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Conservatives Say We've Abandoned Reason and Civility. The Old South Said That, Too

The ‘reasonable’ right’s persecution rhetoric echoes the Confederacy’s defense of slavery.
by Eve Fairbanks via Washington Post on August 29, 2019

From the Battlefield to 'Little Women'

How Louisa May Alcott found a niche in observing the world around her.
by Jennifer Wilson via New York Review of Books on August 28, 2019
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The Civil War and the Black West

On the integrated Union regiments composed of white, black, and native men who fought in the Civil War's western theatre.
by William Loren Katz via HNN on August 18, 2019

What P.T. Barnum Understood About America

Barnum called himself the “Prince of Humbugs,” which left open the possibility that one day there would arise a king.
by Elizabeth Kolbert via The New Yorker on July 29, 2019
Engraving of Harriet Beecher Stowe in profile.

How the Camera Introduced Americans to Their Heroines

A new show at the National Portrait Gallery spotlights figures including Harriet Beecher Stowe, Lucretia Mott and Margaret Fuller.
by Meilan Solly via Smithsonian on July 9, 2019
Josiah Henson

Before ‘Uncle Tom’ Was a Bestseller, He Was Josiah Henson

Born into slavery, this preacher and Underground Railroad conductor served as the inspiration for a history-making book.
by Jared Brock via Christianity Today on June 10, 2019

The Push to Remove Any Mention of Slavery From Vermont’s Constitution

The state prides itself on its abolitionist history. But its identity has been shaken by recent racist incidents.
by Parker Richards via The Atlantic on June 1, 2019
Enslaved people being baptized.

'Christian Slavery: Conversion and Race in the Protestant Atlantic World'

A Q&A with author Katharine Gerbner about "Protestant Supremacy."
by Katharine Gerbner, Casey Schmitt via The Junto on April 19, 2019

The Cautionary Patriotism of the Presidents Adams

Father and son alike, suspicious of too much charisma.
by Nancy Isenberg, Andrew Burstein via Literary Hub on April 18, 2019
Portrait photograph of Harriet Jacobs as an older woman

Incidents in the Life of Harriet Jacobs

A virtual tour of "Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl."
by Elizabeth Della Zazzera via Lapham’s Quarterly on April 15, 2019

How Women Got the Vote Is a Far More Complex Story Than the History Textbooks Reveal

An immersive story about the bold women who helped secure the right to vote is on view at the National Portrait Gallery.
by Alicia Ault via Smithsonian on April 9, 2019
A political cartoon of Carrie Nation in a destroyed bar

Why Do We Blame Women For Prohibition?

One hundred years later, it’s time to challenge a long-held bias.
by Mark Lawrence Schrad via Politico Magazine on January 13, 2019

The Electoral Politics of "Migrant Caravans"

To alleviate voters' fears during the Civil War, Northern governors refused to open their states to formerly enslaved refugees.
by Amy Murrell Taylor via Muster on December 18, 2018
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Stop Worrying About a Second Civil War

Predictions of society coming undone reflect deep anxieties over the divisions roiling the country, but these professed fears about our future actually provide hope.
by Jason Phillips via Made By History on October 12, 2018

Story of Paris Hill Man Connects Maine to ‘Complexities’ of Slave Trade

Torn from his family in Africa, Pedro Tovookan Parris spent the last years of his short life in rural Maine.
by Kelley Bouchard via Press Herald on July 15, 2018
Abolitionist political cartoon depicting the devil telling a slaveholder he is sinning.

How Antebellum Christians Justified Slavery

In the minds of some Southern Protestants, slavery had been divinely sanctioned.
by Elizabeth L. Jemison, Matthew Wills via JSTOR Daily on June 27, 2018
Women's liberation movement demonstrating in Washington D.C.

The Waves of Feminism, and Why People Keep Fighting Over Them, Explained

If you have no idea which wave of feminism we’re in right now, read this.
by Constance Grady via Vox on March 20, 2018

When Emancipation Finally Came, Slave Markets Took on a Redemptive Purpose

During the Civil War, slave pens held captive Confederate soldiers. After, they became rallying points for a newly empowered community.
by Jonathan W. White via Smithsonian on February 26, 2018
Millard Filmore.
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Remembering the Sins of Millard Fillmore

A little-remembered president's most notorious act.
by Carole Emberton via Made By History on January 5, 2018

Two Hundred Years on the Erie Canal

A digital exhibit on the history and legacy of the canal.
by Heidi Zimmer, Dan Ward via Digital Public Library of America on January 1, 2018

Sanctuary Syllabus

Inspired by Trump's election and his anti-immigrant policies, a group of scholars compiled this collection on the idea of "sanctuary."
by Paula Chakravartty, Yoav Halperin, Monica Kim, Rachel Kuo, Molly Nolan, Sonya Posmentier, Sarah Sklaw, Shivani Srivastav via Public Books on December 5, 2017
Robert E. Lee statue
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Robert E. Lee WAS a Man of Honor. That’s the Problem.

For white southerners, honor had little to do with justice.
by Kevin Waite via Made By History on November 7, 2017
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The North Tried Compromise. The South Chose War.

The South's insistence upon protecting and spreading slavery caused the Civil War.
by Carole Emberton via Made By History on November 1, 2017

Lincoln: The Great Uncompromiser

He fought to remake the center—not yield to it.
by Matthew Karp via The Nation on October 25, 2017

Is the American Idea Doomed?

Not yet—but it has precious few supporters on either the left or the right.
by Yoni Appelbaum via The Atlantic on October 18, 2017

Women's Suffrage @100

We date the expansion of voting rights to women in 1920, but the real story is a lot more complex.
by Linda Gordon via Public Books on September 22, 2017

The Alamo: The First and Last Confederate Monument?

The Alamo supposedly honors the courage of Anglos pitted against Mexican brutality. In fact, it is about slavery and emancipation.
by Jorge Cañizares-Esguerra via Arcade on September 18, 2017
Violence during the "Unite the Right" rally in Charlottesville on August 12, 2017.

America's Deadly Divide - and Why it Has Returned

Civil War historian David Blight reflects on America’s Disunion – then and now.
by David W. Blight via The Guardian on August 20, 2017

'The Fatal Deadfall of Abolition'

Threatening the newly-freed Southern slaves.
by John F. Ptak via JF Ptak Science Books on July 31, 2017

New Age Activism: Maria W. Stewart and Black Lives Matter

Black women have always been equal partners in, if not central to, the tradition of Black protest and liberation movements.
by Westenley Alcenat via Black Perspectives on July 24, 2017
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