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Gerald Horne

Bylines

How Hollywood’s Black Friday Strike Changed Labor Across America

A 1945 union vs. studios battle set off broad right-wing hysteria—its lessons should resonate today.

by Gerald Horne, Anthony Ballas via Zócalo Public Square on November 9, 2023
The Dialectician

The paradoxes of C.L.R. James.

by Gerald Horne via The Nation on April 18, 2023
W.E.B. Du Bois’s Abolition Democracy

The enduring legacy and capacious vision of Black Reconstruction.

by Gerald Horne via The Nation on May 3, 2022
Eric Williams and the Tangled History of Capitalism and Slavery

This historian and politician helped transform how several generations understood 18th- and 19th-century history.

by Gerald Horne via The Nation on October 5, 2021
New York City and the Persistence of the Atlantic Slave Trade

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

by Gerald Horne via The Nation on February 24, 2021

The Counter-Revolution of 1836: Texas Slavery & Jim Crow and the Roots of U. S. Fascism

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Henry Arthur McArdle’s The Battle of San Jacinto (1895), depicting the final battle of the Texas Revolution of 1836.

The Long American Counter-Revolution

Historian Gerald Horne has developed a grand theory of U.S. history as a series of devastating backlashes to progress—right down to the present day.

by David Waldstreicher via Boston Review on December 8, 2022

Revolution and Repression: A Framework for African American History

Running through all of historian Gerald Horne's books are the twin themes of revolution and repression.

by Brandon R. Byrd via Black Perspectives on August 21, 2018

The Hidden Stakes of the 1619 Controversy

Critics of the New York Times’s 1619 Project obscure a longstanding debate among historians over whether the American Revolution was a proslavery revolt.

by David Waldstreicher via Boston Review on January 24, 2020

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