Francis Henry Underwood

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What’s the Difference Between Great Britain and the United Kingdom?

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14 Buildings That Lay Bare Scotland’s Soul

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8 Influential Abolitionist Texts

Picking cotton on a Georgia plantation, 1858. Illustration published in Ballou's Pictorial, v. 14, 1858, p. 49. African Americans; Black Americans; cotton pickers; slavery; slaves; enslavement; Georgia

Pro and Con: Reparations for Slavery

Painting titled: "Washington as Statesman at the Constitutional Convention" oil on canvas by Junius Brutus Stearns, 1856; in the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts. (Note from museum) The painting represents George Washington's role as president of the 1787 Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia. The normally reserved Washington urges passage of a new federal constitution, a draft of which he holds in his hands.

How Many of the Signers of the U.S. Constitution Were Enslavers?

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Plato (left) and Aristotle, detail from School of Athens, fresco by Raphael, 1508-11; in the Stanza della Segnatura, the Vatican. Plato points to the heavens and the realm of Forms, Aristotle to the earth and the realm of things.

Plato and Aristotle: How Do They Differ?

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7 Winter Solstice Celebrations From Around the World

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Was Santa Claus a Real Person?

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Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519), Italian Renaissance painter from Florence. Engraving by Cosomo Colombini (d. 1812) after a Leonardo self portrait. Ca. 1500.

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Born	January 12, 1825 • Massachusetts
Died	August 7, 1894 (aged 69) • Edinburgh • Scotland
Founder	“The Atlantic”

Angelina Grimké

American abolitionist

Sarah Grimké

American abolitionist

Frederick Douglass

United States official and diplomat

Anna Murray Douglass

American abolitionist

William Lloyd Garrison

American editor, writer, and abolitionist

James Russell Lowell

American poet and critic

John Brown

American abolitionist

Horace Greeley

American journalist

Frances Wright

American social reformer

Harriet Tubman

American abolitionist

John Greenleaf Whittier

American author

Anna Louise Strong

American journalist and scholar

Charlotte Forten Grimké

American abolitionist and educator

John Cheever

American author

Lucretia Mott

American social reformer

Bret Harte

American writer

Robert Gould Shaw

Union army officer

Frances E.W. Harper

American author and social reformer

William Dean Howells

American author and critic

Abigail Hopper Gibbons

American social reformer

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