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\n","url":"https://micro.blog/wcaleb/86213235","date_published":"2026-03-14T20:56:48+00:00","author":{"name":"W. Caleb McDaniel","url":"http://wcaleb.org","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Favatars.micro.blog%2Favatars%2F2024%2F21%2F1620562.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"wcaleb"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-03-14 20:56","date_timestamp":1773521808,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":true,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":true}},{"id":"86128723","content_html":"Grateful for a generous review of Slavery, Segregation, and the Second Founding of Rice University in the History of Education Quarterly.
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\nOne of the fascinating things we saw was this law book belonging to firm co-founder Peter W. Gray, into which Gray had...
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