Christiana Resistance — Bunk History

How a Humble Stone Carries the Memory of an African American Uprising Against the Fugitive Slave Law

Stories about the past can help communities create an identity of which they can be proud. This was certainly the case at Christiana.

by James Delle via Zócalo Public Square on January 16, 2020

A fiber art piece depicting the Mason-Dixon line.

The Most Rancorous Line

How did the Mason–Dixon Line—meant to resolve a longstanding colonial border dispute—come to represent the US’s foundational divide between slavery and freedom?

by Nicholas Guyatt via New York Review of Books on December 25, 2025

Sketch of a gathering of African Americans gathering in a meetinghouse.

“Nativity Gives Citizenship”: Teaching Antislavery Constitutionalism Through Black Conventions

The demand of antislavery activists for accused fugitives to be guaranteed a jury trial was an implicit recognition of Black citizenship.

by Erik J. Chaput via Commonplace on March 7, 2023

1859 lynching of Harvey Braden and James Daley

Mapping the Rise of Extralegal Collective Killing in the United States, 1783-1865

A digital history project uses geospatial data to show how killing became a deliberate and communicative tool of extralegal mob violence.

by Patrick Hoehne via Journal of Digital History on April 14, 2022

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