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Point Comfort op-ed
Restore Fort Monroe’s 1619 name: Point Comfort
May 1
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Steven T. Corneliussen
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April 2024
Profiling the 1619 place
Point Comfort and Emancipation’s long arc
Apr 23
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Steven T. Corneliussen
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March 2024
History class doesn't indoctrinate
But it likely omits emancipation's full story
Mar 21
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Steven T. Corneliussen
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February 2024
Lincoln emancipation absolutism
Addendum to "A story needing telling"
Feb 15
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Steven T. Corneliussen
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January 2024
A story needing telling
Ken Burns, please call your office
Jan 31
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Steven T. Corneliussen
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When worthy history is unseen
It's not just those Civil War freedom strivers
Jan 1
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Steven T. Corneliussen
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November 2023
Jamelle Bouie gets it
National Review critic doesn't
Nov 26, 2023
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Steven T. Corneliussen
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October 2023
Question for Ibram X. Kendi & Keisha N. Blain
What about Black centrality in forcing emancipation?
Oct 18, 2023
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Steven T. Corneliussen
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September 2023
Scanting Civil War Black self-agency
Arlington's Confederate Memorial. History wars. Wall Street Journal.
Sep 18, 2023
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Steven T. Corneliussen
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August 2023
All sides in the history wars
The Washington Post unintentionally highlighted the need to remember Civil War slavery escapees forcing freedom—then printed a letter
Aug 9, 2023
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Steven T. Corneliussen
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July 2023
Historians on the term 'self-emancipation'
Blight: Not wrong; "too operatic." Guelzo: "Marxist conceit." Williams: Slavery escapees made the Civil War a "freedom war."
Jul 25, 2023
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Steven T. Corneliussen
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June 2023
Rereading 'How Slavery Really Ended in America'
Was it only powerful white guys? Besides Union soldiers—180,000 of them Black—was it only politicians deigning to end what should be recalled as crimes…
Jun 30, 2023
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Steven T. Corneliussen
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