Slavery (historical) articles
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A historic revolt, a forgotten hero, an empty plinth: is there a right way to remember slavery? – podcast
As the author of a book about a pivotal uprising in 18th-century Jamaica, Vincent Brown was enlisted in a campaign to make its leader a national hero. But when he arrived in Jamaica, he started to wonder what he had got himself into Continue reading
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What to expect for historic Summer of Cicadas
MACON, Georgia (41NBC/WMGT) – Cicada season has officially begun in Middle Georgia, but this year will be different. Dr. Bruce Snyder, Associate Professor and Coordinator at Georgia College & State University, says this year we will see the emergence of the Southern Brood. The Great Southern Brood emerges every 13 years. “For the first time since Thomas Jefferson was the
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Debating the Slaughter: a Historical Retrofitting
In the summer and into the fall of 1942, the Germans deported over a quarter of a million Jews from the Warsaw Ghetto to be exterminated at the Treblinka death camp. In the ensuing uprising in the spring of 1943, about 14 thousand Jews were killed or captured and then killed. By the end of More