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Thaddeus Stevens

Why I'm Rooting for Tommy Lee Jones

The Zinn Education Project | Posted 04.24.2013 | Entertainment
Read More: Lincoln, Thaddeus Stevens, Tommy Lee Jones, Abraham Lincoln, Civil War, The Oscars, Entertainment News
The Zinn Education Project

In the 2012 movie Lincoln, Stevens is cast as the radical whom Lincoln must tame to ensure passage of the 13th Amendment. This is Hollywood drama. The ardent abolitionist was as cagey a politician as Lincoln, and needed no persuasion to support his life's goal.

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

Michael Shank | Posted 01.28.2013 | Entertainment
Read More: 13th Amendment, Black Soldiers, Civil War, Cedar Hill, Civil Rights, Lydia Hamilton Smith, Elizabeth Keckley, Abraham Lincoln, Thaddeus Stevens, Frederick Douglass, Lincoln Review, Lincoln Film, Entertainment News
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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Re-Birth of a Nation?

Robert S. McElvaine | Posted 04.25.2012 | Politics
Read More: The Artist, Dwight Eisenhower, Academy Awards, Texas Board of Education, Thaddeus Stevens, D.W. Griffith, The Birth of a Nation, Barack Obama, Politics News
Robert S. McElvaine

The Birth of a Nation provides the key to explaining both the rise of the Tea Party and the totally irrational hatred that a substantial fraction of Americans holds for President Obama.

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