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“The ultimate logic of racism is genocide,”
Taylor Branch • At Canaan's Edge: America in the King Years, 1965-68

There’s a historical event that haunts and shames the region. And shows the machine of power. The story is about a boy named George. George was owned by Lilburn Lewis, the nephew of Thomas Jefferson, in the Kentucky mountains. In 1812, a cherished water pitcher slipped from the fifteen-year-old George’s hands, and it shattered. In a drunken rage, L
... See moreImani Perry • South to America: A Journey Below the Mason-Dixon to Understand the Soul of a Nation
As Stanton came to know and understand Lincoln, his initial disdain turned to admiration. When George Harding, his old partner in the Reaper trial, assumed that Stanton was the author of the “remarkable passages” in one of Lincoln’s messages, Stanton set him straight. “Lincoln wrote it—every word of it; and he is capable of more than that, Harding,
... See moreDoris Kearns Goodwin • Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln
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