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james_davis_nicoll ([personal profile] james_davis_nicoll) wrote2008-05-01 03:34 pm

Context is for the weak

Even I know the difference between Stephen Douglas and Frederick Douglass.

Somewhere a Fox news editor's history teacher is weeping.

[identity profile] tekalynn.livejournal.com 2008-05-02 12:38 am (UTC)(link)
Stephen A. Douglas: prominent mid-nineteenth century politician, today almost exclusively remembered for being the "Douglas" of the Lincoln-Douglas debates.