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30
May

Introducing Making Roots

By Matthew F. Delmont, author of The Nicest Kids in Town, Why Busing Failed, and Making Roots When Alex Haley’s book Roots was published by Doubleday in 1976 it became an immediate bestseller. …

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14
Apr

Taboos

By Virginia Scharff This guest post is published in advance of the Organization of American Historians conference in St. Louis. UC Press authors share their research and stories that reflect on this …

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06
Apr

Kevin Bales: We Can Free Every Slave

There are 27 million slaves in the world today, with Iceland and Greenland the only two countries with no known cases of slavery, says Kevin Bales in this inspiring TED Conference talk …

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