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Evelyn  Theresa Harris Clark's avatar

This is Awesome! Thank You Professor Glaude!! Always Appreciate You Truth and Wisdom! May God Bless You! Love and Prayers to Mom and Dad💗💗💗💗💗💗🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽

pa changa's avatar

Evil will not prevail.

偉雷蛇's avatar

An excellent essay with many powerfully articulated points. With all respect to Professor Blight, it seems he has a reductive view of identity, as if it's some distraction from what is "real." We are literally heading towards a second civil war because of struggles over identity.

Neural Foundry's avatar

This is absolutely brillaint work. As someone who studied public history in grad school, I can tell you how much our profession needs voices like Blights right now. His point about how the present continually impinges on our work really resonated with me, because its exactly what we're facing when we try to teach students to think critcally about our nations past.

Cort Gross's avatar

Thx. Your and Prof Blight’s hx has been a refuge and a resource this decade. As a hx major — of the Reformation, whose echoes I often hear in current events — and still a lover of hx, I know of no better way of knowing — whose way and purpose Prof Blight so eloquently, with deep and wide-ranging scholarship, spells out here. Again, thank you.