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The plough, the loom and the anvil book drawing

In the Common Interest

How a grassroots movement of farmers laid the foundation for state intervention in the economy, challenging the slaveholding South.
by Nic Johnson, Chris Hong, Robert Manduca via Boston Review on May 18, 2021
A Black family in Savannah, GA.

The “Families’ Cause” in the Post-Civil War Era

While focusing on refuting the Lost Cause narrative, many historians forget to memorialize Black Americans in the post Civil War period.
by Holly A. Pinheiro Jr. via Black Perspectives on March 24, 2021
John C. Calhoun

American Heretic, American Burke

A review of Robert Elder's new biography of John C. Calhoun.
by Allen C. Guelzo via The New Criterion on February 4, 2021
The Battle of Fort Sumter.
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How the Civil War Got Its Name

From "insurrection" to "rebellion" to "Civil War," finding a name for the conflict was always political.
by Gaines M. Foster, Livia Gershon via JSTOR Daily on January 15, 2021

Minority Rule Cannot Last in America

It never has.
by Kenneth Owen via The Atlantic on December 2, 2020
A map of Mexico.

When the Enslaved Went South

How Mexico—and the fugitives who went there—helped make freedom possible in America.
by Alice L. Baumgartner via The New Yorker on November 19, 2020
Confederate soldiers on horses on a golf course

What’s in a Name? For Some Clubs in the South, Uneasy Ties to the Confederacy.

Golf clubs named after Confederate generals are attracting new scrutiny.
by Tom Cunneff via Golf Digest on September 30, 2020
Drawing of people picking cotton at a plantation

A Few Random Thoughts on Capitalism and Slavery

Historian James Oakes offers a critique of the New History of Capitalism.
by James Oakes via The Economic Historian on September 28, 2020

The Problem in the Classroom

Any true reckoning with racism must include our schools.
by Jon Hale via The American Scholar on July 30, 2020
People raising their fists and gathered around the Robert E. Lee Memorial in Richmond, Virginia

Europe in 1989, America in 2020, and the Death of the Lost Cause

A whole vision of history seems to be leaving the stage.
by David W. Blight via The New Yorker on July 1, 2020

The Confederates Loved America, and They’re Still Defining What Patriotism Means

The ideology of the men who celebrated the United States while fighting for its dissolution is still very much alive.
by Richard Kreitner via The New Republic on June 30, 2020
Gateway Arch in St. Louis.
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The West Is Relevant to Our Long History of Anti-Blackness, Not Just the South

Revisiting the Missouri Compromise should transform how we think about white American expansion.
by Walter Johnson via Made By History on May 17, 2020

Trump and Lincoln Are Opposite Kinds of Presidents

History is not kind to those who divide and dither.
by Francis Wilkinson via Bloomberg on May 3, 2020
Portrait of John Brown beside the American flag, c.1846.
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America, Lost and Found at Wounded Knee

Stephen Vincent Benét’s lost epic “John Brown’s Body” envisions a nation sutured together after the Civil War, but fails to reckon with the war’s causes.
by Ed Simon, Frederick H. Jackson, Donald M. Foerster via JSTOR Daily on April 29, 2020

Sorry, New York Times, But America Began in 1776

The United States didn't begin in 1619.
by Wilfred Reilly via Quillette on February 17, 2020

Five Myths About Slavery

No, the Civil War didn’t end slavery, and the first Africans didn’t arrive in America in 1619.
by Daina Ramey Berry, Talitha L. LeFlouria via Washington Post on February 7, 2020

The Hidden Stakes of the 1619 Controversy

Critics of the New York Times’s 1619 Project obscure a longstanding debate among historians over whether the American Revolution was a proslavery revolt.
by David Waldstreicher via Boston Review on January 24, 2020

The Original Southerners

American Indians, the Civil War, and Confederate memory.
by Malinda Maynor Lowery via Southern Cultures on November 27, 2019

How to Forget

A review of Lewis Hyde’s “A Primer for Forgetting: Getting Past the Past.”
by Sebastian Stockman via Los Angeles Review of Books on October 14, 2019
Statue of Ulysses Grant

Moral Courage and the Civil War

Monuments ask us to look at the past, but how they do it exposes crucial aspects of the present.
by Elizabeth D. Samet via The American Scholar on September 3, 2019

How Slavery Shaped American Capitalism

The New York Times is right that slavery made a major contribution to capitalist development in the United States — just not in the way they imagine.
by John Clegg via Jacobin on August 28, 2019
Martin Luther King Jr. criticizes the Vietnam war at a speech at University of Minnesota in 1967.
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Centrism and Moderation? No Thanks.

In times of moral crisis, everyone picks a side — even those proclaiming neutrality.
by April Holm via Made By History on February 27, 2019

The Costs of the Confederacy

In the last decade, taxpayers have spent at least $40 million on Confederate monuments and groups that perpetuate racist ideology.
by Brian Palmer, Seth Freed Wessler via Smithsonian on November 28, 2018
Man cheering at a political rally while wearing a Trump sticker on his cheesehead hat.

'Tribalism’ Doesn’t Explain Our Political Conflicts

We should look to history – not prehistory – to understand current political challenges.
by Adam Rothman via Washington Post on November 14, 2018

Prophets of War

Telegraph operators were the first to know news of the Civil War.
by Jason Phillips via Lapham’s Quarterly on October 23, 2018

America Descends Into the Politics of Rage

Trump and other peddlers of angry rhetoric may reap short-term gains, but history suggests they will provoke a fearsome backlash.
by Joanne B. Freeman via The Atlantic on October 22, 2018

Not Even Trump Wants to Praise Robert E. Lee

Most of President Donald Trump's 20th-century predecessors expressed profound admiration for Confederate general Robert E. Lee.
by Yoni Appelbaum via The Atlantic on October 15, 2018
Drawing of the caning of Sumner.

Raising Cane

The violence on Capitol Hill that foreshadowed a bloody war.
by Joanne B. Freeman via Lapham’s Quarterly on September 15, 2018

The Struggle Over the Meaning of the 14th Amendment Continues

The fight over the 150-year old language in the Constitution is a battle for the very heart of the American republic.
by Garrett Epps via The Atlantic on July 10, 2018

The Compensated Emancipation Act of 1862

While a far cry from full emancipation, it was an important step towards the abolition of slavery.
by Jessica Parr via We're History on April 16, 2018
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