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What If Reconstruction Didn’t End Till 1920?
Historian Manisha Sinha argues that the Second Republic lasted decades longer than most histories state and achieved wider gains.
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Eric Herschthal
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The New Republic
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June 11, 2024
Harriet Tubman and the Most Important, Understudied Battle of the Civil War
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.
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Eric Herschthal
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The New Republic
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February 23, 2024
Grappling With the Overthrow of Reconstruction
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.
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Eric Herschthal
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The New Republic
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March 23, 2023
How the Right Turned “Freedom” Into a Dog Whistle
A new book traces the long history of cloaking racism in the language of resistance to an overbearing federal government.
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Eric Herschthal
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The New Republic
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December 8, 2022
A Reckoning With How Slavery Ended
A new book examines the ways white slaveholders were compensated, while formerly enslaved people were not.
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Eric Herschthal
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The New Republic
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April 15, 2022
The Storm Over the American Revolution
Why has a relatively conventional history of the War of Independence drawn such an outraged response?
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Eric Herschthal
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The New Republic
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November 18, 2021
The Fate of Confederate Monuments Should Be Clear
We know why they were built and why they have to come down.
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Eric Herschthal
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The New Republic
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August 9, 2021
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Black Americans Have Always Understood Science as a Tool in Their Freedom Struggle
Fixating on Black vaccine skepticism obscures a rich history of Black medical and scientific innovation.
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Eric Herschthal
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Made by History
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May 18, 2021
An Early Case For Reparations
Two new books tell the stories of people kidnapped and sold into slavery. One of them sued successfully.
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Eric Herschthal
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The New Republic
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October 16, 2019
Why Trump Could Pardon Jack Johnson When Obama Wouldn’t
On the white privilege of being able to ignore the racial context of Johnson's Jim Crow-era conviction.
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Eric Herschthal
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New York Review of Books
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June 13, 2018
The Making of an Antislavery President
Fred Kaplan's new book asks why it took Abraham Lincoln so long to embrace emancipation.
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Eric Herschthal
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The New Republic
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June 23, 2017