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Paul Harvey

Paul Harvey

Paul Harvey is a professor of American history at the University of Colorado, Colorado Springs. Harvey is an author/co-author/editor of eleven books on religion and race in American history.

Martin Luther King Jr. had a much more radical message than a dream of racial brotherhood

By: - January 20, 2022

Martin Luther King Jr. has come to be revered as a hero who led a nonviolent struggle to reform and redeem the United States. His birthday is celebrated as a national holiday. Tributes are paid to him on his death anniversary each April, and his legacy is honored in multiple ways. But from my perspective […]

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4 myths the Trump team promoted about Andrew Johnson

By: - February 6, 2020

The claims: Andrew Johnson then, like Donald Trump now, was unjustly impeached by a group of radicals in the House of Representatives. Fortunately – so the claim continues – enough honest and brave men withstood forces in their own party and voted against convicting Johnson in the Senate. Among those was Sen. Edmund Ross of […]