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Richard D. Brown

Richard D. Brown

On 1619 and Woody Holton’s Account of Slavery and the Independence Movement: Six Historians Respond

by Carol Berkin, Richard D. Brown, Jane E. Calvert, Joseph J. Ellis, Jack N. Rakove, Gordon S. Wood

Sep 6, 2021

Sep 6, 2021

Richard D. Brown

White Supremacism and Privilege: Legacies of Slavery

Affirmative action programs are a beginning; but nothing less than a change in consciousness is required to erase negrophobia and the…

Dec 18, 2019

White Supremacism and Privilege: Legacies of Slavery

Dec 18, 2019

Richard D. Brown

America’s heartland is in Connecticut as much as it’s in the Midwest.

(This piece was co-authored with Ron Formisano.)

Jun 10, 2019

America’s heartland is in Connecticut as much as it’s in the Midwest.

Jun 10, 2019

Richard D. Brown

The Original Constitution of the United States: Religion, Race, and Gender

Many who declare that Americans in 2018 should stick to the original words of the United States Constitution, ratified in 1788, fail to…

Sep 21, 2018

The Original Constitution of the United States: Religion, Race, and Gender

Sep 21, 2018

Richard D. Brown

The Politics of Civility: From George Washington to Donald Trump

(This piece was co-authored with Richard Lyman Bushman.)

Oct 10, 2017

The Politics of Civility: From George Washington to Donald Trump

Oct 10, 2017

Richard D. Brown

Equal Rights in President Donald Trump’s America

“We are a nation founded on the truth that all of us are created equal,” President Trump has declared. “We are equal,” he said, “in the…

Sep 12, 2017

Equal Rights in President Donald Trump’s America

Sep 12, 2017

Richard D. Brown

March On Washington Was Day to Remember and Relive— as the Struggle for Equal Rights Continues

A version of the article below was first published in August 2013, as the 50th anniversary of the 1963 March on Washington for Jobs and…

Aug 29, 2017

March On Washington Was Day to Remember and Relive— as the Struggle for Equal Rights Continues

Aug 29, 2017

Richard D. Brown

“Here we are all the same”: The Constitution guaranteed freedom of religion, but the fight for…

The age of revolution brought an enlightened political ideology to the modern world. Among its many achievements, none faces greater global…

Jul 2, 2017

“Here we are all the same”: The Constitution guaranteed freedom of religion, but the fight for…

Jul 2, 2017

Richard D. Brown

The All-American History of Fake News

After Time asked “Is Truth Dead?” the digital giants Google and Facebook stepped up efforts to help readers distinguish genuine news…

Jun 24, 2017

The All-American History of Fake News

Jun 24, 2017

Richard D. Brown

A Republic If You Can Keep It

In 1787 when Benjamin Franklin left the Constitutional Convention a lady famously asked “Well Doctor, what have we got, a republic or a…

Jun 4, 2017

Jun 4, 2017

Richard D. Brown

Richard D. Brown

Historian @UConn @UConnHistory. 2017 book "Self-Evident Truths" @YalePress. @SelfEvidentBook http://yalebooks.com/book/9780300197112/self-evident-truths

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