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		<title>Cincinnati&#8217;s Connections to the Civil War</title>
		<link>http://freedomcenter.org/freedom-forum/index.php/2011/12/cincinnatis-connections-civil-war/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Dec 2011 16:07:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jodie McFarland</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Cincinnati&#8217;s role in the American Civil War was significant on many levels. Guns were manufactured here. Several training camps were established around the city to prepare Union troops for battle. And, for one month in 1862, Cincinnati was threatened by invasion from the South, which would have made it the first Norhtern city to fall [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Remembering Rosa</title>
		<link>http://freedomcenter.org/freedom-forum/index.php/2011/12/remembering-rosa/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 02 Dec 2011 14:39:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jodie McFarland</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today marks the anniversary of the first full day of the Birmingham Bus Boycott in 1955. On December 1 of that year, Rosa Parks refused to give up her bus seat to a white man, prompting her arrest and sparking the boycott that helped to fuel the growing Civil Rights movement. Arrests and violent confrontations [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Civil War and the Era of Big Government</title>
		<link>http://freedomcenter.org/freedom-forum/index.php/2011/11/civil-war-era-big-government/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Nov 2011 19:01:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jodie McFarland</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It is an issue that seems to permeate many a discussion about the operation of the Federal government and its impact on the lives of the individual citizens of this nation. Some citizens, such as those affiliated with the Tea Party, shout it from the roof tops. Others imply their disaffection through their anger at [...]]]></description>
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		<title>What can Occupy Teach Us about History???</title>
		<link>http://freedomcenter.org/freedom-forum/index.php/2011/10/occupy-teach-history/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 19 Oct 2011 14:01:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jodie McFarland</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://freedomcenter.org/freedom-forum/?p=6674</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[One of the goals of Occupy is to try and bring an end to the 1% influencing politics through their exorbitant wealth. The fear is that this tier of people has created an elite government of special interests geared toward the too big to fail business interests while ignoring the real needs of the country. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Columbus Day 2011: Still Reaping the Benefits of Enslavement</title>
		<link>http://freedomcenter.org/freedom-forum/index.php/2011/10/columbus-day-2011-reaping-benefits-enslavement/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 10 Oct 2011 15:40:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jodie McFarland</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://freedomcenter.org/freedom-forum/?p=6640</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Last year I had the distinct pleasure of giving a tour of the Freedom Center to a group of international visitors that was comprised of representatives of four different continents; Africa, Asia, Europe, and South America. As we were discussing issues of enslavement at the Anderson slave pen, one of our distinguished guests from Chile [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Proving that the Pen is Mightier than the Sword</title>
		<link>http://freedomcenter.org/freedom-forum/index.php/2011/09/proving-pen-mightier-sword/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Sep 2011 15:26:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jodie McFarland</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://freedomcenter.org/freedom-forum/?p=6521</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[We’ve all heard the expression, “the pen is mightier than the sword.” The pen can indeed do a great many things in the hands of the right person, and the pen can do damage when it is found in the hands of the wrong person. The pen has seen its share of triumph and tragedy, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>An Emancipation Milestone</title>
		<link>http://freedomcenter.org/freedom-forum/index.php/2011/09/emancipation-milestone/</link>
		<comments>http://freedomcenter.org/freedom-forum/index.php/2011/09/emancipation-milestone/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Sep 2011 15:51:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jodie McFarland</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://freedomcenter.org/freedom-forum/?p=6483</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[It was on this date 149 years ago that the preliminary Emancipation Proclamation was released to the public. This document differed from the final version that Americans have come to both celebrate and revile for their own various reasons, but it was indeed issued as a clear warning to the Confederacy that action was going [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Overlooking the Importance of Empowerment</title>
		<link>http://freedomcenter.org/freedom-forum/index.php/2011/09/overlooking-importance-empowerment/</link>
		<comments>http://freedomcenter.org/freedom-forum/index.php/2011/09/overlooking-importance-empowerment/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Sep 2011 14:36:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jodie McFarland</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://freedomcenter.org/freedom-forum/?p=6457</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[“We do not affirm that the North is fighting in behalf of the black man’s rights, as such—if this was the single issue, we even doubt whether they would fight at all. But circumstances have been so arranged by the decrees of Providence, that in struggling for their own nationality they are forced to defend [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Emancipation Proclamation: A Case of Clear Cut Ambiguity</title>
		<link>http://freedomcenter.org/freedom-forum/index.php/2011/09/emancipation-proclamation-case-clear-cut-ambiguity/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Sep 2011 14:05:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jodie McFarland</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://freedomcenter.org/freedom-forum/?p=6428</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The view from our 21st century lens reveals the less than idyllic nature of our history as a nation and a people. However, in peeling back the layers of utopianism we have created a new concept of history as being the polar opposite of what we were taught by our outdated classroom textbooks, and we [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Viewing Emancipation Through the Proper Lens</title>
		<link>http://freedomcenter.org/freedom-forum/index.php/2011/09/viewing-emancipation-proper-lens/</link>
		<comments>http://freedomcenter.org/freedom-forum/index.php/2011/09/viewing-emancipation-proper-lens/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Sep 2011 14:22:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jodie McFarland</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://freedomcenter.org/freedom-forum/?p=6342</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Great Emancipator or blatant racist? As we sit in our comfortable armchair quarterback seats of choice, our society in the 21st century has the ability to piece together sound bytes and snippets of information in the name of making an “informed” decision about history and the people who made it. There is a problem with [...]]]></description>
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