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Editorial: Texas GOP platform betrays historical Texan and Republican values

Texas is a fine state populated with many great people who do interesting and important things, most visibly in science, technology, energy and agriculture. Texans traditionally place a high value on individual autonomy and liberty.

Los Angeles Times

Four enduring myths about Juneteenth are not based on facts

As the U.S. celebrates the second federal holiday honoring Juneteenth, several myths persist about the origins and history about what happened when enslaved people were emancipated in Texas.

WEKU

The Meaning of Juneteenth

Far from being somehow at odds with July 4 and the Declaration of Independence, Juneteenth celebrates the greatest achievement of the principles of the Revolution.

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Juneteenth Is not a legal holiday in most states

A year after Juneteenth became a federal holiday commemorating the end of slavery in the United States, most states have yet to enact Juneteenth legal holidays.

Tribune News Service

10 years ago, the weirdest vampire movie ever defied expectations

Far better than it has any right to be, this relic of 2012 is worth revisiting today.

Inverse

Juneteenth and other emancipation days didn’t bring full freedom to the enslaved

Juneteenth, now a federal holiday, is just one of 20 emancipation days that took place in the U.S. Those emancipations didn’t accomplish what we think they did.

Chicago Sun-Times

Companies are selling Juneteenth branded products. Here's why that's a big problem

Brands and companies are working to remove their Juneteenth items from shelves, as experts say those who are selling Juneteenth-branded products are "tone-deaf."

WEKU

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Juneteenth celebrates just one of the United States’ 20 emancipation days – and the history of how emancipated people were kept unfree needs to be remembered, too

The actual day was June 19, 1865, and it was the Black dockworkers in Galveston, Texas, who first heard the word that freedom for the enslaved had come. There were speeches, sermons and shared meals, mostly held at Black churches, the safest places to have such celebrations.

The Conversation

Believing the Big Lie won’t make it true

Some beliefs are not based on facts, and some people hold beliefs in spite of the facts.

Chicago Sun-Times

Is Twitter-Famous Princeton Historian Kevin Kruse a Plagiarist?

His 2000 thesis on civil-rights-era Atlanta lifts passages from other people's work.

Reason

If America fails to punish its insurrectionists, it could see a wave of domestic terror

We must not repeat the mistakes of the years after the 1860s war for white supremacy that we call the civil war

The Guardian - US

Editorial: National suicide plays out one murderous mass shooting at a time

Perhaps this is how it all ends — self-government, self-defense, self-control, liberty, unity, family. Perhaps the fate of the nation is to watch its soul die along with the at least 19 students and two adults shot to death Tuesday at an elementary school in Uvalde, Texas. This is us,…

Los Angeles Times

Linda Greenhouse Lives in a Bizarro World on Dobbs

To Greenhouse, overruling Roe is an act of "judicial activism" and "raw power."

Reason

Who Are The 9 Poorest Presidents Of All Time?

While the great majority of U.S presidents have been wealthy, the coveted role in the Oval Office doesn’t necessarily translate to big dollars. Some of the presidents with the lowest net worth came from humble beginnings: Abraham Lincoln, Andrew Johnson and James Garfield were born in wood cabins.

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Tribune News Service

Commentary: We’ve expanded the Supreme Court before. It’s time to do so again

With the leak of Justice Samuel Alito’s draft opinion overturning Roe v. Wade generating shockwaves across the country, Supreme Court expansion is once again emerging as a serious proposal in response to the extreme partisanship overtaking our nation’s highest court. Throughout our nation’s history, federal lawmakers have expanded and reduced…

The Conversation

The US Civil War drastically reshaped how Americans deal with death – will the pandemic?

More than 1 million people living in the United States have died of COVID-19 during the past two years.

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

Lynn Schmidt: True leaders practice the art of persuasion. Others tweet out trash talk

There is something that has been sorely missing in the United States in the last decade — soaring rhetoric. We are lacking leaders who, like Abraham Lincoln, appeal to our better angels through their ability to craft rhetoric that resonates in people’s hearts and minds.

Los Angeles Times

Bob Odenkirk winds down his journey as Jimmy McGill, uh, Saul Goodman, no, Gene Takavic

Bob Odenkirk doesn't remember anything about his heart attack last summer — not the CPR, not the three defibrillator zaps that brought him back to life and nothing from the eight days he spent recuperating at Albuquerque Presbyterian Hospital. Even the week after he went home is sketchy. He vaguely…

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Salon

7 misconceptions about the Civil War

No. 4. All amputations were done without anesthesia.

WEKU

Lincoln College closes after 157 years, blaming COVID-19 and cyberattack disruptions

It's a shocking turnaround for a small Illinois college that welcomes first-generation students and qualifies as a predominantly Black institution.

The Independent UK

Illinois historically Black college to close after 157 years

A historically Black college in central Illinois that saw its enrollment plummet during the COVID-19 pandemic says it has been unable to recover and must close its doors after 157 years

Benzinga

10 Weirdest Conspiracy Theories: Jesus In Japan, Catherine The Great's Horse, And Who Really Killed JFK?

In the classic Western "The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance," there is a famous line that says "When the legend becomes fact, print the legend." However, printing a legend doesn't turn it into a fact - a situation that has been affirmed over the centuries as bizarre rumors, urban legends…

Salon

25 unknown facts about Thomas Jefferson

Apparently the third president harvested opium and had a pet mockingbird named Dick

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

Lynn Schmidt: Remembering the struggles of Ulysses Grant

On this anniversary of the birth of Hiram Ulysses Grant, 200 years ago Wednesday, he is remembered as the 18th president of the United States, commander of the U.S. Army during the Civil War and national hero. He can also be thought of as an ordinary human being who struggled…

The Independent UK

Legacy of Ulysses S. Grant complicated 200 years after birth

This month marks the 200th anniversary of the birth of Civil War general and two-term president Ulysses S

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