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The Role of Postmodernism in American History
Colin Coleman: I see this latest sort of embrace of postmodernist, postcolonial, various critical theories as an extension of the new left interpretation of history. He says it's wrong to teach that our our country was founded to preserve slavery rather than founded on principles that ultimately made that criminal institution untenable. "I think what our students should learn ... is that we do have agency," he adds.
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