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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
American and French soldiers at the siege of Yorktown, by Jean-Baptiste-Antoine DeVerger, 1781.

Patriot Acts

What Ken Burns gets wrong about the war that made America.
by Andrew Lawler via The American Scholar on November 24, 2025
William Lloyd Garrison.

From William Lloyd Garrison to Tolstoy, Gandhi, and Martin Luther King Jr.

There has been a long history of nonviolent resistance in the United States, from William Lloyd Garrison to Martin Luther King Jr.
by Bennett Parten via Public Seminar on November 18, 2025
Illustration by Anna Ruch, featuring founder Thomas Jefferson.

Tell Students the Truth About American History

We owe it to Americans of all ages to be honest about the country’s past, including its contradictions.
by Clint Smith via The Atlantic on November 16, 2025
Drawing of Yale University, from likely the 17th century.

Reckoning With Yale’s Ties to Slavery

An institutional history of the “peculiar institution.”
by James Steichen via The Chronicle of Higher Education on November 14, 2025
The Memorial to Enslaved Laborers at the University of Virginia.

A Free Black Woman, a Memorial to Enslaved Laborers, and the Battle Over U.S. History

How Charlottesville’s memorial landscape can help us understand — and combat — the White House’s violent plans to reshape the nation’s public spaces.
by Mabel O. Wilson via Hammer & Hope on October 31, 2025
'A slave auction at the South' by Theodore R. Davis, from Harper’s Weekly, July 1861

Speculation in Human Property

The survival of slave trading during the Civil War suggests that enslaved people remained valuable commodities in a time of economic upheaval.
by James Oakes via New York Review of Books on October 30, 2025
Sliced and shifted John Trumbull painting of the signing of the Declaration of Independence.

America’s Founding Fathers Had No Faith in Democracy

On the inherent contradictions behind the American revolutionary dream.
by Joseph Ellis via Literary Hub on October 28, 2025
Abraham Lincoln.

Abraham Lincoln’s 1859 Lesson for Some 2028 Democrat

There are parallels between the John Brown raid and the murder of Charlie Kirk. But only one man seized the moment to start changing the course of history.
by Sidney Blumenthal via The New Republic on October 20, 2025
A mule carrying packs sits defiantly, while one man pushes, another pulls, and a third cracks a whip.

Mule Power

Unpacking empires and diaspora in Mexico and the United States.
by Jayson Maurice Porter via Distillations on October 16, 2025
George Washington portrait in which he rests his hand on his hip.

A Great Reputation Among Men: Race and Contested Masculinities in the Early American Republic

A Quaker abolitionist hoped to convince the Virginian Founders to end slavery by appealing to their sense of manhood. They were not persuaded.
by Kathleen Telling via Age of Revolutions on October 13, 2025
Illustration by Matt Huynh.

What Is Colonial Williamsburg For?

Telling the full story of the town’s past is an easy way to make a lot of people mad.
by Clint Smith via The Atlantic on October 10, 2025
Lincoln, Washington, and a snippet from a lyceum address.

The Lincoln Way

How he used America’s past to rescue its future.
by Jake Lundberg via The Atlantic on October 10, 2025
John Brown stands armed, positioned before Union and Confederate people fighting amid smoke and devastation.

Why Donald Trump Wants to Erase John Brown’s Fiery Abolitionist Legacy (and Why He Will Fail)

Reflections on Harper's Ferry amid a government shutdown.
by Robert S. Levine via Literary Hub on October 10, 2025
Collage illustration of a founder, Declaration of Independence, and the body of an enslaved person whose arms are in chains.

Whose Independence?

The question of what Jefferson meant by “all men” has defined American law and politics for too long.
by Annette Gordon-Reed via The Atlantic on October 9, 2025
British flag with writing that says, "Liberty for Slaves."

The Black Loyalists

Thousands of African Americans fought for the British—then fled the United States to avoid a return to enslavement.
by Andrew Lawler via The Atlantic on October 8, 2025
Federal encampment on Cumberland Landing, Virginia.
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How the Union Lost the Remembrance War

The victors of the American Civil War failed to write their story into the history books, leaving a gap for the mythologizing of the Confederacy.
by Matthew Wills, Robert J. Cook via JSTOR Daily on October 5, 2025
Apples on a branch of an apple tree.

To Understand America, Look to the Everyday Apple

The country is losing neighbourhood orchards—and a connection to its origins.
by Priyanka Kumar via The Walrus on September 27, 2025
Ruins of Mrs. Henry’s House, Battlefield of Bull Run.
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Reactionary Revolutionaries

In the mid-19th century, governments on both sides of the U.S.-Mexico border set out to recast North America’s political landscape.
by Erika Pani via HNN on September 23, 2025
A person white washing over a Texan Independence exhibit.

Texas’ Official History Museum Hides More Than It Shows

The Bullock Museum glorifies Texas heroes while treating slavery like an awkward uncle no one wants to talk about.
by Brian Gaar via The Barbed Wire on September 11, 2025
"Home in the Woods," an 1847 painting by Thomas Cole.

A Republican Excursion

As a new book on their travels together shows, Thomas Jefferson and James Madison's friendship went beyond politics.
by Kevin R. C. Gutzman via Law & Liberty on September 2, 2025
The 1893 World's Fair.
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A Ghost from Kitchens Across the Nation

The 1893 World’s Fair and the origins of Aunt Jemima.
by Lindsey Stewart via HNN on July 29, 2025
Buildings drawing and black and white negative, on the cover of "Yale and Slavery."

What Universities Owe

David Blight's report "Yale and Slavery" considers institutional accountability in the context of a world marked by systemic violence and inequality.
by Vincent Brown via London Review of Books on July 24, 2025
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