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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

Professional Motherhood: A New Interpretation of Women in the Early Republic

Guest poster C.C. Borzilleri writes about professional motherhood in the early American republic.
by C. C. Borzilleri via The Junto on January 21, 2020

‘A Doubtful Freedom’

Andrew Delbanco's new book positions the debate over fugitive slaves as a central factor in the nation's slide toward disunion.
by David W. Blight via New York Review of Books on January 14, 2020

A Personal Act of Reparation

The long aftermath of a North Carolina man’s decision to deed a plot of land to his former slaves.
by Kirk Savage via Lapham’s Quarterly on December 15, 2019

Land of the Free

The story of America is precisely the heroic story of pioneers who bring the American ideal again and again to the West.
by Christopher Flannery via Claremont Review of Books on December 13, 2019
Photo of John Brown holding a flag and raising his right hand as if in oath.

A Hero in the Midst of Cowards

The righteous rage of John Brown.
by Jonathan Burdick via The Erie Reader on December 4, 2019

American Slavery and ‘the Relentless Unforeseen’

What 1619 has become to the history of American slavery, 1688 is to the history of American antislavery.
by Sean Wilentz via New York Review of Books on November 19, 2019
Still from "Harriet" depicting Tubman holding a scared girl and pointing a shotgun.
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What ‘Harriet’ Gets Right About Tubman

In the 1850s, abolitionists, including black women, fought for freedom by force.
by Kellie Carter Jackson via Made By History on November 1, 2019
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The 19th Amendment Was a Crucial Achievement. But it Wasn’t Enough to Liberate Women.

It’s time to fight for the original and heretofore unachieved goals of the women’s movement.
by Holly Jackson via Made By History on October 17, 2019
Lewis Leary.

Alive With Ghosts Today

Lewis Leary, who volunteered in John Brown's raid on Harper's Ferry, later inspired poetry by Langston Hughes.
by Sarah Kay Bierle via Emerging Civil War on October 16, 2019

The Anti-Slavery Constitution

From the Framers on, Americans have understood our fundamental law to oppose ownership of persons.
by Timothy Sandefur via National Review on September 12, 2019

The Boycott’s Abolitionist Roots

How a group of 19th-century Quakers cut their economic ties to slavery.
by Willy Blackmore via The Nation on August 14, 2019

The New Fugitive Slave Laws

In criminalizing the provision of humanitarian assistance to migrants, we have resurrected the unjust laws of antebellum America.
by Manisha Sinha via New York Review of Books on July 17, 2019
Pride parade passes the Stonewall Inn.
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Stonewall's Legacy and Kwame Anthony Appiah's Misuse of History

The New York Times should have done a better job fact-checking Appiah’s essay. Philosophy may be allegorical. History isn’t.
by Alan J. Singer via HNN on June 23, 2019

Escaped Nuns

Why some antebellum reformers thought convents were incompatible with "true womanhood."
by Pete Cajka, Cassandra L. Yacovazzi via Religion in American History on June 17, 2019
Painting by Titus Kaphar entitled "Page 4 of Jefferson’s ‘Farm Book"

How Proslavery Was the Constitution?

A review of a book by Sean Wilentz's "No Property in Man," which argues that the document is full of anti-slavery language.
by Nicholas Guyatt via New York Review of Books on June 2, 2019

The Birthplace of American Slavery Debated Abolishing it After Nat Turner’s Bloody Revolt

Virginia engaged in “the most public, focused, and sustained discussion of slavery and emancipation that ever occurred."
by Gregory S. Schneider via Retropolis on June 1, 2019
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These Photo Albums Offer a Rare Glimpse of 19th-Century Boston’s Black Community

Thanks to the new acquisition, scholars at the Athenaeum library are connecting the dots of the city’s history of abolitionists.
by Dana Lorch via Smithsonian on May 29, 2019

The Statue of Liberty Was Created to Celebrate Freed Slaves, Not Immigrants

Lady Liberty was inspired by the end of the Civil War and emancipation. The connection to immigration came later.
by Gillian Brockell via Retropolis on May 23, 2019

Julius Scott’s Epic About Black Resistance in the Age of Revolution

"The Common Wind" covers the radical world of black mariners, rebels, and runaways banding together to realize their freedom.
by Manisha Sinha via The Nation on May 20, 2019

Antislavery Wasn’t Mainstream, Until It Was

After Republicans lost their first election in 1856, Democrats declared slavery opposition radical and fringe. Then came 1860.
by Matthew Karp via Jacobin on May 11, 2019

When Kansas Was Bleeding

How the territory became the frontline of the battle for abolition.
by Tristan J. Tarwater, Chelsea Saunders via The Nib on April 22, 2019

The Internationalist History of the US Suffrage Movement

What we miss when we tell the story of women's rights activism as a strictly national tale.
by Katherine M. Marino via National Park Service on March 28, 2019
Martin Luther King Jr. criticizes the Vietnam war at a speech at University of Minnesota in 1967.
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Centrism and Moderation? No Thanks.

In times of moral crisis, everyone picks a side — even those proclaiming neutrality.
by April Holm via Made By History on February 27, 2019
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