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“two different concepts of history”: Robin W. Winks, “A Place for Liberty Monument,” The Times-Picayune (New Orleans), August 17, 1992. |
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“think the unthinkable”: Report of the Committee on Freedom of Expression at Yale, December 23, 1974, available at http://yalecollege.yale.edu/deans-office/policies-reports/report-committee-freedom-expression-yale |
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“most powerful and influential defense”: Peter Salovey, Launching a Difficult Conversation, August 29, 2015, available at http://yalecollege.yale.edu/open-conversation/launching-difficult-conversation. |
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“obscure[] the legacy of slavery”: Peter Salovey, Decisions on Residential College Names and “Master” Title, April 27, 2016, available at http://president.yale.edu/speeches-writings/statements/decisions-residential-college-names-and-master-title. |
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“grievous mistake”: Glenda Elizabeth Gilmore, “At Yale, a Right That Doesn’t Outweigh a Wrong,” New York Times, April 29, 2016. |
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“our missed opportunity”: “News’ View: Our Missed Opportunity,” Yale Daily News, April 28, 2016. |
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“college formerly known as”: Alejandra Padin-Dujon, “Giving Thanks,” Down Mag, April 30, 2016, available at http://downatyale.com/giving-thanks/. |
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“Name of a White Supremacist”: Noah Remnick, “Defying Protests, Yale Will Keep Name of a White Supremacist on a College,” New York Times, April 27, 2016. |
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“strongly request[ing]”: David Shimer & Victor Wang, “Faculty, Scholars Call for Renaming of Calhoun College,” Yale Daily News, May 27, 2016. |
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“now clear to me”: “Campus Update: Committee to Establish Principles on Renaming,” August 1, 2016, available at http://president.yale.edu/speeches-writings/statements/campus-update-committee-establish-principles-renaming. |
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“ablest man I ever knew”: “Speech of Senator John F. Kennedy, State House, Columbia, SC,” October 10, 1960, The American Presidency Project, available at http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/?pid=25755. |
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“Calhoun’s name led all the rest”: Ibid. |
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“unconstitutional, and therefore null”: John C. Calhoun, “Address to the People of the United States,” in Clyde N. Wilson, ed., The Papers of John C. Calhoun (Columbia, S.C.: University of South Carolina Press, 1978), 11: 669, 672. |
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“concurrent voice”: John C. Calhoun, “A Disquisition on Government,” in Wilson, ed., Calhoun Papers, 28: 7, 20. |
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“give each interest or portion”: Ibid., 28: 26. |
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“speculative thinker”: John Stuart Mill, Considerations on Representative Government (London: Parker, Son and Bourn, 1861), 306-07. |
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“consociationalism”: Arend Lijphart, Democracy in Plural Societies: A Comparative Exploration (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1977), 21, 36-38. |
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“the occasion, rather than the real cause”: John C. Calhoun to Virgil Maxcy, September 11, 1830, in Wilson, ed., Calhoun Papers, 11: 226, 229. |
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“where two races”: John C. Calhoun, “Remarks on Receiving Abolition Petitions (Revised Report),” in Wilson, ed., Calhoun Papers, 13: 391, 395. |
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“a great and dangerous error”: Calhoun, “Disquisition,” 28: 37-38. |
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“so high an elevation in morals”: John C. Calhoun to Richard Pakenham, April 18, 1844, in Wilson, ed., Calhoun Papers, 18: 273-77. |
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“veritable New Jerusalem”: “Antislavery Principles and Antislavery Acts: Addresses Delivered in Cincinnati, Ohio, on 27, 28, 29 April 1852,” in John W. Blassingame et al. eds., The Frederick Douglass Papers – Series One: Speeches, Debates, and Interviews (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1982), 2: 351. |
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“self-evident truths”: Frederick Douglass, “Slavery, Freedom, and the Kansas-Nebraska Act: An Address Delivered in Chicago, Illinois, on 30 October 1854,” in Blassingame et al. eds., Frederick Douglass Papers, 2: 545-46. |
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“civilized” people … “savage people”: John C. Calhoun, “Alteration of the System for Trading with the Indians, December 5, 1818,” in American State Papers: Indian Affairs (Washington, D.C.: Gals and Seaton, 1834), 2: 131. |
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“incessant pressure”: John C. Calhoun to President James Monroe, January 24, 1825, in American State Papers: Indian Affairs, 2: 544. |
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“wretched aborigines”: John C. Calhoun, “Extinguishment of Indian Title to Lands in Georgia, March 30, 1824,” in American State Papers: Indian Affairs, 2: 460, 462. |
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“Indians themselves”: Calhoun, “Trading with the Indians,” 2: 185. |
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“savage customs and character”: Ibid., 2: 183. |
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“force and persuasion”: Ibid. |
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“unlimited sway”: Theodore D. Woolsey, An Historical Discourse Pronounced Before the Graduates of Yale College, August 14, 1850 (New Haven: B. L. Hamlen, 1850), 77. |
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“great measure” … “disgraceful spectacle”: George P. Fisher, Life of Benjamin Silliman (New York: Charles Scribner and Co., 1866), 2: 98. |
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“acute controversial atmosphere”: “Alumni University Day,” Yale Alumni Weekly, February 27, 1931, 609, 610. |
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“most eminent graduate”: Minutes of the Education Policy Committee, February 6, 1931, and Minutes of the Education Policy Committee, May 8, 1931, Records of James Rowland Angell, President of Yale University, RU 24, Series I, box 70, Manuscripts and Archives, Sterling Library, Yale University. |
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“to honor John C. Calhoun”: Yale University Corporation and Prudential Committee Minutes, RU 307, Series I, box 16, folder 1, Manuscripts and Archives, Sterling Library. |
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“on the side of the past”: Anson Phelps Stokes, Memorials of Eminent Yale Men (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1914), 2: 133. |
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“some adequate memorial”: Anson Phelps Stokes to Carl A. Lohman, February 7, 1931, Secretary Office Records 1899-1953, RU 49, box 237, Manuscripts and Archives, Sterling Library. |
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“tactless to name”: “Civil War Caused Calhoun College to Change Names with Trumbull: Yankee Beliefs of Donor Brought About Shift by Yale Officials,” Yale Daily News, May 15, 1941. |
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“by virtue of which”: Leonard Bacon, Slavery Discussed in Occasional Essays, from 1833 to 1846 (New York: Baker and Scribner, 1846), x. |
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“If slavery is not wrong”: Abraham Lincoln to Albert G. Hodges, April 4, 1864, in Roy Basler et al. eds., The Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln (New Brunswick, N.J.: Rutgers University Press, 1953), 7: 281 |
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“I suppose that I ought”: “Lines Read by Mr. Leonard Bacon at the Dinner Held on October 31, 1933, to Celebrate the Opening of Calhoun College,” Lewis Walpole Library. |
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“States’ Rights theories”: “The Attitude of Parties,” New York Globe, February 9, 1884. |
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“slavery is a positive good”: “Observations: Religious Orientation,” The Chicago Defender, November 10, 1932. |
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“the Negro’s arch enemy”: “Kelly Miller Tells Why Negro Should Vote For Roosevelt,” The Pittsburgh Currier, October 10, 1936. |
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“ever be besmirched”: W.E.B. DuBois, Behold the Land (Birmingham, Alabama: Southern Negro Youth Congress, 1946), 9. |
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one self-identified African-American student: Robert Nelson Corwin to W.E.B. DuBois, May 21, 1931, box 143, folder 1510 (“Negroes at Yale”), James Roland Angell Papers, Manuscripts and Archives, Sterling Library. |
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The Class of 1960 … as many as five: Daniel Horowitz, On the Cusp: The Yale College Class of 1960 and a World on the Verge of Change (Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 2015), 77; The Yale Class Book 1960 (New Haven: Yale Banner Publications, 1960). |
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“Ten … in the Class of 1964”: Report of the Committee to Review the Status of Minority Students in Yale College (Robert A. Dahl, chair), 1977, p. 6. |
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“Nearly one hundred … in the Class of 1973”: Ibid. |
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“shock, anger, and then outrage”: Armstead L. Robinson & Donald H. Ogilvie, “Old Blues in black and white,” Yale Alumni Magazine, July 1, 1993, available at https://yalealumnimagazine.com/blog_posts/1284. |
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“Calhoun Plantation”: Noah Remnick, “Yale Grapples with Ties to Slavery in Debate over a College’s Name,” New York Times, September 12, 2015. |
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“book-burning”: Chris Rabb, “We Should Not Forget Who Calhoun Was,” Yale Daily News, April 6, 1992. |
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“ghettoized”: Scott Stern, “Old Colleges, New Names,” Yale Daily News, October 27, 2014. |
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“Like the official display”: Calhoun College Petition, available at https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfE8qhKII3C3bXKEDmEUM_K43UyipRPJubfWNW6bwu9i-54Sw/viewform. |
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“The Slave Quarters”: Sarah Maslin, “In Pierson’s Lower Court, a Tainted History,” Yale Daily News, September 23, 2013. |
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“Yale is committed”: Yale Mission Statement, available at http://www.yale.edu/about-yale/mission-statement. |
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Easily “contented” … “die out”: David W. Blight, Frederick Douglass: A Life (New York: Simon and Schuster, forthcoming 2018), ch. 23. |
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came to regret: Ray Hardman, “Yale’s Calhoun College: History Lesson or Institutional Racism?,” WNPR, June 23, 2015, available at http://wnpr.org/post/yales-calhoun-college-history-lesson-or-institutional-racism. |