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Why Schools Fail To Teach Slavery's 'Hard History' By: Cory Turner Source: https://www.npr.org/sections/ed/2018/02/04/582468315/why-schools-fail-to-teach-slaverys-hard-history?utm_campaign=storyshare "In the ways that we teach and learn about the history of American slavery," write the authors of a new report from the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC), "the nation needs an intervention."

78 Years Ago Today Churchill Incinerated 100,000 Defenseless Civilians in Dresden By: Michael Hoffman Source: https://russia-insider.com/en/78-years-ago-today-churchill-incinerated-100000-defenseless-civilians-dresden/ri22531 The original headline of this article was: 'The People Who Were Burned to Ashes on Ash Wednesday' "In the sky Allied fighter planes caught sight of the civilian

Source: https://martyncrucefix.com/2017/07/04/the-meaning-of-robert-frosts-the-figure-a-poem-makes/ Written in 1939, Robert Frost’s essay is combative, ironic, cryptic, delightful, damning of scholars and, for aspiring poets, encouraging of both a formal awareness and a cavalier attitude. The Figure a Poem Makes talks of the experience of writing rather than reading and the resulting poem is

Thousands of Women Used and Discarded by Mao Translated from Kanzhongguo (10/11/2009) Mao Zhedong’s licentious life may be well known by many people, especially overseas Chinese who are able to talk freely among their acquaintances. Recently, as there are many people talking on the web about the adultery of Mao and his daughter in law, I recalled what I had known about Mao, and hope it may