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Briefly Noted Book Reviews

This devastating début novel takes the form of an oral history about a tragedy that shatters a family. At its heart is a couple who arrived in the U.S. in the late nineteen-nineties as refugees from Afghanistan. They prospered, and brought up four children in an affluent suburb in Virginia. Rotating testimonies from people they know-family friends, a cousin, lawyers-offer theories about what led to the novel's central catastrophe.

Books

US politics

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Black Men Endured Sexual Exploitation Under Slavery. Their Story Is Rarely Told.

Systematic efforts to erase Black history and undermine Black representation threaten Black dignity, agency, and collective meaning-making.

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The New Natchez Documentary Gives a Strange Glimpse of Mississippi Antebellum Tourism

Natchez's antebellum tourism venerates plantation-era aesthetics while often omitting slavery, prompting contested reckonings led by local Black guides and younger visitors.

History

Who was Jefferson Davis, President of the Confederate States?

Jefferson Davis led the Confederate States as its only president, a former soldier and politician blamed for Confederate defeat and imprisoned after the Civil War.

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History

How White Southerners Distorted the History of Ancient Egypt to Justify Slavery in the U.S.

History

How White Southerners Distorted the History of Ancient Egypt to Justify Slavery in the U.S.

History

How White Southerners Distorted the History of Ancient Egypt to Justify Slavery in the U.S.

fromWorld History Encyclopedia

History

How White Southerners Distorted the History of Ancient Egypt to Justify Slavery in the U.S.

How Trump erased the story of George Washington's slave, Ona Judge, who fled from Philadelphia to freedom | Fortune

Ona Judge escaped slavery from the Washingtons on May 21, 1796, slipping out of the President's House in Philadelphia to live freely in New Hampshire.

History

Was Slavery the Sole Cause of the Civil War?

Slavery was the sole cause of the American Civil War, driving secession and deepening sectional division between North and South.

History