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Pompeii: Graffiti, Signs & Electoral Notices
The Roman town of Pompeii was preserved in metres of volcanic material following the cataclysmic eruption...
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Turonensis 980, the Deluxe Manuscripts of the Excerpta
This is the first folio of the manuscripts of the Excerpta de Virtutibus et Vitiis, stored in...
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What to the Slave is the Fourth of July? - Frederick Douglass' Challenge to America
"What, to the Slave, is the Fourth of July?" is Frederick Douglass' masterwork...
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Frederick Douglass' "What to the Slave is the Fourth of July?" read by James Earl Jones
In a July Fourth special broadcast, we share the words of Frederick Douglass...
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The Heroic Slave - Frederick Douglass' Novella of the Creole Mutiny
Abolitionist author, orator and statesman Frederick Douglass (1818-1895) is well-known...
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Dred Scott Decision - Worst Supreme Court Ruling in US History
The Dred Scott Decision (Dred Scott v. Sandford, 60 U.S. (19 How.) 393 (1857) was the infamous...
