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  1. 1. Spending first two weeks of US history survey talking about what historians do, using debates about Selma, LBJ-MLK as starting point.
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      2. We'll first look back to contested interpretations of Booker T. Washington's dinner with Teddy Roosevelt. nytimes.com/2008/11/09/weekinreview/09harris.html
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        3. Then we'll go farther back to the New Year's reception by Lincoln that @katemasur recently wrote about: washingtonpost.com/opinions/new-years-in-the-lincoln-white-house/2015/01/01/4a5d541e-9074-11e4-a412-4b735edc7175_story.html
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          4. Point of earlier stories: to show how conflicting evidence, perspective shapes judgments about AL's and TR's relations with black guests
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            5. That will then provide critical tools for thinking about what a convo like this b/w LBJ & MLK proves or doesn't millercenter.org/presidentialrecordings/lbj-wh6501.04-6736
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