#Blackface #AmericanHistory #CulturalCritique
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Blackface isn't dead. It isn't even past. - The Boston Globe
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"Darkology" is, in part, about the print culture and paper materials -- nearly ten thousand published minstrel plays, songbooks, step-by-step performance guides, joke books, and the institutional records of the fraternal orders, PTAs, churches, military bases, and universities that staged blackface productions -- making up the history of amateur minstrelsy.
#BenjaminFranklin #ScienceAndPolitics #AmericanHistory
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How Ben Franklin put a charge into American independence -- Harvard Gazette
Reputation in science was key to his political power, historian says. On the other hand, 'Frankenstein. '
Benjamin Franklin is known as a leading figure in the American Revolution, a diplomat, a printer and publisher, and an inventor.
#AmericanHistory #ArtAndSocialJustice #BlackVoices
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250 Years Of American History Embodied In Artist Leo Twiggs And Charleston
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"The stony road we trod. "
The line from James Weldon Johnson's "Lift Every Voice and Sing"-the Black National Anthem-well encapsulates American history.
#FreedomTour #AmericanHistory #NationalArchives
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America's founding documents fly out of nation's capital for first time on the freedom plane
For the first time in United States history, several of the country's founding documents will travel the skies to visit multiple cities on their own jet in honor of the nation's founding.
#AmericanHistory #250thAnniversary #NationalArchives
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Major historical documents start journey across U.S. as part of nation's 250th anniversary celebration
Some of the United States' most important historical documents are beginning a first-of-its kind journey Monday as part of the country's 250th anniversary commemoration.
#AmericanHistory #250thAnniversary #Preservation
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Major historical documents start journey across US as part of nation's 250th anniversary celebration
Some of the United States' most important historical documents are beginning a first-of-its kind journey Monday as part of the country's 250th anniversary commemoration.
#AmericanHistory #HistoricalNarrative #PresidentsDay
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Uncommon Knowledge: Americans don't want a war on history
On Presidents Day, a federal judge ordered the Trump administration to put back what it had removed in Philadelphia: 34 panels and videos explaining that America's first president lived there with nine enslaved people, and that at least two of them, including Oney Judge, escaped.
#Delmonicos #FineDining #AmericanHistory
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This Upscale Restaurant Abraham Lincoln Loved To Dine At Is Still Open Today
Delmonico's revolutionized dining in America by introducing sit-down lunches, hosting parties and balls, and allowing women to dine without male companionship starting in 1868.
#OnaJudge #AmericanHistory #CivilRights
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Martha Washington's enslaved maid Ona Judge made a daring escape to freedom - but the National Park Service has erased her story from Philadelphia exhibit
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On the evening of May 21, 1796, Ona Judge made the daring decision to free herself.
#Slavery #AmericanHistory #Philadelphia
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As a fight over the legacy of slavery brews in Pa., a historian tells how it shaped the commonwealth
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Exhibits discussing slavery and the Founding Fathers' owning slaves are seen at the President's House on August 9, 2025 in Philadelphia.
