Frederick Douglass

Thaddeus Stevens understood far better than most that fully uprooting slavery meant overthrowing the South’s economic system and challenging property rights.

Even after slave trade was banned, the United States and New York City, in particular, were complicit in allowing it to persist.

At the height of the Reconstruction, the pressing issue of the election was Black male suffrage.

The pervasive mythmaking about the supposed wisdom of the founders has covered up a central truth: the US Constitution is an antidemocratic mess.

The story of America can be told through the story of its periodicals.

His defiance changed baseball and helped assert Black people’s worth in American culture.

The Federal Writers’ Project narratives provide an all-too-rare link to our past.

To preserve Black history, a 19th-century archivist filled hundreds of scrapbooks with newspaper clippings and other materials.

Jacob Lawrence was one of twentieth-century America’s most celebrated black artists.

In a new book, the often under-appreciated contribution that black soldiers made during the civil war is brought to light with a trove of unseen photos.

From "insurrection" to "rebellion" to "Civil War," finding a name for the conflict was always political.

Jonathan W. Wilson offers a constructively critical review of Wilfred McClay's American history textbook "Land of Hope."

Delany's insistence on interest-based coalitions, evident in his fiction and political prose, explains his late-Reconstruction defection to the Democrats and his strategies for revolution.

Jefferson revised the Gospels to make Jesus more reasonable, and lost the power of his story.

Tens of thousands of mutual aid networks and projects emerged around the world in 2020. They have long been a tool for marginalized groups.

White women have trafficked in Black women’s milk.

Abraham Lincoln is widely revered, while many Americans consider John Brown mad. Yet it was Brown’s strategy that brought slavery to an end.

Elements of the Puritans’ unique worldview were handed down for generations and were carried westward by their descendants, the people we call Yankees.

‘Struggle: From the History of the American People’ charts the strife of early US history in a fierce Cubist/Expressionist style.

Before and during the Civil War, both enslavers and abolitionists used photography to garner support for their causes.