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Original Sins: The (Mis)education of Black and Native Children and the Construction of American Racism
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Princeton University’s first graduate student, future president James Madison, brought one slave with him to campus and another to the Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia. The latter he had to free: all that talk of liberty had ruined him, a poison to the rest of the plantation. He took the former home with him.
Imani Perry • South to America: A Journey Below the Mason-Dixon to Understand the Soul of a Nation
Black history should be taught at the heart of American history.
George Packer • Last Best Hope: America in Crisis and Renewal
Few people know very much about why schools exist as they do today; the intellectual traditions that have shaped education seem to be invisible to most observers. This is a strange gap in the knowledge of the public. With physics, most informed laypeople could write a coherent sentence or two about Einstein and Newton. For biology, a page might be
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