Friday, November 05, 2021

What's In a Name?

 Rider University in New Jersey has changed the name of its Van Cleve Alumni House to the Alumni House after research into the namesake revealed he owned slaves. [More]

I guess we'll have to go to the archives to find out if school namesake Andrew Jackson Rider was named in honor of a "slave owner [and] ethnic cleanser"...

[Via Michael G]

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