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How Abraham Lincoln Fought the Supreme Court

As Lincoln recognized, it's not enough to question the decisions, justices, or even the structure of the Court. We need to challenge the foundation of its power.
by Matthew Karp via Jacobin on September 19, 2020

Trump Calls for More Patriotic Education

The president has blamed schools for spurring the unrest in several U.S. cities that has led in some cases to looting and fires.
by Laura Meckler, Moriah Balingit via Retropolis on September 17, 2020
Photograph of Robert E. Lee standing alone in front of a door.

The Mystery of Robert E. Lee

He prized self-control above all, but did not always achieve it.
by Allen C. Guelzo via National Review on September 17, 2020

The Revolutionary Thoreau

Generations of readers have chosen to emphasize Thoreau's spiritual communion with Nature, but Walden begins with trenchant critique of “progress.”
by R. H. Lossin via New York Review of Books on September 4, 2020
Diorama of Benjamin Banneker surveying the area around the White House

Art of History: Preserving African American Dioramas

Conservators are restoring a series of dioramas created for the 1940 American Negro Exposition, bringing their magical artistry, and stories, back to life.
by Robbyn McFadden via CBS News on August 30, 2020

The Douglass Republic

How today's protests are struggling to reclaim the vision of the great abolitionist leader.
by Jabari Asim via The New Republic on August 14, 2020
Fugitive slaves riding on horseback.

The Black Collectors Who Championed African-American Art during the U.S. Civil War

Dorsey and Thomas amassed important collections at a time when the future of chattel slavery and Black life hung in the balance of a national quarrel.
by Jordan McDonald via Artsy on August 11, 2020
Black Lives Matter demonstrators.
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A Long-Forgotten Holiday Animates Black Lives Matter

The movement for racial equality echoes the vision of the “August First Day” holiday.
by Tom Zoellner via Made By History on July 31, 2020

The Problem in the Classroom

Any true reckoning with racism must include our schools.
by Jon Hale via The American Scholar on July 30, 2020

Racist Litter

A review of Eric Foner's The Second Founding.
by Randall Kennedy via London Review of Books on July 30, 2020
Illustration of a bald eagle menacing a black parent and child in front of what appears to be a government building

Circulating the Facts of Slavery

How the American Anti-Slavery Almanac became an influential best seller.
by Teresa A. Goddu via Lapham’s Quarterly on July 28, 2020

Lincoln’s Paramilitaries, the “Wide Awakes,” Helped Bring About a Political Revolution

In 1860, a novel paramilitary-style organization mobilized hundreds of thousands against the Southern planter class.
by Matthew E. Stanley via Jacobin on July 11, 2020
An outline of the United States filled with black figures who are outlined by a continuous white line.

"Other": A Brief History of American Xenophobia

The United States often touts itself as a "nation of immigrants," but this obscures the real story.
via Densho: Japanese American Incarceration and Japanese Internment on July 11, 2020
A portrait of David Ruggles, who opened the first black-owned bookstore in America, between two white men.
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The First Black-Owned Bookstore and the Fight for Freedom

Black abolitionist David Ruggles opened the first Black-owned bookstore in 1834, pointing the way to freedom—in more ways than one.
by Vickie Cox Edmondson, Dorothy B. Porter, Ashawnta Jackson, Archie B. Caroll via JSTOR Daily on July 10, 2020
A drawing of the National Emancipation Monument.

The Statue That Never Was

How a monument that championed black sacrifice in the name of emancipation was forgotten.
by Elizabeth R. Varon via Nau Center For Civil War History on July 6, 2020
People raising their fists and gathered around the Robert E. Lee Memorial in Richmond, Virginia

Europe in 1989, America in 2020, and the Death of the Lost Cause

A whole vision of history seems to be leaving the stage.
by David W. Blight via The New Yorker on July 1, 2020

The True Story of the Freed Slave Kneeling at Lincoln’s Feet

The Emancipation Memorial in Washington, D.C., has become a flashpoint in today’s reckoning with racist statues.
by Laurie Maffly-Kipp via The New Republic on July 1, 2020

The Confederates Loved America, and They’re Still Defining What Patriotism Means

The ideology of the men who celebrated the United States while fighting for its dissolution is still very much alive.
by Richard Kreitner via The New Republic on June 30, 2020
Emancipation Memorial seen through fence grating

What Frederick Douglass Had to Say About Monuments

In a newly discovered letter, the famed abolitionist wrote that ‘no one monument could be made to tell the whole truth'
by Jonathan W. White, Scott Sandage via Smithsonian on June 30, 2020
Cover of the book These Truths by Jill Lepore.

Only Dead Metaphors Can Be Resurrected

Historical narratives of the United States have never not been shaped by an anxiety about the end of it all. Are we a new Rome or a new Zion?
by George Blaustein via European Journal Of American Studies on June 30, 2020
Two statues next to each other

Confederates in the Capitol

The National Statuary Collection announced the unification of the former slave economy’s emotional heartland with the heart of national government.
by William Hogeland via Boston Review on June 29, 2020
A man walking by graffiti on a white wall that reads "Why do we have to keep telling you black lives matter?"

What the Protesters Tagging Historic Sites Get Right About the Past

Places of memory up and down the East Coast also witnessed acts of resistance and oppression.
by Lindsay M. Chervinsky via Smithsonian on June 26, 2020
Toppled Howitzers Monument in Richmond, VA

American Oligarchy

A review of "How the South Won the Civil War: Oligarchy, Democracy, and the Continuing Fight for the Soul of America."
by Nicholas Misukanis via Commonweal on June 23, 2020
A close-up of an African-American woman's face and hair

On Liberating the History of Black Hair

Emma Dabiri deconstructs colonial ideas of Blackness.
by Emma Dabiri via Literary Hub on June 23, 2020

America’s Long War on Children and Families

Trump’s family separation policy belongs to a much longer history of U.S. government forces taking children from families that don't match the American ideal.
by Paul M. Renfro via Boston Review on June 22, 2020

Growing Up with Juneteenth

How a Texan holiday became a national tradition.
by Annette Gordon-Reed via The New Yorker on June 19, 2020

The Living History of Juneteenth, Our Next National Holiday

A celebration of emancipation in Texas is taking hold in the minds of Americans everywhere.
by Brandon R. Byrd via GQ on June 19, 2020

Juneteenth And National New Beginnings

The holiday is a reminder of the Civil War's larger meaning, the unfulfilled promise of Reconstruction, and the reinforcement of democratic values.
by Tera W. Hunter via Essence on June 19, 2020
People standing in line at a detention center, watched by an enforcement officer.

America’s Long History of Imprisoning Children

Through slavery, Indian boarding schools, Japanese internment, mass incarceration, and anti-Communist wars against civilian populations in Latin America.
by Laura Briggs via Literary Hub on June 19, 2020
Five attendees singing at the 48th Annual Juneteenth Day Festival. The person in the middle has their fist raised.
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Juneteenth in the Alternative Press

Reports in the underground press demonstrate how Juneteenth has been celebrated as both a social and political gathering in the twentieth century.
via JSTOR Daily on June 18, 2020
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