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Artistic collage of black leaders surrounded by images associated with prohibition.

The Forgotten History of Black Prohibitionism

We often think of the temperance movement as driven by white evangelicals set out to discipline Black Americans and immigrants. That history is wrong.
by Mark Lawrence Schrad via Politico Magazine on February 6, 2021
Duncanson landscape painting

Robert S. Duncanson Charted New Paths for Black Artists in 19th-Century America

Deemed “the greatest landscape painter in the West,” he achieved rare fame in his day.
by Alex Greenberger via Art In America on January 29, 2021
Portrait of Martin Delany in uniform

The Organizer’s Mind of Martin Delany

Delany's insistence on interest-based coalitions, evident in his fiction and political prose, explains his late-Reconstruction defection to the Democrats and his strategies for revolution.
by Andrew Donnelly via Insurrect! on January 4, 2021
Breakfast Room at Belle Grove Plantation in White Chapel, Louisiana

Troubled Indemnity

A history of the United States shifting the financial burden of emancipation onto enslaved people.
by Nikki Shaner-Bradford via Lapham’s Quarterly on December 21, 2020

This Guilty Land: Every Possible Lincoln

Abraham Lincoln is widely revered, while many Americans consider John Brown mad. Yet it was Brown’s strategy that brought slavery to an end.
by Eric Foner via London Review of Books on December 17, 2020
Erie Canal historical marker

The ‘Psychic Highway’ that Carried the Puritans’ Social Crusade Westward

Elements of the Puritans’ unique worldview were handed down for generations and were carried westward by their descendants, the people we call Yankees.
by Gregory Rodriguez via Contra Mundum on November 22, 2020
A Black enslaved woman holding a white child.

The Visual Documentation of Racist Violence in America

Before and during the Civil War, both enslavers and abolitionists used photography to garner support for their causes.
by Mary Niall Mitchell via Black Perspectives on November 4, 2020

Can Biden Be Pushed Left?

History suggests that what you see on the campaign trail, or even in a candidate’s past record, is not always what you get from a president once in power.
by Bob Master via Dissent on October 14, 2020
Freedmen's memorial.

Of, By & For the Freedmen

On the aesthetics and history of the Freedman’s Memorial in Washington, D.C.
by Allen C. Guelzo, James Hankins via The New Criterion on October 1, 2020
Abraham Lincoln

Why We Keep Reinventing Abraham Lincoln

Revisionist biographers have given us countless perspectives, from Honest Abe to Killer Lincoln. Is there a version that’s true to his time and attuned to ours?
by Adam Gopnik via The New Yorker on September 21, 2020
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Trump’s 2020 Playbook Is Coming Straight from Southern Enslavers

Racism — not reformers demanding redress — is the source of American strife.
by Elizabeth R. Varon via Made By History on September 9, 2020

The Revolutionary Thoreau

Generations of readers have chosen to emphasize Thoreau's spiritual communion with Nature, but Walden begins with trenchant critique of “progress.”
by R. H. Lossin via New York Review of Books on September 4, 2020
William Lloyd Garrison

The Country That Was Built to Fall Apart

Why secession, separatism, and disunion are the most American of values.
by Richard Kreitner, Rebecca Onion via Slate on August 15, 2020

The Douglass Republic

How today's protests are struggling to reclaim the vision of the great abolitionist leader.
by Jabari Asim via The New Republic on August 14, 2020
Black Lives Matter demonstrators.
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A Long-Forgotten Holiday Animates Black Lives Matter

The movement for racial equality echoes the vision of the “August First Day” holiday.
by Tom Zoellner via Made By History on July 31, 2020

The World’s Human Rights Convention and the Paradox of American Abolitionism

An inquiry into a utopian vision of abolitionism.
by Bennett Parten via Journal of the History of Ideas Blog on July 29, 2020
Illustration of a bald eagle menacing a black parent and child in front of what appears to be a government building

Circulating the Facts of Slavery

How the American Anti-Slavery Almanac became an influential best seller.
by Teresa A. Goddu via Lapham’s Quarterly on July 28, 2020

The Death of Hannah Fizer

Black people suffer disproportionately from police violence. But white skin does not provide immunity.
by Barbara J. Fields, Adam Rothman via Dissent on July 24, 2020
A portrait of David Ruggles, who opened the first black-owned bookstore in America, between two white men.

The First Black-Owned Bookstore and the Fight for Freedom

Black abolitionist David Ruggles opened the first Black-owned bookstore in 1834, pointing the way to freedom—in more ways than one.
by Vickie Cox Edmondson, Dorothy B. Porter, Ashawnta Jackson, Archie B. Caroll via JSTOR Daily on July 10, 2020

Shopping for Racial Justice, Then and Now

Using one’s buying power to support causes one believes in and to effect change is not new.
by Bronwen Everill via Harvard University Press Blog on June 18, 2020

One Week to Save Democracy

Lessons from Frederick Douglass on the tortured relationship between protest and change.
by David W. Blight via The Atlantic on June 5, 2020

The Making of the Radical Republicans

How did the struggle for emancipation become a mass politics?
by Eric Foner via The Nation on May 5, 2020
Photo of Frederick Douglass

Frederick Douglass: The Most Photographed American of the 19th Century

Be Woke presents Black History in two minutes (or so).
via YouTube on April 3, 2020

The Science of Abolition

On Hosea Easton’s and David Walker’s attempts to debunk scientific racism.
by Lynne Feeley via Lapham’s Quarterly on March 4, 2020
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A Founder of American Religious Nationalism

On Rousas Rushdoony's political thought and lasting influence on the Christian right.
by Katherine Stewart via HNN on March 3, 2020

Slavery Was Defeated Through Mass Politics

The overthrow of slavery in the US was a battle waged and won in the field of democratic mass politics; a battle that holds enormous lessons for radicals today.
by Matthew Karp via Jacobin on February 24, 2020
Watercolor of Abraham Lincoln with soldiers in swirls of red across his face.

Abraham Lincoln’s Radical Moderation

What the president understood that the zealous Republican reformers in Congress didn’t.
by Andrew Ferguson via The Atlantic on February 15, 2020

Slave Hounds and Abolition in the Americas

How dogs permeated slave societies and bolstered European ambitions for colonial expansion and social domination.
by Tyler D. Parry, Charlton W. Yingling via Past & Present on February 4, 2020

The Hidden Stakes of the 1619 Controversy

Critics of the New York Times’s 1619 Project obscure a longstanding debate among historians over whether the American Revolution was a proslavery revolt.
by David Waldstreicher via Boston Review on January 24, 2020

A Matter of Facts

The New York Times’ 1619 Project launched with the best of intentions, but has been undermined by some of its claims.
by Sean Wilentz via The Atlantic on January 22, 2020
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