The semiquincentennial comes as President Trump, the scholarly community and others mark a national divide over whether to ...

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The Declaration notes that it is the right of the people to abolish the government and create a new one. But to Trump’s avid ...

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Part of the restored text describes the 18th- and 19th-century Underground Railroad as “efforts of enslaved African Americans to gain their freedom by escaping bondage.” Tubman was one of the system’s ...