Housekeeping notes
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Tim Truxell
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Women’s contributions and men’s racism erased from history of national monument
An initiative to fill in historical gaps from the Muir Woods National Monument disappeared under pressure from the Trump administration.
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Learning to love the hard truths
What happens when we sanitize our most difficult histories? A powerful essay about Oklahoma offers lessons for struggling with painful pasts.
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A theocratic movement takes root in D.C.
Idaho again, this time with Christian theocratic nationalism.
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W&L and endowment taxes
Good news about how the effort to tax university endowments for W&L.
Idaho bans "Everyone is Welcome Here" in school
Idaho is trying to quash anything remotely related to past protests or DEI.
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Returning to our past instead
An article pointing out that America has lost it's moral compass.
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Southern place names and glorification of the racist past
A recent piece in the Tennessean brought to my attention by a fellow alumni nails it.
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JD Vance's dangerous vision of American citizenship
JD Vance recently delivered a speech at the Claremont Institute that should alarm anyone who believes in the foundational promise of American democracy.
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