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“This Machine Kills Fascists:” The Life and Music of Woody Guthrie
At one time or another, we have all sung it: This land is your land This land is my land From California To the New York Island From the redwood forest to the gulf stream waters This land was made for...
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Music helped the social and political revolution that was the fight for civil rights. Entire black neighborhoods came together to listen to music on each other’s front porches and in local businesses....
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Singing the History of the U.S. Marine Corps
“Uncle Harry says we’re just police And he should really know— We’ve arrested wars since we began, And dealt the final blow.” – Anonymous The Marine Corps is one of the smallest, yet perhaps most...
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Juneteenth: The Joy of Freedom
This June, Americans across the country will commemorate their past with barbeques, baseball games, parades and speeches. Wait, June? These festivities may remind you of the Fourth of July but, two...
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‘We are the World’: Ethiopia, Famine and U.S. Humanitarianism
On January 28, 1985, in a fit of pique, Cyndi Lauper declared, “That’s right! Ain’t what we’re doing trying to unite the world?” ((“A Time When We Heed A Certain Call,” Life Magazine, April 1, 1985,...
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Beyond Ebola: Interwoven Histories of Liberia and the United States
I went to Liberia looking for quilts. Admittedly, it was an unusual search in a country built nearly on the equator in West Africa. Nestled in between Sierra Leone, Guinea, and Ivory Coast, Liberia’s...
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