Eric Herschthal

Edda L. Fields-Black sets out to restore the Combahee River Raid to its proper place in Tubman’s life and in the war on slavery.

Two new books ask us to shift our attention away from the white vigilantes of Jim Crow and instead focus on what it meant for the survivors.

A new book traces the long history of cloaking racism in the language of resistance to an overbearing federal government.

A new book examines the ways white slaveholders were compensated, while formerly enslaved people were not.

Why has a relatively conventional history of the War of Independence drawn such an outraged response?

We know why they were built and why they have to come down.

Fixating on Black vaccine skepticism obscures a rich history of Black medical and scientific innovation.

On the white privilege of being able to ignore the racial context of Johnson's Jim Crow-era conviction.

Fred Kaplan's new book asks why it took Abraham Lincoln so long to embrace emancipation.