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The Russians claim they want to be more like us, but do they have any idea who we are?

They were the first black men to fight in the Civil War. They were the first to serve alongside whites. And they were the first to die.

75 years ago this month, a not-especially-good band cut a record that transformed our culture.

The fiercest struggle going on in education is about who owns the past. Passionate multi-culturalists say that traditional history- teaching has brushed out minority ethnic identities. Their opponents say that radical multi-culturalism leads toward national fragmentation.

The Cold War was an anomaly. More often than not, the world’s two greatest states have lived together in uneasy amity. And what now?