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How 'Black Panther' Taps Into 500 Years of History

The film draws on centuries of black dreams of independence to create Wakanda.
by N. D. B. Connolly via The Hollywood Reporter on February 16, 2018
Mural of a wedding on a plantation, while African Americans working in fields.

'Until Death or Distance Do You Part'

African American marriages before and after the Civil War.
by Alexis Coe, Tera W. Hunter via Lenny Letter on February 13, 2018

The Slave Revolution That Gave Birth to Haiti

A rebellion against French colonial rule in 1791 led to a new kind of society.
by Laurent Dubois, Rocky Cotard via The Nib on February 5, 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
Ed Ayers next to the cover of his book, "The Thin Light of Freedom."
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The Thin Light of Freedom

On this episode of BackStory, Brian sits down with Ed to talk about a project of his that’s been twenty-five years in the making.
via BackStory on November 17, 2017

Introducing Reconstruction

The new Slate Academy finds the seeds of our present politics in the period after the Civil War.
by Jamelle Bouie, Rebecca Onion via Slate on October 27, 2017

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

Everyone Needs to See The Roots' Schoolhouse Rock-Style Slavery Lesson From 'Black-ish'

"I'm Just a Slave" is a necessary song about Juneteenth.
by Matt Miller via Esquire on October 4, 2017

The Alamo: The First and Last Confederate Monument?

The Alamo supposedly honors the courage of Anglos pitted against Mexican brutality. In fact, it is about slavery and emancipation.
by Jorge Cañizares-Esguerra via Arcade on September 18, 2017

The Monuments We Never Built

Why we must ask not only what stories our landscapes of commemoration tell, but also what stories they leave out.
by Brian Hamilton via Edge Effects on August 22, 2017
Elizabeth Freeman.
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How Two Massachusetts Slaves Won Their Freedom — And Then Abolished Slavery

What today's activists can learn from their victories.
by Ben Railton via Made By History on July 3, 2017

The Making of an Antislavery President

Fred Kaplan's new book asks why it took Abraham Lincoln so long to embrace emancipation.
by Eric Herschthal via The New Republic on June 23, 2017

The Necessity of Juneteenth

The most famous Emancipation holiday is more necessary now than it has ever been.
by Vann R. Newkirk II via The Atlantic on June 19, 2017

Frederick Douglass, Refugee

Throughout modern history, the millions forced to flee as refugees have felt Douglass' agony, and thought his thoughts.
by David W. Blight via The Atlantic on February 7, 2017

Who Freed the Slaves?

For some time now, the answer has not been the abolitionists.
by Stephanie McCurry via The Nation on September 13, 2016
An "Information Wanted" advertisement from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Courtesy of the National Archives.

Last Seen: Finding Family After Slavery

Last Seen is recovering stories of families separated in the domestic slave trade. The following explains how the project engages with these family histories.
via Villanova University on August 1, 2016

Is the Greatest Collection of Slave Narratives Tainted by Racism?

How Depression-Era racial dynamics may have shaped our understanding of antebellum enslaved life.
by Rebecca Onion via Slate on July 6, 2016

Slavery and Freedom

Eric Foner, Walter Johnson, Thavolia Glymph, and Annette Gordon-Reed discuss trends in the study of slavery and emancipation.
by Eric Foner, Thavolia Glymph, Annette Gordon-Reed, Walter Johnson via YouTube on May 20, 2016
Lithograph of Freedman's Bureau official separating freedmen from hostile whites.

The Freedmen's Bureau

A primary source set and teaching guide created by educators.
by Hillary Brady via Digital Public Library of America on October 14, 2015

Juneteenth and Barbecue

The menu of Emancipation Day.
by Daniel Vaughn via Texas Monthly on June 16, 2015

Our Commemoration of the Civil War’s End Celebrates a Myth

The emancipation of black Americans has been written out of our celebration of the Civil War's end.
by Jamelle Bouie via Slate on April 14, 2015

Mapping Occupation: Force, Freedom, and the Army in Reconstruction

A detailed look at when and where the U.S. Army was able to enforce the new rule of law in the years following the Civil War.
by Gregory P. Downs, Scott Nesbit via Mapping Occupation on March 1, 2015

How Watermelons Became a Racist Trope

Before its subversion in the Jim Crow era, the fruit symbolized black self-sufficiency.
by Bill Black via The Atlantic on December 8, 2014

The Problem of Slavery

David Brion Davis’s philosophical history.
by Scott Spillman via The Point on July 23, 2014

Lincoln and Marx

The transatlantic convergence of two revolutionaries.
by Robin Blackburn via Jacobin on August 28, 2012
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How Suffering Shaped Emancipation

Jim Downs discusses the plight of freed slaves during the Civil War and Reconstruction.
by Jim Downs, Robin Lindley via HNN on August 6, 2012
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Who Invented Memorial Day?

As Americans enjoy the holiday weekend, does anyone know how Memorial Day originated?
by Jim Downs via HNN on May 28, 2012

A Topic Best Avoided

After the Civil War, Abraham Lincoln faced the issue of sorting out a nation divided over the issue of freed slaves. But what were his views on it?
by Nicholas Guyatt via London Review of Books on December 1, 2011
Painting representing the Great Migration: African Americans going through gates to Chicago, New York, and St. Louis.

The Changing Definition of African-American

How the great influx of people from Africa and the Caribbean since 1965 is challenging what it means to be African-American.
by Ira Berlin via Smithsonian on February 1, 2010
Political cartoon of Freedman's Bureau agent separating angry whites from defensive freedmen.

The Freedmen's Bureau

“No sooner had Northern armies touched Southern soil than this old question, newly guised, sprang from the earth: What shall be done with slaves?”
by W.E.B. Du Bois via The Atlantic on March 1, 1901
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