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The 'Slave Block' in a Town in Virginia: Should it Stay or Should it Go?

This is not a monument, it’s a piece of history. But should it be removed from view?

by David Caprara via The Guardian on September 1, 2017

American Sphinx

Civil War monuments erased an emancipated Black population, but the Sphinx looked to an integrated Africa and America.

by Colin Dickey via Longreads on August 31, 2017

Microphone hovers over a portrait of George Washington.

What Trump — And His Critics — Get Wrong About George Washington and Robert E. Lee

The two men owned slaves — but at vastly different moments in American history.

by Patrick Rael via Made By History on August 23, 2017

Robert E. Lee monument.

Falling Out of Love with the Civil War

America's unconditional love of the Civil War has blinded us to its true meaning.

by Sarah Handley-Cousins via Nursing Clio on August 21, 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

Charlottesville: Why Jefferson Matters

Annette Gordon-Reed explores the ways in which the many paradoxes of Jefferson make him a potent figure for racists and anti-racists alike.

by Annette Gordon-Reed via New York Review of Books on August 19, 2017

Is it Still Okay to Venerate George Washington and Thomas Jefferson?

The president's stand on the Confederate hero represents the kind of moral relativism that conservatives usually decry.

by David A. Bell via Washington Post on August 17, 2017

The Pernicious Myth of the ‘Loyal Slave’ Lives on in Confederate Memorials

Statues don’t need to venerate military leaders of the Civil War to promulgate false narratives.

by Kevin M. Levin via Smithsonian on August 17, 2017

Tear Down the Confederates’ Symbols

The battle against the remnants of Confederate sentiment is a battle against both white supremacy and class rule.

by Tyler Zimmer via Jacobin on August 16, 2017

A Confederate Statue Is Gone, But the Fight Remains in Durham

The city isn't rushing to put it back up.

by Nash Jenkins via TIME on August 15, 2017

What Would Jefferson Say About White Supremacists Descending Upon his University?

Jefferson had a complicated relationship with white supremacy.

by Ibram X. Kendi via Made By History on August 13, 2017

Amos Lawrence.

The Bostonian Who Armed the Anti-Slavery Settlers in "Bleeding Kansas"

How Amos Adams Lawrence became an abolitionist.

by Robert K. Sutton via Zócalo Public Square on August 8, 2017

The 19th-Century African-American Actor Who Conquered Europe

And why you might never have heard of Ira Aldridge.

by Natasha Frost via Atlas Obscura on August 7, 2017

We Don’t Need a TV Show About the Confederacy Winning. In Many Ways, it Did.

HBO's “Confederate” assumes America is much further from its slaveholding past than it really is.

by Bree Newsome via Washington Post on August 2, 2017

Demonstrator with sign that reads "Journalism is not a crime"

When the War on the Press Turns Violent, Democracy Itself is at Risk

The bloody history of attacks on American journalists.

by Joshua D. Rothman via Made By History on August 1, 2017

The South Rises Yet Again, This Time on HBO

In a world where Confederate flags continue to fly, it is hard not to cry “enough” at this continued emphasis on all-things-Confederate.

by Nina Silber via Muster on July 31, 2017

Police Dogs and Anti-Black Violence

Police brutality has been a hot topic in contemporary society, but when did this all really start and where did dogs get involved?

by Tyler D. Parry via Black Perspectives on July 31, 2017

A Party in Secret Passes an Overwhelmingly Unpopular Law. We’ve Been Here Before.

It ended in disaster.

by Michael Todd Landis via HNN on July 9, 2017

Elizabeth Freeman.

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

Historians Uncover Slave Quarters of Sally Hemings at Thomas Jefferson’s Monticello

Archaeologists have uncovered the slave quarters of Sally Hemings at Thomas Jefferson’s Monticello mansion.

by Michael Cottman via NBC News on July 3, 2017

How Charleston Celebrated Its Last July 4 Before the Civil War

As the South Carolina city prepared to break from the Union, its people swung between nostalgia and rebellion.

by Paul Starobin via What It Means to Be American on June 29, 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

Chronicling “America’s African Instrument”

The banjo's history and its symbolism of community, slavery, resistance, and ultimately America itself.

by Laurent Dubois, Stephanie Kingsley via Perspectives on History on June 19, 2017

The Thrilling Tale of How Robert Smalls Seized a Confederate Ship and Sailed it to Freedom

He risked his life to liberate his family and became a legend in the process.

by Cate Lineberry via Smithsonian on June 13, 2017

Slave Consumption in the Old South: A Double-Edged Sword

Buying goods in the Old South revealed the fragile politics at the heart of master-slave relation.

by Kathleen Hilliard via Process: A Blog for American History on June 12, 2017

Sojourner Truth

Compare the Two Versions of Sojourner Truth's “Ain’t I a Woman” Speech

Why is there more than one version of the famous 1851 speech?

by Leslie Podell via The Sojourner Truth Project on June 6, 2017

Man painting over a Robert E. Lee mural.

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 Battle for Memorial Day in New Orleans

A century and a half after the Civil War, Mayor Mitch Landrieu asked his city to reexamine its past — and to wrestle with hard truths.

by David W. Blight via The Atlantic on May 29, 2017

Painting of Washington on horseback as his soldiers trudge through snow to Valley Forge.

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

A Case for Reparations at the University of Chicago

What does the institution owe the descendants of slaves?

by Guy Emerson Mount, Caine Jordan, Kai Parker via Black Perspectives on May 22, 2017

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