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Beacon Broadside: Revising Huck Finn, Revising History

January 2011
  The Classic American Novel, Huckleberry Finn has weathered centuries of controversy. The latest one—removing the ‘‘n’-word to make the book appeal to educators—is a well-intentioned mistake that changes the author’s intention and the role of academics to wrestle with difficult issues.

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