Day: August 14, 2020
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August 14, 2020
Thanks to Alissa Simon, HMU Tutor, for today’s post.
The trouble with history is that someone is always writing it. By that I mean, that a single person gives their perspective of an event or series of events, which is an important idea to hold in mind when discussing historical documents. We began Harrison Middleton University’s current series, Discussions in Equity, with Frederick Douglass’s “My Escape from Slavery” and Martin Luther King,