Frederick Douglass

Widening the lens to capitalism itself could yield insights on how to close the gap.

Rich Benjamin’s new book reveals a shared spirit between the world’s first Black republic and the United States.

Does the text mean what it plainly says?

After the Civil War, Andrew Johnson issued the biggest act of presidential clemency in our history. It angered his party and led to his eventual impeachment.

The week between Christmas and the new year offered a rare opportunity for enslaved people to reclaim their humanity.

To understand discourse around “Christian nationalism,” look no further than the abolitionist hailed by many on the left.

"Published by the Author" explores the resourcefulness of Black writers of the nineteenth century.

Rankin's 'Letters on American Slavery' set out a moral argument for abolition that resonated across the nation.

A liberalism that divides humanity into a master class and a slave class deserves an asterisk as “white liberalism.”

On the 1860 Republican National Convention in Chicago.

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.