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A photograph of enslaved laborers picking and carrying cotton in a field near Montgomery, Alabama.

Capitalism, Slavery, and Power over Price

The debate between historians and economists over the definition of capitalism, and the legacy of slavery in the structure of today's economy.
by Caitlin C. Rosenthal, Johnny Fulfer via The Economic Historian on August 3, 2020
Phillis Wheatley

How Phillis Wheatley Was Recovered Through History

For decades, a white woman’s memoir shaped our understanding of America’s first Black poet. Does a new book change the story?
by Elizabeth Winkler via The New Yorker on July 30, 2020

Will The Reckoning Over Racist Names Include These Prisons?

Many prisons, especially in the South, are named after racist officials and former plantations.
by Keri Blackinger via The Marshall Project on July 29, 2020
Formal photograph of Ulysses S. Grant.

Public Monuments and Ulysses S. Grant’s Contested Legacy

It is fair to ask whether Grant’s prewar experiences define the entirety of his character, and who sets the bar for which public figures deserve commemoration.
by Nick Sacco via Muster on July 7, 2020
Galveston Central Wharf in 1861

Granger’s Juneteenth Orders and the Limiting of Freedom

To what extent did the Union general's famous orders actually liberate the enslaved in Texas?
by Edward S. Alexander via Emerging Civil War on June 23, 2020
Film portrayal of James Hemmings

America’s First Connoisseur

Edward White’s new monthly column, “Off Menu,” serves up lesser-told stories of chefs cooking in interesting times.
by Edward D. White via The Paris Review on May 21, 2020

Since Emancipation, the United States Has Refused to Make Reparations for Slavery

But in 1862, the federal government doled out the 2020 equivalent of $23 million—not to the formerly enslaved but to their white enslavers.
by Kali Holloway via The Nation on March 23, 2020

A Slave Trader’s Office Decor and the Pornography of Capitalism

In the antebellum South, the slave trader’s office was a site of desire.
by Jeff Forret via The Panorama 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
George Washington on the cover of Alexis Coe's "You Never Forget Your First."

A New Book About George Washington Breaks All the Rules on How to Write About George Washington

A cheeky biography of the first president pulls no punches.
by Alexis Coe, Karin Wulf via Smithsonian Magazine on February 4, 2020
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West Virginia’s Attempt to Split Up Virginia Betrays the History of Both States

West Virginians left Virginia to ensure that the people's voices were heard, not to benefit special interests at the expense of democracy.
by Daniel W. Sunshine via Made By History on January 29, 2020

Inventing Freedom

Using manumission to disentangle blackness and enslavement in Cuba, Louisiana, and Virginia.
by Alejandro de la Fuente, Ariela Gross via Lapham’s Quarterly on January 21, 2020

The Long War Against Slavery

A new book argues that many seemingly isolated rebellions are better understood as a single protracted struggle.
by Casey N. Cep via The New Yorker on January 20, 2020
A a spotlight on a man in chains.

California's Forgotten Slave History

San Bernardino, California's early success rested on a pair of seemingly incongruous forces: Mormonism and slavery.
by Kevin Waite, Sarah Barringer Gordon via Los Angeles Times on January 19, 2020
Thomas Jefferson.

Jefferson and the Declaration

Jefferson’s Declaration of Independence announced a new epoch in world history, transforming a provincial tax revolt into a great struggle to liberate humanity.
by Peter S. Onuf via American Heritage on January 1, 2020
A circa 1830 illustration of a slave auction in America. Rischgitz/Hulton Archive—Getty Images.

'The Slaves Dread New Year's Day the Worst': The Grim History of January 1

New Year's Day used to be widely known as "Hiring Day" or "Heartbreak Day"
by Olivia B. Waxman via TIME on December 27, 2019

A Personal Act of Reparation

The long aftermath of a North Carolina man’s decision to deed a plot of land to his former slaves.
by Kirk Savage via Lapham’s Quarterly on December 15, 2019

A Very Lost Cause Love Affair

Is it possible to write a good Civil War romance?
by Sarah Handley-Cousins via Nursing Clio on December 5, 2019

Jefferson’s Doomed Educational Experiment

The University of Virginia was supposed to transform a slave-owning generation, but it failed.
by Annette Gordon-Reed via The Atlantic on November 10, 2019
Fort Benning under construction.

Why is the Army Still Honoring Confederate Generals?

Confederate Statues aren't the only reminder of the Civil War - the US Army still has major bases named for Confederate soldiers.
by James Risen via The Intercept on October 6, 2019

GMU to Erect Memorial Honoring More Than 100 People Enslaved by George Mason

The structure will span 300 feet and is expected to be unveiled on the Fairfax City campus in 2021.
by Lauren Lumpkin via Washington Post on September 28, 2019

In 1870, Henrietta Wood Sued for Reparations—and Won

The $2,500 verdict, the largest ever of its kind, offers evidence of the generational impact such awards can have.
by W. Caleb McDaniel via Smithsonian Magazine on September 2, 2019
Illustration of white Quakers with enslaved Africans in the background.

Slavery in the Quaker World

Christian slavery and white supremacy.
by Katharine Gerbner via Friends Journal on September 1, 2019

"Poor Whites Have Been Written out of History for a Very Political Reason"

For generations, Southern white elites have been terrified of poor whites and black workers joining hands.
by Keri Leigh Merritt, Robert Greene II via Jacobin on August 24, 2019

The Class Politics of the Civil War

By naming a common enemy the Union Army was able to build and then steer a coalition of Americans toward the systematic destruction of slavery.
by James Oakes via The Nation on July 15, 2019
Lithograph of Black wet nurse nursing a white baby.

George Washington’s Midwives

The economics of childbirth under slavery.
by Sara Collini via Lapham’s Quarterly on June 19, 2019

This Long-Ignored Document by George Washington Lays Bare the Legal Power of Genealogy

In Washington’s Virginia, family was a crucial determinant of social and economic status, and freedom.
by Karin Wulf via Smithsonian Magazine on June 18, 2019
Lehman Durr & Co. building in a turn-of-the-century photograph.

‘The Lehman Trilogy’ and Wall Street’s Debt to Slavery

If the play holds up a mirror to our moment, it is by registering slavery in a peripheral glance only to look away.
by Sarah Churchwell via New York Review of Books on June 11, 2019
Unidentified African American soldier in Union uniform with wife and two daughters.

Race in Black and White

Slavery and the Civil War were central to the development of photography as both a technology and an art.
by Alexis L. Boylan via Boston Review on June 3, 2019

Beyond Romantic Advertisements: Ancestry.com, Genealogy, and White Supremacy

On Ancestry's dangerous move to make it harder to discern which white families owned slaves.
by Adam H. Domby via Black Perspectives on May 10, 2019
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