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by Jay L. Zagorsky, Boston University
The holiday shopping season is now here, and Americans are ready to splurge. The average...
A statue of Jefferson Davis, second from left, is on display in Statuary Hall on Capitol Hill in Washington. A slaveholder, Davis represented Mississippi...
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by John Lynch, University of Colorado Boulder and Jean-Pierre Dubé, University of Chicago
Orion Brown started Black Travel...
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by Christopher Decker, University of Nebraska Omaha
What a difference a job report makes. Earlier in the summer, people were...
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by Vitaliy Skorodziyevskiy, University of Louisville; Chelsea Sherlock; Clay Dibrell; Emma Su, University of Dayton, and Jim...
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by Trevon Logan, The Ohio State University
As the United States...
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by Marcia Zug, University of South Carolina
“First comes love, then comes marriage” – so goes the classic children’s rhyme....
