Frederick Douglass

As a young woman, civil rights pioneer Pauli Murray discovered that the flag could be used as a symbol of defiance.

Recovering black radicalism.

The former president is suggesting that Harris became Black only when it was obvious that being Black conferred social advantage.

A new book explores the history of presidents who abused their constitutional power and the citizen movements that stopped them.

Despite its failures and limitations, the American Revolution unleashed popular aspirations to throw off tyranny of all kinds.

Myths to explain American history and chart a path to the future once helped to bind the country together. Today, they are absorbed into the culture wars.

A new book conveys in dramatic detail what America’s Moses did to help abolish slavery. Another addresses the love of God and country that helped her do so.

The story of how Harriet Tubman led 150 African American soldiers to rescue over 700 former slaves freed five months earlier by the Emancipation Proclamation.

How German Enlightenment thought influenced Abraham Lincoln.

Historian Manisha Sinha argues that the Second Republic lasted decades longer than most histories state and achieved wider gains.

On the fragile facade of republicanism in 19th century America.

Historian Robin Blackburn has completed a trilogy of books that provide a comprehensive Marxist account of slavery in the New World.

The untold story of the Wide Awakes, the young Americans who took up the torch for their antislavery cause and stirred the nation.

The text and historical context of the Constitution provide liberals with ample opportunities to advance their own vision of America.

In a circumscribed universe, Black Americans have ceaselessly reinvented themselves.

A groundbreaking new book demonstrates that even during the days of slavery, African Americans knew a lot more about legal principles than has been imagined.

In pre-Civil War Richmond, Black people were forced to literally pay for the mechanisms of white supremacy.

The African American perfectionists offered “faith” instead of “hope”—emphasizing the struggle to realize a vision of justice.

The significance of New Year’s Eve ‘watch night’ services for Black Americans.

The 1619 Project claimed to reveal the unknown history of slavery. It ended up helping to distort the real history of slavery and the struggle against it.