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Why There Was a Civil War

Some issues aren’t amenable to deal making; some principles don’t lend themselves to compromise.
by Yoni Appelbaum via The Atlantic on May 1, 2017

Hunting Down Runaway Slaves: The Cruel Ads of Andrew Jackson and the 'Master Class'

A historian collecting runaway slave ads describes them as “the tweets of the master class.”
by DaNeen L. Brown via Retropolis on May 1, 2017
U.S. soldiers in the Civil War.

Expanding the Slaveocracy

The international ambitions of the US slaveholding class and the abolitionist movement that brought them down.
by Eric Foner, Matthew Karp via Jacobin on March 21, 2017
lithograph of enslaved workers using a cotton gin.

To Remake the World: Slavery, Racial Capitalism, and Justice

What if we use the history of slavery as a standpoint from which to rethink our notion of justice today?
by Walter Johnson via Boston Review on October 19, 2016

What Bill O’Reilly Doesn’t Understand About Slavery

The kindness of masters is meaningless in the context of a hereditary chattel system that turned humans into property.
by Rebecca Onion via Slate on July 28, 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
Map of slave trade in Virginia.
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The Forced Migration of Enslaved People

An interactive set of maps and narratives of the forced migration of approximately 850,000 enslaved people from 1810-1860.
by Ed Ayers, Robert K. Nelson, Justin Madron, Nathaniel Ayers via American Panorama on December 1, 2015

Slavery Myths Debunked

The Irish were slaves too; slaves had it better than factory workvers; black people fought for the Confederacy; and so on.
by Jamelle Bouie, Rebecca Onion via Slate on September 29, 2015

Why America Needs a Slavery Museum

A wealthy white lawyer has spent 16 years and millions of dollars turning the Whitney Plantation into a memorial to the nation's past.
by Paul Rosenfeld via The Atlantic on August 25, 2015
A painting of U.S. Navy Lt. Stephen Decatur battling Muslim sailors, Tripoli, August 1804.

America’s Forgotten Images of Islam

Popular early U.S. tales depicted Muslims as menacing figures in faraway lands or cardboard moral paragons.
by Peter Manseau via The Wall Street Journal on February 27, 2015
Newspaper advertisement offering enslaved young men for hire.
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Slaves for Hire

On the phenomenon of “hiring out” enslaved persons prior to the Civil War, and how this introduced some slaves to the world of wages.
via BackStory on August 29, 2014

The Problem of Slavery

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

These Maps Reveal How Slavery Expanded Across the United States

As the hunger for more farmland stretched west, so too did the demand for enslaved labor.
by Lincoln Mullen via Smithsonian Magazine on May 15, 2014
Black family sitting around log cabin, possibly in Florida, 1892.

Plantations Practiced Modern Management

Slaveholding plantations of the 19th century used scientific management techniques—and some applied them more extensively than factories.
by Caitlin C. Rosenthal, Scott Berinato via Harvard Business Review on September 1, 2013

Slave Voyages

This digital memorial raises questions about the largest slave trades in history and offers access to the documentation available to answer them.
via Emory Libraries And Information Technology on December 15, 2008
Noel Ignatiev.
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Africans in America: Interview with Noel Ignatiev

On the of role white supremacist ideas in enforcing slavery in the U.S. in the 19th century.
via American Archive of Public Broadcasting on January 1, 1998
Salmon P. Chase

Who Owns the Founding? Akhil Reed Amar’s "Born Equal: Remaking America's Constitution"

Politics keeps refighting the Founding: Amar says liberals inherit originalism, but that tale smooths 19th-century contradictions.
by Ahmed Ahmed via Liberal Currents on February 3, 2026
Museum visitors at the National Memorial for Peace and Justice.

Those Who Try to Erase History Will Fail

Montgomery shows what’s possible when museums aren’t subject to capricious executive orders.
by Clint Smith via The Atlantic on January 19, 2026
Sketch of Samuel Green.

Samuel Green Freed Himself and Others From Slavery. Then He Was Imprisoned Over Owning a Book

He covertly assisted conductors on the Underground Railroad, but it was his possession of “Uncle Tom’s Cabin” turned that him into an abolitionist hero.
by Victor Luckerson via Smithsonian Magazine on January 14, 2026
A hand-colored map of lower Manhattan from 1860.

The Time When New York City Seriously Considered Seceding From the United States

A culture clash driven by finances and Old World alignments had the Big Apple contemplating leaving the Union. The Civil War ended that.
by Colin Woodard via Smithsonian Magazine on January 12, 2026
A typical sugar plantation in the 18th century, engraved by Robert Bénard.

How Reason Cultivated Abstraction: The Plantation Roots of Economic Modernity

Exploring the non-human markers of colonial expansion and the emergence of modern capitalism through sugar plants and plantation landscapes.
by Facundo Rocca via Journal of the History of Ideas Blog on January 12, 2026
Illustration of a slave rebellion.

The New History of Fighting Slavery

What we learn by tracing rebellions from Africa to the Americas.
by Laurent Dubois via The Atlantic on January 6, 2026
A fiber art piece depicting the Mason-Dixon line.

The Most Rancorous Line

How did the Mason–Dixon Line—meant to resolve a longstanding colonial border dispute—come to represent the US’s foundational divide between slavery and freedom?
by Nicholas Guyatt via New York Review of Books on December 25, 2025
Benjamin Franklin reading a draft of the Declaration of Independence.

The Evolution of the American Declaration of Independence

The Declaration drew on Enlightenment ideas to assert equality, justify independence, and inspire lasting debates over rights and slavery.
by Jane Sinden Spiegel via Journal of the American Revolution on December 18, 2025
A jury box in a courtroom.
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Does a Jury Need to Have 12 Members?

Why jury size matters.
by Wanling Su via Made By History on December 17, 2025
William Goodell in a suit.

William Goodell and the Science of Human Rights

William Goodell was praised by Frederick Douglass for being among the most important opponents of slavery in his time.
by Steve Gowler via Jacobin on December 7, 2025
A port city in the 1600s.

Sven Beckert’s Chronicle of Capitalism’s Long Rise

Capitalism is a global economic system, so a proper chronicle of its rise to dominance has to examine the entire world.
by Nelson Lichtenstein via Jacobin on December 4, 2025
A report for the Maryland Board of Claims in 1864.

Compensated Emancipation in Maryland During the Civil War

How promises of compensation for Black enlistment helped push Maryland toward ending slavery.
by Amanda Kleintop via Muster on December 4, 2025
Children eating Thanksgiving dinner in Harlem.

Make Thanksgiving Radical Again

The holiday’s real roots lie in abolition, liberation, and anti-racism. Let’s reconnect to that legacy.
by Kali Holloway via The Nation on November 27, 2025
Black women at an abolitionist meeting, from the book cover of "Dissenting Forces"
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Disruptive to Society

In the 1830s, college students protested slavery. Many colleges and elites wanted them to stop. 
by Michael E. Jirik via HNN on November 25, 2025
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