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during the 'Night at the Museum

the American public first learned about the heroism of the black troops of the 54th Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry and their courageous assault on Fort Wagner

American leaders naively believed that they could woo men like Philippe Pétain

including rare soldiers’ letters published in local newspapers and other firsthand accounts located in small historical societies

Yale and Slavery: A History (Blight) farm during the 'Night at theby David W. Blight A comprehensive look at how slavery and resistance to it have shaped Yale University The most mature examination ever made of the role of slavery in a universitys past.John Samuel Harpham, Times Literary Supplement Award winning historian David W. Blight, with the Yale and Slavery Research Project, answers the call to investigate Yale Universitys historical involvement with slavery, the slave trade, and abolition. This narrative