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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

"Poor Whites Have Been Written out of History for a Very Political Reason"

For generations, Southern white elites have been terrified of poor whites and black workers joining hands.
by Keri Leigh Merritt, Robert Greene II via Jacobin on August 24, 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
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

Equal-Opportunity Evil

A new book shows that for female slaveholders, the business of human exploitation was just as profitable as it was for men.
by Rebecca Onion via Slate on February 14, 2019

“My Dear Master”: An Enslaved Blacksmith’s Letters to a President

This document is the rarest of items in the Library of Congress's manuscript collections: a letter written by an enslaved person.
by Adam Rothman via Library of Congress on February 5, 2019
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The Drunkard’s Progress

Two hundred years ago, it was hard for Americans to miss the message that they had a serious drinking problem.
by Benjamin Breen on January 17, 2019

The Question Without a Solution

The horrors of the fugitive slave laws, the costs of union, and the value of comity.
by Alan Jacobs via Weekly Standard on November 24, 2018
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How the Supreme Court Fractured the Nation — and How It Threatens to Do So Again

Abortion and America’s new sectional divide.
by H. W. Brands via Made by History on November 20, 2018

America’s Struggle for Moral Coherence

The problem of how to reconcile irreconcilable values is what led to the Civil War. It hasn’t gone away.
by Andrew Delbanco via The Atlantic on November 12, 2018

The Myth of a Southern Democracy

Voter suppression tactics have roots in Southern history dating to the Antebellum era.
by Keri Leigh Merritt via The Bitter Southerner on November 1, 2018

America Descends Into the Politics of Rage

Trump and other peddlers of angry rhetoric may reap short-term gains, but history suggests they will provoke a fearsome backlash.
by Joanne B. Freeman via The Atlantic on October 22, 2018

"The Most Potent Money Power": Slave Traders, Dark Money, and Elections

In the midst of the secession crisis, Unionists accused slave traders of waging an assault on democracy.
by Robert K. D. Colby via Muster on October 19, 2018
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Stop Worrying About a Second Civil War

Predictions of society coming undone reflect deep anxieties over the divisions roiling the country, but these professed fears about our future actually provide hope.
by Jason Phillips via Made by History on October 12, 2018

Raising Cane

The violence on Capitol Hill that foreshadowed a bloody war.
by Joanne B. Freeman via Lapham’s Quarterly on September 15, 2018

A House Still Divided

In 1858, Lincoln warned that America could not remain “half slave and half free.” The threat today is as existential as it was before the Civil War.
by Ibram X. Kendi via The Atlantic on September 13, 2018

On Richard Blackett’s "The Captive Quest for Freedom"

Five historians weigh in on a new book about the 1850 Fugitive Slave Act.
by Martha S. Jones, Jeffrey R. Kerr-Ritchie, Elizabeth R. Varon, H. Robert Baker, Hannah-Rose Murray, Simon Newman via Historians Against Slavery on August 2, 2018

Story of Paris Hill Man Connects Maine to ‘Complexities’ of Slave Trade

Torn from his family in Africa, Pedro Tovookan Parris spent the last years of his short life in rural Maine.
by Kelley Bouchard via Press Herald on July 15, 2018

Neither Snow nor Rain nor Secession? Mail Delivery and the Experience of Disunion in 1861

Whether it ran smoothly or ground to a halt, the mail offered daily reminders that the hand of war touched every aspect of life.
by Michael E. Woods via Muster on June 26, 2018

How Ceiling Fans Allowed Slaves to Eavesdrop on Plantation Owners

The punkahs of the Antebellum era served many purposes.
by Eve Kahn via Atlas Obscura on May 14, 2018

The Lessons of a School Shooting – in 1853

How a now-forgotten classroom murder inflamed the national gun argument.
by Saul Cornell via Politico Magazine on March 24, 2018

Today’s Eerie Echoes of the Civil War

We may not be in the midst of a war today, but the progress of democracy in this country is still tied to the rights of its most vulnerable citizens.
by Manisha Sinha via New York Review of Books on March 6, 2018

In the Shadows of Slavery’s Capitalism

"Masterless Men" shows how the antebellum political economy made poor southern whites into a volatile, and potentially disruptive, class.
by Calvin Schermerhorn via Black Perspectives on March 5, 2018

Abraham Lincoln's Secret Visits to Slaves

Former slaves claimed the president came to plantations disguised as a beggar or a peddler, telling them they’d soon be free. 
by Bill Black via The Atlantic on February 12, 2018

How Hoop Skirts Actually Advanced Women's Rights

The difficult-to-wear skirt helped to break down class barriers.
by Skye Makaris via Racked on December 7, 2017
Robert E. Lee statue
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Robert E. Lee WAS a Man of Honor. That’s the Problem.

For white southerners, honor had little to do with justice.
by Kevin Waite via Made by History on November 7, 2017

Lincoln: The Great Uncompromiser

He fought to remake the center—not yield to it.
by Matthew Karp via The Nation on October 25, 2017
Violence during the "Unite the Right" rally in Charlottesville on August 12, 2017.

America's Deadly Divide - and Why it Has Returned

Civil War historian David Blight reflects on America’s Disunion – then and now.
by David W. Blight via The Guardian on August 20, 2017
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What Jared Kushner Could Learn from a Man He’s Probably Never Heard of

Donald Trump and Andrew Jackson are not the only similarities between the two administrations.
by Bruce W. Dearstyne via HNN on August 13, 2017
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Partisanship is an American Tradition — And Good for Democracy

Bipartisanship is the exception, not the rule.
by Aaron Astor via Made by History on July 12, 2017
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