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Drawing of building on fire, with crowd outside

Many Tulsa Massacres

How the myth of a liberal North erases a long history of white violence.

by Anna-Lisa Cox, Christy Clark-Pujara via National Museum of American History on August 25, 2020

The Revolutions

Ed Ayers visits public historians in Boston and Philadelphia and explores what “freedom” meant to those outside the halls of power in the Revolutionary era.

via Future Of America's Past on March 16, 2020

Higher Education's Reckoning with Slavery

Two decades of activism and scholarship have led to critical self-examination.

by Leslie M. Harris via Academe on January 1, 2020

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

Harriet Beecher Stowe imagining her characters.

“Uncle Tom’s Cabin” and the Art of Persuasion

Stowe’s novel shifted public opinion about slavery so dramatically that it has often been credited with fuelling the war that destroyed the institution.

by Annette Gordon-Reed via The New Yorker on June 6, 2011

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