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Rebecca Koerselman

An Overland Trip

One historian described it as an expedition that seemed a “tedious march from one place to another made known to them by Indians and French

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Incurious

Are you a person that has an answer for everything? Jemar Tisby, an American historian, wrote a meditation entitled “The People Who Don’t Have Any

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The Lord’s Army

Some of those jingly jangly camp songs still pop into my head from time to time (this one, in the tune of ‘The Old Grey

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Getting the Side Eye

While watching a reality show, I noticed a group of white women explain to the non-white woman in the group that her words about her

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Memories of Combat

What does Memorial Day mean to you? I have never served in the armed forces or participated in a war, but as a student of

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On Suffering

I’ve never taught about the Cold War at the same time that Russia invaded the Ukraine. Up until a few years ago, I had never

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