Historical texts on black progress: Your weekly guide to the best in books
No one should fear a history that asks a country to live up to its highest ideals.
Georgians want the Confederate emblem back on their state flag, and are frustrated that a referendum this month won't give them that option. What they don't know is that if the emblem's creator were alive, he'd vote to bury it
In the immediate aftermath of the Civil War, he dreamed of a pluralist utopia.