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Erasing Woodrow Wilson, Evading History?

TAKE A BREATH

The students at Princeton are right to say President Wilson was a racist, but that does not mean his ghost should be banished from campus. History is more complicated than that.

Trygve Throntveit
Trygve Throntveit
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Trygve Throntveit

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