David W. Blight

How today's protests are struggling to reclaim the vision of the great abolitionist leader.

The Great Toppling of 2020 and the rebirth of civic imagination.

In a newly discovered letter, the famed abolitionist wrote that ‘no one monument could be made to tell the whole truth'

What would it mean to define the Civil War as a necessary and crucial final step in the long, even more tragic history of slavery in America?

Be Woke presents Black History in two minutes (or so).

Why did a predominantly black district have streets named after Southern generals? In Hollywood, Florida, one man thought it was time for change.

Never-before-transcribed articles from Frederick Douglass’ Paper denounce capitalism and economic inequality.

A dispute between some scholars and the authors of NYT Magazine’s issue on slavery represents a fundamental disagreement over the trajectory of U.S. society.

The historical interpretations crafted by the men of the Dunning School might now be largely discredited and discarded. But their legacies remain.

During Reconstruction, true citizenship finally seemed in reach for black Americans. Then their dreams were dismantled.

Slavery and the legacy of white supremacy.

He “put the history of slavery at the center of our understanding of American history.”

It’s the 200th anniversary of Frederick Douglass’s birth, and some on the right have been crashing the party.

How the state’s past spurred a racial reckoning.

Tearing down monuments is only the beginning to understanding the false narrative of Jim Crow.

The recent unrest in Charlottesville, Virginia, after a white-supremacist rally has stoked some Americans’ fears of a new civil war.

The history of Atlanta's first Civil War monument may reveal how to deal with them in the present.

The legend of the Confederate leader’s heroism and decency is based in the fiction of a person who never existed.

The emancipation of black Americans has been written out of our celebration of the Civil War's end.

“There has never been an honest movie about the civil rights movement,” says civil rights leader Julian Bond.