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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 Magazine 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

Robert E. Lee Topples From His Pedestal

The Confederate general has long been seen, in the South and beyond, as embodying the virtues of the ideal man.

by Kevin M. Levin via The Atlantic on May 19, 2017

Mr. President, You're Right About Andrew Jackson

If Jackson's presidency had been later, he may have prevented the Civil War.

by Daniel Ruddy via Newsmax on May 6, 2017

Out of Sight, Out of Mind: Mass Incarceration

The rise of mass incarceration in the early 1970s was fueled by white fear of black crime. But the fear of crime wasn’t confined to whites.

by Adam Shatz via London Review of Books on May 4, 2017

Wealth, Slavery, and the History of American Taxation

The nation's first "colorblind" tax set the stage for over two centuries of systematic consolidation of white racial interests.

by Christopher F. Petrella via Black Perspectives on April 20, 2017

A Dual Emancipation

How black freedom benefited poor whites.

by Keri Leigh Merritt via Black Perspectives on April 15, 2017

It’s Time for Historians of Slavery to Listen to Economists

Economic analyses of the antebellum era upend the notion that Southern whites were united in their support of slavery.

by Keri Leigh Merritt via Historians Against Slavery on March 17, 2017

Ben Carson, Donald Trump, and the Misuse of American History

The eliding of the ugliness of America's racial history is neither novel nor particularly surprising.

by Jelani Cobb via The New Yorker on March 8, 2017

When Slaveholders Ran America

Before the Civil War, many Southern leaders hoped to expand slavery even beyond the nation's borders.

by Abrahim Sundiata via Public Books on March 1, 2017

What the Fugitive Slave Act Teaches Us About How States Can Resist Oppressive Federal Power

The actions of attorneys general in California and other states have their antecedents in the fight against that draconian law.

by Eric Foner via The Nation on February 8, 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

A Brief History of Sanctuary Cities

Today's debate over sanctuary cities embodies a much longer debate in America over federalism.

by H. Robert Baker via Tropics of Meta on February 2, 2017

National Park Service ranger presented with Senate resolution for new monument.

Monumental Effort: Historians and the Creation of the National Monument to Reconstruction

Two historians weigh in on President Obama's move to designate a national monument to Reconstruction in South Carolina.

by Kate Masur, Gregory P. Downs, Kritika Agarwal via Perspectives on History on January 24, 2017

Decoder: The Slave Insurance Market

How much did slave owners pay for antebellum-era policies from Aetna, AIG, and New York Life?

by Michael Ralph, William Rankin via Foreign Policy on January 16, 2017

The Accidental Patriots

Many Americans could have gone either way during the Revolution.

by Caitlin Fitz via The Atlantic on December 1, 2016

Indians, Slaves, and Mass Murder: The Hidden History

Two historians shed light on the atrocities of Native American enslavement and genocide.

by Peter Nabokov via New York Review of Books on November 24, 2016

Slavery, Democracy, and the Racialized Roots of the Electoral College

The Electoral College was created to help white Southerners maintain their disproportionate influence in national governance.

by Christopher F. Petrella via Black Perspectives on November 14, 2016

Why Haiti Should be at the Centre of the Age of Revolution

Haiti, not the US or France, was where the assertion of human rights reached its climax in the Age of Revolution.

by Laurent Dubois via Aeon on November 7, 2016

Strummin’ on the Old Banjo

How an African instrument got a racist reinvention.

by Ben Marks via Collectors Weekly on October 4, 2016

Image of enslaved man in chains, with the words "Remember Your Weekly Pledge"

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

Deep in the Swamps, Archaeologists Are Finding How Fugitive Slaves Kept Their Freedom

The Great Dismal Swamp was once a thriving refuge for runaways.

by Richard Grant via Smithsonian Magazine on September 1, 2016

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