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It doesn’t feel right to start any update without acknowledging the enormity of the situation facing our organizations. Without recognize…

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In the days when new state and local governments were still forming, politics and government were even more important to…

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Underground Railroad

More than three million African-Americans lived as slaves in the Southern United States in the mid-1800s. They had few human…

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“Between 1820 and 1840, the number of Hollanders coming to America had averaged fewer than one hundred a year. Between…

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