slavery myths

"If you read enough sources, you run into cases of slaves spending a lot of time over Christmas crying."

Her memoirs contribute to the inaccurate post-Civil War memory of the Southern plantation.

To our surprise, most received a well-rounded education on the history of Black people in America. Just kidding.

State leaders went to great lengths to instill their gauzy version of the Lost Cause in young minds.

No, the Civil War didn’t end slavery, and the first Africans didn’t arrive in America in 1619.

As we debate reparations, we need to get the facts right.

His condemnation of enslaved people’s failure to rebel is drawn from a dangerous ideology that’s older than the United States.

Statues don’t need to venerate military leaders of the Civil War to promulgate false narratives.

How Alex Tizon’s essay echoes a trope with deep roots in American history

The kindness of masters is meaningless in the context of a hereditary chattel system that turned humans into property.

The Irish were slaves too; slaves had it better than factory workvers; black people fought for the Confederacy; and so on.

The “historian general” of the United Daughters of the Confederacy began the battle over the depiction of the South in history textbooks that continues today.

Ron DeSantis wants to retrofit history to conform to conservative ideology.

And justified the most extreme responses.

Exploring recent debates about the uses–and utility–of Black history in both the academic and public spheres.

The Florida governor’s long-ignored 2011 work, "Dreams From Our Founding Fathers," reveals a distinct vision of American history.

Louis Fatio seized an opportunity to recount his version of his life—a story that had been distorted and used by white Americans for various political purposes.

A new book traces how the writing of American history, from Reconstruction on, has falsified and illuminated our racial past.

The legislature established a committee last year to “promote patriotic education.” Drafts of one of its pamphlets reveal an effort to sanitize history.

Historian Barbara J. Fields explains why you can't understand what happened in 1619 without understanding what happened in 1607.