Manisha Sinha

The movement finally gets the big, bold history it deserves.

Sinha enlarges the temporal boundaries students are accustomed to by covering the end of the 19th century into the Progressive era with the 19th Amendment.

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

For some time now, the answer has not been the abolitionists.

Why our understanding of the era has been hindered by the party system model.

Black-authored print was central to James G. Birney’s conversion from enslaver to abolitionist and presidential candidate.

For as long as Americans have been subjected to lousy candidates, they’ve been told to suck it up and vote for one of them.

With "Force and Freedom," Carter Jackson makes a stimulating and insightful debut which will have a major influence on abolition movement scholarship.

The Pennsylvanian was one of America’s greatest heroes. Why hasn’t he gotten his due?

This is the story of how a visit by Frederick Douglass to south-central Massachusetts, epitomizes the movement’s ability to spread in the region.

The Natchez USCT not only contributed to the war effort but was essential to establishing a post-war monument honoring President Lincoln and emancipation.

As Presidents' Day approaches, historians look back at the most notable recent uses and misuses of "the Great Emancipator's" words.

Contrary to the image of the kneeling slave, Black abolitionists did not wait passively for the "Day of Jubilee." They led the charge.

How did the struggle for emancipation become a mass politics?

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.

Preston Brooks, Greg Gianforte, and the American tradition of disguising cowardice as bravery.

Is 2016 worse than 1348? And 1836? And 1919?