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Somewhere Toward Freedom: Sherman's March and the Story of America's Largest Emancipation

Somewhere Toward Freedom: Sherman's March and the Story of America's Largest Emancipation

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Drawings of refugees arriving at Fort Monroe.

Expect Freedom Upon Arrival

On the slow path to federal action on emancipation during the Civil War.

by Bennett Parten via HNN on January 22, 2025

Drawing of Abraham Lincoln as a guest at Ann Spriggs' Washington, D.C. boarding house, 1906.

The D.C. Boarding House That Moved the Needle on Slavery

Where abolitionists and congressmen—including Lincoln—dined, debated, and became bedfellows.

by Bennett Parten via Zócalo Public Square on July 31, 2023

Cover of "Vigilance: The Life of William Still, Father of the Underground Railroad" by Andrew K. Diemer

A Historian Forgotten

A new biography of William Still show how the abolitionist documented the underground railroad as he helped people through it.

by Bennett Parten via Los Angeles Review of Books on May 7, 2023

Photograph of Sam Chamberlain

Crossing the Blood Meridian: Cormac McCarthy and American History

McCarthy imagined a vast border region where colonial empires clashed, tribes went to war, and bounty hunters roamed.

by Bennett Parten via Los Angeles Review of Books on February 9, 2022

Man holding poster at U.S. Capitol Riot

The Paranoid Style: Rereading Richard Hofstadter in the Aftermath of January 6

How a book of essays from 1964 explains what happened at the Capitol.

by Bennett Parten via Los Angeles Review of Books on July 13, 2021

Illustration of the assassination of president Lincoln in Ford's Theatre

We Lionize Abraham Lincoln – But John Wilkes Booth Still Embodies a Part of America’s Soul

How the insurrection on January 6th brought a legendary assassin back to life.

by Bennett Parten via Public Seminar on March 18, 2021

The World’s Human Rights Convention and the Paradox of American Abolitionism

An inquiry into a utopian vision of abolitionism.

by Bennett Parten via Journal of the History of Ideas Blog on July 29, 2020

A man plowing with a mule

Revisiting “Forty Acres and a Mule”

The backstory to the backstory of America’s mythic promise.

by Bennett Parten via We're History on June 15, 2020

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