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Andrew Delbanco will be presenting three lectures on the theme “What Do Our Colleges and Universities Owe to Black Americans? at the 5th Annual Malcolm Lester Phi Beta Kappa Lectures on Liberal Arts and Public Life at Mercer University from March 24th to 25th.

Andrew Delbanco will be presenting three lectures on the theme “What Do Our Colleges and Universities Owe to Black Americans?” at the 5th Annual Malcolm Lester Phi Beta Kappa Lectures on Liberal Arts and Public Life at Mercer University from March 24th to 25th.

Mae Ngai was one of the 140+ artists and scholars who has called for New York City to reverse their decision to relocate the Roosevelt Statue, formerly located at the American Museum of Natural History, to North Dakota. Mae Ngai will also be teaching “American History: Immigration and Life” as part of Gilder Lehrman Institute’s Inaugural Teacher Symposium at Gettysburg College in Summer 2022.

Mae Ngai was one of the 140+ artists and scholars who has called for New York City to reverse their decision to relocate the Roosevelt Statue, formerly located at the American Museum of Natural History, to North Dakota. Ngai will also be teaching “American History: Immigration and Life” as part of Gilder Lehrman Institute’s Inaugural Teacher Symposium at Gettysburg College in Summer 2022.

According to Columbia University history professor Eric Foner, the Reconstruction era began more than a year before the end of the Civil War, when Abraham Lincoln, the country’s first Republican president, “announced a plan to establish governments in the South loyal to the Union.” These governments backed legislation guaranteeing Black Americans’ rights and were vehemently opposed by the counter-revolutionary “Redemption” movement that swept the South.

Eric Foner is quoted in CNN Politics“America has a long history of resisting multiracial democracy.”

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