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Christopher Clausen

Christopher Clausen is the author of Faded Mosaic: The Emergence of Post-Cultural America.

Between Two Worlds

The familar story of Pocahontas was mirrored by that of a young Englishman given as a hostage to her father

by Christopher Clausen | Friday, June 01, 2007

The Most Important Election in History

Is it possible to elect a president without invoking that phrase?

by Christopher Clausen | Monday, September 01, 2008

Sesquicentennial Excess

Must we erase evidence of later commemorations at Civil War sites?

by Christopher Clausen | Monday, June 01, 2009

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THIS WEEK’S ARCHIVE PICK

School Survival

by Anne P. Beatty

As L.A. teachers prepare to go on strike, we’re revisiting an essay by Anne P. Beatty about her time teaching high school in South Central Los Angeles, where her homeroom class often paused for a moment of silence to mourn students who had died in drive-by shootings. Her students knew that this was not the case in wealthier school districts. “They knew that somewhere there were schools with computers that worked, just as they knew that somewhere it was safe to walk through the streets at night,” Beatty writes. “They knew it wasn’t normal for 16-year-olds to die.” But what she found shocking, her students had to learn to endure. “Apathy was involved in giving in to the violence, and there was despair over the prospect of a better future.”