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Q&A with Mark Mclay, author of ‘The Republican Party and the War on Poverty: 1964–1981’

Tell us a bit about your book. My book is on recent American political history. It examines the Republican Party’s challenge to Democratic President Lyndon B. Johnson’s ‘War on Poverty’. It shows that leading Republicans – most notably President Ronald…

  • Kirsty Crosbie
  • May 11, 2021

The Douglass family and the roots of activism and social justice

By Celeste-Marie Bernier and Andrew Taylor Frederick Douglass. Just the name alone is enough to inspire us to think of a life lived in activism and an unceasing fight for social justice. But there are other names in the life…

  • Carla Hepburn
  • February 15, 2018

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