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  • Were Americans Illiterate Before the Arrival of Public Schools?

    Were Americans Illiterate Before the Arrival of Public Schools?1

    • September 6, 2016

    Were most Americans illiterate before the creation of our public education system in the 1830s? That seems to be a popular assumption, but is it true? If you’re looking for statistics, they’re notoriously hard to get when it comes to literacy rates in past centuries. Most historians of early American history have gravitated toward signatures on

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  • Maybe America Was Never ‘Great’?

    Maybe America Was Never ‘Great’?0

    By now all of you have heard or seen Trump’s slogan of “Make America Great Again.” The slogan is a timely attempt to rally the still-patriotic contingent of U.S. citizens who hold to some level of American exceptionalism. But since first hearing the slogan I’ve had a nagging thought lingering in my head: Maybe America

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  • Should We Stop Calling Liberals ‘Liberal’?

    Should We Stop Calling Liberals ‘Liberal’?0

    When Americans use the term “liberal” today, they are usually describing a person or group that holds political or moral views associated with the Democratic Party or the “Left.” But it was not always so. In fact, this contemporary usage is the result of an etymological evolution—or devolution, depending on whom you ask. As a

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  • Texas Students Strap on Dildos to Protest Guns

    Texas Students Strap on Dildos to Protest Guns0

    On Wednesday afternoon at the University of Texas at Austin, several students engaged in an act of protest. They strapped on dildos. The phallus-inspired action was in reaction to Texas’ new campus-carry law, which allows people with licenses to carry concealed handguns on all of state’s public university campuses. At the same time, as the

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