress. While it expanded suffrage to...
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The Broken Promise: What Really Happened to 40 Acres and a Mule
The order was supposed to be irreversible. In January 1865, as Union forces advanced through Georgia and South Carolina, General William T. Sherman issued...