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John Celock

WATCH: Birther Lawmaker Makes Truly Bizarre Claim

HuffingtonPost.com | John Celock | Posted 03.01.2013 | Politics
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A Republican state lawmaker in New Hampshire who has ties to the birther movement drew a bizarre connection between President Woodrow Wilson and Adolf...

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Racism Is Over! No More Racism! No More... Oh, Wait.

Posted 02.22.2013 | Comedy
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Mississippi finally ratified the 13th amendment (that's the one that bans slavery) recently. Yes, that's correct -- 147 years after it was adopted as ...

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Lincoln Movie Underplays James Ashley's Role

Steven Rosen | Posted 04.23.2013 | Fifty
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Steven Rosen

Lincoln, Steven Spielberg's Oscar-nominated movie about the great president's struggle to get Congressional approval for the 13th Amendment outlawing slavery, gets 53-year-old Ohio History teacher Paul LaRue's approval for bringing American history alive.

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Mississippi Finally Ratifies Amendment Banning Slavery

Posted 02.20.2013 | Politics
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Mississippi lawmakers have officially ratified the 13th Amendment to the Constitution, which banned slavery in 1865. One hundred forty-eight years...

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Jason Linkins

Congressman Pans 'Lincoln' For Historical Inaccuracies

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 02.06.2013 | Politics
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It's not unusual, during the run-up to the Academy Awards, for the films up for the top honors to come under fire for all sorts of reasons. In 2009, f...

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Emancipation Proclamation Provided a Seminal Moment in the Nation's History

Byron Williams | Posted 03.02.2013 | Black Voices
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Byron Williams

The proclamation did more than make slavery illegal in the rebellion states; it changed the course of the war and forever transformed the nation. For the first time, it made ubiquitous the Jeffersonian notion of all being created equal.

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Rethinkin' Lincoln on the 150th Birthday of the Emancipation Proclamation

Bill Bigelow | Posted 02.12.2013 | Home
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Bill Bigelow

In coming months and years, teachers' jobs will be made harder by Steven Spielberg's film Lincoln, in which Daniel Day-Lewis gives a brilliant performance as, well, Lincoln-the-abolitionist. The only problem is that Lincoln was not an abolitionist.

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Lincoln Film Forgets D.C.'s Frederick Douglass -- And African American Leadership

Michael Shank | Posted 01.28.2013 | Entertainment
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Michael Shank

Unlike Lincoln, we cannot ignore Frederick Douglass' critique in the current conversation over equality, or lack thereof, of opportunity, access and mobility in this country.

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Popcorn Preview: Lincoln

Leslie Sisman | Posted 01.16.2013 | Entertainment
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Leslie Sisman

Based on a portion of Team of Rivals, by presidential historian Doris Kerns Goodwin, the movie is a well-documented telling of the passage of the 13th Amendment. It wasn't pretty!

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Lincoln and Obama: 'Clothed in Immense Power'

Marshall Fine | Posted 01.16.2013 | Entertainment
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Marshall Fine

Steven Spielberg's Lincoln opens in wide release today, after a limited release last Friday -- and with luck, Barack Obama will not only see it but take it as a template for the current lame-duck session of Congress and for his impending second term.

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Movie Review: Lincoln

Marshall Fine | Posted 01.07.2013 | Entertainment
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Marshall Fine

Don't know much about history -- but you don't have to in order to be captivated by Steven Spielberg's Lincoln.

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Plaintiff Trees

Edward Flattau | Posted 05.26.2012 | Green
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Edward Flattau

Think treating trees as entities with rights is farfetched? Is it more of a stretch than designating corporations and ships as persons for legal purposes? Scientific evidence indicates that trees can communicate with each other. No, they cannot argue about politics.

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Keepers of the Faith: Why the Constitution Should Not Be Treated as a Sacred Text

Grant Calder | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics
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Grant Calder

The 112th Congress opened a few weeks ago with a reading of the Constitution. Hard to argue about that? Guess again.

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What Is a Democracy?

Van Gosse | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics
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Van Gosse

Our democratic system is still hobbled by the deliberately unrepresentative structures bequeathed to us by federalism. So if you care about democracy, we have our work cut out for us.

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Obama 2012

Daniel Bruno Sanz | Posted 05.25.2011 | Home
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Daniel Bruno Sanz

I went to New York to meet Obama the candidate, and in a Soho apartment he told a small group of us that his middle name was Hussein. I thought he was telling a joke.

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