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History Was Never Subject to Democratic Control

Elite merchants put up a statue of a British slave trader. A band of protesters toppled it. Who decides what happens now?

by Helen Lewis via The Atlantic on August 9, 2021

A supporter of US President Donald Trump holds a Confederate flag outside the Senate Chamber during a protest after breaching the US Capitol in Washington, DC, January 6, 2021. - The demonstrators breeched security and entered the Capitol as Congress debated the 2020 presidential election Electoral Vote Certification.

Jan. 6 Was a "Turning Point" in American History

Pulitzer-winning historian Annette Gordon-Reed reflects on the battle for the past and the fragile state of American democracy.

by Annette Gordon-Reed, Chauncey DeVega via Salon on July 12, 2021

The raised fists of a crowd of protesters.

We Have to Face History No Matter How Hard We Try to Erase It.

Let’s remember that performative anti-racism is as profitable politically as racism has been.

by Peter Van Buren via The American Conservative on July 5, 2021

"Head of a Negro" (1777 or 1778), by John Singleton Copley.

The Declaration of Independence’s Debt to Black America

When African Americans allied themselves with the British, the Patriots were enraged, and they acted.

by Woody Holton via Washington Post on July 2, 2021

Restaurant with 'Help Wanted' sign

‘Help Wanted’ Signs Indicate Lack of Decent Job Offers, Not People Unwilling to Work

The 19th-century antecedent to today’s complaints of labor shortage.

by Samuel Niu via Made By History on June 30, 2021

A newspaper drawing of the Nat Turner Rebellion.

Looking for Nat Turner

A new creative history comes closer than ever to giving us access to Turner’s visionary life.

by Alberto Toscano via Boston Review on June 29, 2021

Artist's rendition of Omar ibn Said

A Quest for the True Identity of Omar ibn Said, a Muslim Man Enslaved in the Carolinas

Omar ibn Said was captured in Senegal at 37 and enslaved in Charleston. A devout Muslim, he later converted to the Christian faith of his enslavers. Or did he?

by Jennifer Berry Hawes via Post and Courier on May 27, 2021

Wooden cross in the Eli Jackson Methodist Church cemetery in San Juan, Texas.

When Slaves Fled to Mexico

A new book tells the forgotten story of fugitive slaves who found freedom south of the border.

by David S. Reynolds via New York Review of Books on May 13, 2021

George Washington riding into town while a crowd cheers.

Mary Ball Washington, George’s Single Mother, Often Gets Overlooked – but she's Well Worth Saluting

Martha Saxton dives into the life of the mother of George Washington and how historians have misrepresented her in the past.

by Martha Saxon via The Conversation on May 7, 2021

Le Marron Incconu, a statue of an enslaved man with a conch shell, dedicated to the abolishment of slavery.

Slave Rebellions and Mutinies Shaped the Age of Revolution

Several recent books offer a more complete, bottom-up picture of the role sailors and Black political actors played in making the Atlantic world.

by Steven Hahn via Boston Review on April 22, 2021

Handcuffs with chain of $

The Men Who Turned Slavery Into Big Business

The domestic slave trade was no sideshow in our history, and slave traders were not bit players on the stage.

by Joshua D. Rothman via The Atlantic on April 20, 2021

Decolonize Hipsters

The history of hipsters is a not-so-secret history of race in the Atlantic world.

by Grégory Pierrot via Guernica on April 20, 2021

Original bars on a window are seen in the basement of the Freedom House Museum in Alexandria, Va.

The Deep Cruelty of U.S. Traders of Enslaved People Didn’t Bother Most Americans

Debunking the myths of the domestic slave trade.

by Joshua D. Rothman via Made By History on April 14, 2021

Arabian silver coin from Yemen in 1693, found in Rhode Island

Arabian Coins Found in U.S. May Unlock 17th-Century Pirate Mystery

The discovery may explain the escape of Captain Henry Every after his murderous raid on an Indian emperor’s ship.

via The Guardian on April 1, 2021

Man holding up a sign during the Capitol Siege

The Post-Trump Crack-Up of the Evangelical Community

Its embrace of an ignominious president is forcing a long-overdue reckoning with the movement’s embrace of white supremacy and illiberal politics.

by Audrey Clare Farley via The New Republic on March 16, 2021

A painting of a slave ship.

New York City and the Persistence of the Atlantic Slave Trade

Even after slave trade was banned, the United States and New York City, in particular, were complicit in allowing it to persist.

by Gerald Horne via The Nation on February 24, 2021

John C. Calhoun

American Heretic, American Burke

A review of Robert Elder's new biography of John C. Calhoun.

by Allen C. Guelzo via The New Criterion on February 4, 2021

An illustration of Black men pulling a platform covered in trash and American symbols.

What Price Wholeness?

A new proposal for reparations for slavery raises three critical questions: How much does America owe? Where will the money come from? And who gets paid?

by Shennette Garrett-Scott via New York Review of Books on January 18, 2021

Statue of Mary Seacole by Martin Jennings in front of St Thomas' Hospital, London.

African Americans, Slavery, and Nursing in the US South

Following backlash to the construction of a statue for Mary Seacole, Knight describes the connection between nursing and slavery in the US South.

by R. J. Knight via Nursing Clio on January 7, 2021

Portrait of Martin Delany in uniform

The Organizer’s Mind of Martin Delany

Delany's insistence on interest-based coalitions, evident in his fiction and political prose, explains his late-Reconstruction defection to the Democrats and his strategies for revolution.

by Andrew Donnelly via Insurrect! on January 4, 2021

‘A Land Where the Dead Past Walks’

Faulkner’s chroniclers have to reconcile the novelist’s often repellent political positions with the extraordinary meditations on race, violence, and cruelty in his fiction.

by Brenda Wineapple via New York Review of Books on December 20, 2020

Engraving of a vaccinated child.

An Eradication: Empire, Enslaved Children, and the Whitewashing of Vaccine History

Enslaved children were used in medical trials for early smallpox vaccines. They have been forgotten.

by Farren E. Yaro via Age of Revolutions on December 7, 2020

Monument of a fist holding a broken shackle

Atlantic Slavery: An Eternal War

Julia Gaffield reviews two books that discuss the transatlantic slave trade.

by Julia Gaffield via Public Books on November 30, 2020

Women surrounding a Confederate flag.

The Guerrilla Household of Lizzie and William Gregg

White women were as married to the war as their Confederate menfolk.

by Joseph M. Beilein Jr. via Nursing Clio on November 9, 2020

A Black enslaved woman holding a white child.

The Visual Documentation of Racist Violence in America

Before and during the Civil War, both enslavers and abolitionists used photography to garner support for their causes.

by Mary Niall Mitchell via Black Perspectives on November 4, 2020

Rethinking Rufus book cover

The Rape of Rufus? Sexual Violence Against Enslaved Men

"Rethinking Rufus" argues that enslaved black men were sexually violated by both white men and white women.

by Thomas A. Foster via NOTCHES on October 27, 2020

Washington is Named for a President who Owned Slaves. Should It Be?

What's behind the name of the state? And who was our first president, really?

by Ron Judd via The Seattle Times on October 11, 2020

Descent book cover

Identity as a Hall of Mirrors

A review of "Descent" – a family story that blends the real world and the imagination.

by Jesi Buell via The Rumpus on October 7, 2020

Gettysburg Battlefield, with monuments visible in the distance

We Need to Talk About Confederate Statues on U.S. Public Lands

At places like the Gettysburg battlefield and Arlington National Cemetery, there's a new, escalating conflict over monuments that honor the Lost Cause.

by Alex Heard via Outside on September 28, 2020

Re-watching ‘The Civil War’ During the Breonna Taylor and George Floyd Protests

The landmark Ken Burns documentary hasn’t aged well. But it continues to shape American perceptions about the Confederacy and slavery.

by Gillian Brockell via Retropolis on September 26, 2020

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