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Formal photograph of Ulysses S. Grant.

Public Monuments and Ulysses S. Grant’s Contested Legacy

It is fair to ask whether Grant’s prewar experiences define the entirety of his character, and who sets the bar for which public figures deserve commemoration.
by Nick Sacco via Muster on July 7, 2020
Robert Smalls

What Woodrow Wilson Did to Robert Smalls

We all know, in the abstract, that Wilson was a white supremacist. But here’s how he wielded his racism against one accomplished Black American.
by Aderson François via The New Republic on July 3, 2020
6 Black Americans celebrating Juneteenth in 1900.

Reunion, Juneteenth and the Meaning of the Civil War

What would it mean to define the Civil War as a necessary and crucial final step in the long, even more tragic history of slavery in America?
by Ben Railton via The Saturday Evening Post on June 16, 2020
Boston's Emancipation Memorial depicting a black man kneeling in front of Abraham Lincoln.

Black Bostonians Fought For Freedom From Slavery. Where Are The Statues That Tell Their Stories?

Contrary to the image of the kneeling slave, Black abolitionists did not wait passively for the "Day of Jubilee." They led the charge.
by Kevin M. Levin via WBUR on June 16, 2020

America Begins to See More Clearly Now What Its Black Citizens Always Knew

The present round of protest is different. The participants are people of every race, ethnicity, sex, age, and religion.
by Theodore R. Johnson III via National Review on June 11, 2020

The Patriot Slave

The dangerous myth that blacks in bondage chose not to be free in revolutionary America.
by Farah Peterson via The American Scholar on June 2, 2020
Graphic of Sojourner Truth testifying in court.

The Electrifying Speeches of Sojourner Truth

Daina Ramey Berry details the life of the outspoken activist Sojourner Truth and her legendary speaking tour.
via TED on April 28, 2020
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Red Chicago

A visit with artists and public historians in Chicago who are working to keep the memory of the city's "Red Summer" alive.
via Future Of America's Past on March 12, 2020

BookChat with David Silkenat, Author of Raising the White Flag

The Civil War started with a surrender, ended with a series of surrenders, and had several of its major campaigns end in surrender.
by David Silkenat, Chris Mackowski via Emerging Civil War on March 4, 2020

6 Myths About the History of Black People in America

Six historians weigh in on the biggest misconceptions about black history, including the Tuskegee experiment and enslaved people’s finances.
by Jessica Machado, Karen Turner via Vox on February 18, 2020
Illustration of Lincoln consulting with military figures in a tent.

Did Lincoln Really Matter?

What the Civil War tells us about who has the power to shape history.
by Adam Gopnik via The New Yorker on February 10, 2020

This Day in Labor History: December 1, 1868

On folk hero John Henry.
by Erik Loomis via Twitter on December 1, 2019
Portraits of John Adams (left) and John Quincy Adams (right).

The Fall of the House of Adams: Charles Francis Adams Jr. on Race and Public Service

A look inside America’s first political dynasty.
by Douglas R. Egerton via We're History on November 25, 2019

The Ghosts of Elaine, Arkansas, 1919

In America’s bloody history of racial violence, the little-known Elaine Massacre may rank as the deadliest.
by Jerome B. Karabel via New York Review of Books on September 30, 2019

Telling the Untold History

When Civil War reenacting began, it was largely the province of folks who wished to uphold the Old South myth. Now, a more diverse group of reenactors is pushing back.
by S. E. Curtis via The Bitter Southerner on September 17, 2019
Sketches of soldiers on the cover of "Bodies In Blue."

Civil War Disability in the Light and the Dark

Beyond the "casualty numbers and bloodshed," a new history takes into account the "social and structural issues" of disability among soldiers and veterans.
by Sarah Handley-Cousins, Evan P. Sullivan via Nursing Clio on August 6, 2019
Black men confront armed whites in a Chicago street.

‘Ready To Explode’

How a black teen’s drifting raft triggered a deadly week of riots 100 years ago in Chicago.
by William Lee via Chicago Tribune on July 21, 2019

The Deadly Race Riot ‘Aided and Abetted’ by the Washington Post a Century Ago

A front-page article helped incite the violence in the nation’s capital that left as many as 39 dead.
by Gillian Brockell via Retropolis on July 15, 2019

The Class Politics of the Civil War

By naming a common enemy the Union Army was able to build and then steer a coalition of Americans toward the systematic destruction of slavery.
by James Oakes via The Nation on July 15, 2019

A Crime by Any Name

The Trump administration’s commitment to deterring immigration through cruelty has made horrifying conditions in there inevitable.
by Adam Serwer via The Atlantic on July 3, 2019

A Hundred Years After the Armistice

If you think the First World War began senselessly, consider how it ended.
by Adam Hochschild via The New Yorker on October 28, 2018
Artistic photo for black history

The Trouble With Uplift

A curiously inflexible brand of race-first neoliberalism has taken root in American political discourse.
by Adolph Reed Jr. via The Baffler on September 4, 2018
James Armistead.

How an Enslaved Man-Turned-Spy Helped Secure Victory at the Battle of Yorktown

James Armistead was an enslaved man who provided critical intel to the Continental Army as a double agent during the Revolutionary War.
by Thaddeus Morgan via HISTORY on April 23, 2018
Civil War era envelope with a political cartoon with Confederate leaders hung as traitors.

When the Government Refused to Use Slavery to Recruit Soldiers, the Media Had No Qualms

With questionable motives, America finally saw black Union soldiers living and dying alongside their white countrymen.
by Brendan Seibel via Timeline on April 17, 2018
Artist Titus Kaphar says that his 2014 Columbus Day Painting—which greets "Unseen" visitors in the first gallery—was inspired by his young son’s conflicted and confusing study of the putative discoverer of America.

Two Artists in Search of Missing History

A new exhibition makes a powerful statement about the oversights of American history and America’s art history.
by Alicia Ault via Smithsonian on April 4, 2018

One of History's Foremost Anti-Slavery Organizers Is Often Left Out of Black History Month

The Reverend Dr. Henry Highland Garnet may be the most famous African American you never learned about.
by Paul Ortiz via TIME on January 31, 2018
Union veterans at the Pennsylvania Soldiers' and Sailors' Home, Erie Pennsylvania, ca. 1897.
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How Work Requirements for Medicaid Hurt People with ‘Invisible’ Disabilities

"Able-bodied” doesn't always mean “able to work.”
by Sarah Handley-Cousins via Made By History on January 18, 2018

Civil War Life in all its Day-to-Day Contrasts

In his latest work of history, Edward Ayers captures daily life along with the military and political moves.
by James Oakes via Washington Post on October 27, 2017

The Myth of the Kindly General Lee

The legend of the Confederate leader’s heroism and decency is based in the fiction of a person who never existed.
by Adam Serwer via The Atlantic on June 4, 2017

The Conservative Revolution of 1776

The leaders of the Revolutionary War -- and their vision for the nation -- were far from revolutionary.
by Diana Muir Appelbaum via The New Rambler on May 29, 2017
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