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Tent for a Sons of Confederate Veterans camp, with flags and memorabilia.

Ohio Has Always Had Confederate Apologists

In June, Ohio legislators refused to ban confederate memorabilia from county fairs. The state has long had a complicated relationship with the Confederacy.
by Eric Michael Rhodes via Belt Magazine on July 6, 2020
Illustration of Founders signing the Declaration of Independence.

How the Meaning of the Declaration of Independence Changed Over Time

When Thomas Jefferson penned ‘all men are created equal,’ he did not mean individual equality, says Stanford scholar.
by Jack Rakove, Melissa De Witte via Stanford University on July 1, 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

The Confederacy Was an Antidemocratic, Centralized State

The actual Confederate States of America was a repressive state devoted to white supremacy.
by Stephanie McCurry via The Atlantic on June 21, 2020

Shopping for Racial Justice, Then and Now

Using one’s buying power to support causes one believes in and to effect change is not new.
by Bronwen Everill via Harvard University Press Blog on June 18, 2020
Black and white photo of three African-American men with signs that state, "I am a man," as a military tank rolls through the street

Insurrection in the Eye of the Beholder

The Insurrection Act of 1807, which Trump has threatened to invoke, is the linchpin of several iconic events in African American history.
by Hawa Allan via The Baffler on June 2, 2020

The Patriot Slave

The dangerous myth that blacks in bondage chose not to be free in revolutionary America.
by Farah Peterson via The American Scholar on June 2, 2020
Map of Brooklyn, Illinois and St. Louis, Missouri, 1905.

We Call It Freedom Village: Brooklyn, Illinois’s Radical Tactics of Black Place-Making

A look into the largely unexplored history of black town-building.
by Alicia Olushola Ajayi via Medium on May 28, 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

Is Capitalism Racist?

A scholar depicts white supremacy as the economic engine of American history.
by Nicholas Lemann via The New Yorker on May 18, 2020
Graphic of Sojourner Truth testifying in court.

The Electrifying Speeches of Sojourner Truth

Daina Ramey Berry details the life of the outspoken activist Sojourner Truth and her legendary speaking tour.
via TED on April 28, 2020

Reconstruction in America

Mass lynchings of Black people following the Civil War.
by Jennifer Rae Taylor, Kiara Boone, Jonathan Gibson, Sade Stevens, Kayla Vinson, Trey Walk, Sumita Rajpurohit, Breana Lamkin via Equal Justice Initiative on April 23, 2020

Richmond Rising

African Americans and the mobilization of the Confederate capital.
by Cameron Sauers via Emerging Civil War on April 21, 2020

Slavery Documents from Southern Saltmakers Bring Light to Dark History

For one West Virginia community, the acquisition is a missing puzzle piece to questions about slavery in the state.
by Makeda Easter via Los Angeles Times on April 16, 2020
Photo of Frederick Douglass

Frederick Douglass: The Most Photographed American of the 19th Century

Be Woke presents Black History in two minutes (or so).
via YouTube on April 3, 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

I Am a Descendant of James Madison and His Slave

My whole life, my mother told me, ‘Always remember — you’re a Madison. You come from African slaves and a president.’
by Bettye Kearse via Zora on March 17, 2020
Wanto Co. grocery store with a sign that reads "I Am An American"

Discovering Judith Shklar’s Skeptical Liberalism of Fear

Judith Shklar fled Nazis and Stalinism before discovering in African-American history the dilemma of modern liberalism.
by Samantha Ashenden, Andreas Hess via Aeon on March 16, 2020

Missouri Compromised

Anti-slavery protest during the Missouri statehood debate.
by Nick Sacco via Muster on March 10, 2020

I Helped Fact-Check the 1619 Project. The Times Ignored Me.

The paper’s series on slavery made avoidable mistakes. But the attacks from its critics are much more dangerous.
by Leslie M. Harris via Politico Magazine on March 6, 2020

The Science of Abolition

On Hosea Easton’s and David Walker’s attempts to debunk scientific racism.
by Lynne Feeley via Lapham’s Quarterly on March 4, 2020
Chart of names of and payments to enslaved people.

Confederate Slave Payrolls Shed Light on Lives of 19th-Century African American Families

The Confederate Army required owners to loan their slaves to the military. The National Archives has now digitized those records.
by Victoria Macchi via U.S. National Archives on March 3, 2020
George Washington's false teeth

Were George Washington's Teeth Taken from Enslaved People?

How the dental history of the nation’s first president is interwoven with slavery and privilege.
by Matthew Wills, Jennifer Van Horn via JSTOR Daily on February 25, 2020

A Romantic Union? Thoughts on Plantation Weddings from a Photographer/Historian

Plantations are not "charming" or "tranquil" wedding venues. They were gruesome labor camps profiting off of enslaved labor.
by John R. Legg via National Council on Public History on February 24, 2020

Slavery Was Defeated Through Mass Politics

The overthrow of slavery in the US was a battle waged and won in the field of democratic mass politics; a battle that holds enormous lessons for radicals today.
by Matthew Karp via Jacobin on February 24, 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

Can Slavery Reënactments Set Us Free?

Underground Railroad simulations have ignited controversy about whether they confront the country’s darkest history or trivialize its gravest traumas.
by Julian Lucas via The New Yorker on February 10, 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

Slave Hounds and Abolition in the Americas

How dogs permeated slave societies and bolstered European ambitions for colonial expansion and social domination.
by Tyler D. Parry, Charlton W. Yingling via Past & Present on February 4, 2020
Paintings of a line of people in darkness in chains behind a Black woman in the light receiving a diploma.

Slavery Reparations Seem Impossible. In Many places, They’re Already Happening.

At the local level, reparations for slavery are already being paid all over the country.
by Thai Jones via Washington Post on January 31, 2020
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