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The academic’s page-turning volume of essays – a study of intellectuals who sought to improve the politics and societies of their day – makes you feel a little more learned than you did before

A collection of links to some of my previous writings on these topics, which remain relevant today.

A year-long celebration aims to start a new chapter for Belfast, forging better connections and conversations within communities through creativity and culture

In Manhunt episode 3, Stanton and Booth are heading in opposite directions as the aftermath of Lincoln's death emboldens former Confederates.

The award-winning British photographer has spent nearly two decades tracking down descendants of notable people and asking them to pose for recreated portraits of their famous ancestors. The post 6 Side-By-Side Portraits Of Black Civil War Heroes And Their Direct Descendants first appeared on Bored Panda.

Descendants of several civil rights leaders and abolitionists came together Tuesday at a Black History Month event hosted by the White House.

The latest institution to confront its colonial past, the RA does so to enthralling effect, using the art and its subjects – spanning 250 years, from Turner to Lubaina Himid – rather than the wall texts to shock and enlighten

This complex, nuanced show reckons with the past of the Royal Academy itself

Working-class white former Confederates joined Black families to save free public schools that oligarchs were trying to eliminate. If they could come together then, what’s stopping Americans from uniting now?