By refusing to concede, Trump betrays Lincoln and the Republican Party’s roots

• in The Washington Post
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“Lighting Up the Path of Liberty and Justice”: Black Abolitionist Fourth of July Celebrations and the Promise of America from the Fugitive Slave Act to the Civil War”

• in Journal of African American History
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The Fourth of July is a Black American Holiday

• in The Washington Post
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• reprinted in The Milwaukee Times
• cited by NPR, PBS, and The Daily Kos

Trials of Freedom: African American Deserters during the U.S. Civil War

• in Journal of Social History
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Mutiny in the Civil War

• in Civil War Monitor
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