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Today the immorality of chattel slavery is painfully obvious, but that has not always been the case. In 1857, the U.S. Supreme Court held that a black man like Dred Scott was "reduced to slavery ...

Despite the cautious attitude of the Western democracies regarding involvement in the volatile situation in Spain in 1936, more than 35,000 volunteers from 52 countries flocked to Spain to fight in a ...

Standing on Burial Hill overlooking Plymouth Harbor, a marble obelisk marks the grave of Governor William Bradford (1590-1657), the longtime leader of Plymouth Colony. Etched on the stone are three He ...

I first picked up Aldo Leopold's A Sand County Almanac nearly twenty five years ago during my two year wandering interlude between graduate school and the beginning of my career as a high school ...