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Black Agency in the Creation of the Modern World
Even as historical scholarship has grown more sophisticated, the educated public’s familiarity with leading-edge historical interpretations has almost certainly diminished. I can only speak, with any authority, about the roughly 6,000-plus undergraduates I …