Writing in The Atlantic, a Yale historian reprises the very point I made here: We should rebuke our history, not whitewash it.
Wholesale “name-changing” in the form of erasure is bad history and, worse, it represents the forfeiture of an important educational opportunity. Teaching students about whatever structural racism continues to exist in America requires using every available artifact, including Calhoun College.
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The U.S. should own up to the past, see it for what it was, not brush it away.