Matthew Desmond

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.

The study of poverty has flourished in recent decades. Why haven’t the lives of the poor improved?

“We could afford to end poverty,” Matthew Desmond tells us. That we don’t is a choice.

Nikole Hannah-Jones' new book sidesteps scholarly critics while quietly deleting previous factual errors.

It erases the fact that, for the first 70 years of its existence, the US was roiled by intense, escalating conflict over slavery – a conflict only resolved by civil war.

The New York Times is right that slavery made a major contribution to capitalist development in the United States — just not in the way they imagine.

The New York Times’ series on slavery relies on bad scholarship to make an argument with an inauspicious history.

The ambitious Times endeavor reveals the difficulties that greet a journalistic project when it aspires to shift a founding narrative of the past.

New books investigate the brutality of the internal slave trade by focusing on businesses, and examine the role of white women in enslaving Black people.

Climate change and the colonial legacy of fire suppression.

Historian James Oakes offers a critique of the New History of Capitalism.

The Editor of the American Historical Review weighs in on recent historiographical debates around the New York Times' 1619 Project.

A decade after the crash of 2008, a growing movement has thrust our prolonged housing crisis to the center of the national agenda.