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The Thrilling Tale of How Robert Smalls Seized a Confederate Ship and Sailed it to Freedom
He risked his life to liberate his family and became a legend in the process.
by
Cate Lineberry
via
Smithsonian
on
June 13, 2017
Slave Consumption in the Old South: A Double-Edged Sword
Buying goods in the Old South revealed the fragile politics at the heart of master-slave relation.
by
Kathleen Hilliard
via
Process: A Blog for American History
on
June 12, 2017
Compare the Two Versions of Sojourner Truth's “Ain’t I a Woman” Speech
Why is there more than one version of the famous 1851 speech?
by
Leslie Podell
via
The Sojourner Truth Project
on
June 6, 2017
The Myth of the Kindly General Lee
The legend of the Confederate leader’s heroism and decency is based in the fiction of a person who never existed.
by
Adam Serwer
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The Atlantic
on
June 4, 2017
The Battle for Memorial Day in New Orleans
A century and a half after the Civil War, Mayor Mitch Landrieu asked his city to reexamine its past — and to wrestle with hard truths.
by
David W. Blight
via
The Atlantic
on
May 29, 2017
The Conservative Revolution of 1776
The leaders of the Revolutionary War -- and their vision for the nation -- were far from revolutionary.
by
Diana Muir Appelbaum
via
The New Rambler
on
May 29, 2017
A Case for Reparations at the University of Chicago
What does the institution owe the descendants of slaves?
by
Guy Emerson Mount
,
Caine Jordan
,
Kai Parker
via
Black Perspectives
on
May 22, 2017
Robert E. Lee Topples From His Pedestal
The Confederate general has long been seen, in the South and beyond, as embodying the virtues of the ideal man.
by
Kevin M. Levin
via
The Atlantic
on
May 19, 2017
Mr. President, You're Right About Andrew Jackson
If Jackson's presidency had been later, he may have prevented the Civil War.
by
Daniel Ruddy
via
Newsmax
on
May 6, 2017
Out of Sight, Out of Mind: Mass Incarceration
The rise of mass incarceration in the early 1970s was fueled by white fear of black crime. But the fear of crime wasn’t confined to whites.
by
Adam Shatz
via
London Review of Books
on
May 4, 2017
Wealth, Slavery, and the History of American Taxation
The nation's first "colorblind" tax set the stage for over two centuries of systematic consolidation of white racial interests.
by
Christopher F. Petrella
via
Black Perspectives
on
April 20, 2017
A Dual Emancipation
How black freedom benefited poor whites.
by
Keri Leigh Merritt
via
Black Perspectives
on
April 15, 2017
It’s Time for Historians of Slavery to Listen to Economists
Economic analyses of the antebellum era upend the notion that Southern whites were united in their support of slavery.
by
Keri Leigh Merritt
via
Historians Against Slavery
on
March 17, 2017
Ben Carson, Donald Trump, and the Misuse of American History
The eliding of the ugliness of America's racial history is neither novel nor particularly surprising.
by
Jelani Cobb
via
The New Yorker
on
March 8, 2017
When Slaveholders Ran America
Before the Civil War, many Southern leaders hoped to expand slavery even beyond the nation's borders.
by
Abrahim Sundiata
via
Public Books
on
March 1, 2017
What the Fugitive Slave Act Teaches Us About How States Can Resist Oppressive Federal Power
The actions of attorneys general in California and other states have their antecedents in the fight against that draconian law.
by
Eric Foner
via
The Nation
on
February 8, 2017
Frederick Douglass, Refugee
Throughout modern history, the millions forced to flee as refugees have felt Douglass' agony, and thought his thoughts.
by
David W. Blight
via
The Atlantic
on
February 7, 2017
A Brief History of Sanctuary Cities
Today's debate over sanctuary cities embodies a much longer debate in America over federalism.
by
H. Robert Baker
via
Tropics of Meta
on
February 2, 2017
Monumental Effort: Historians and the Creation of the National Monument to Reconstruction
Two historians weigh in on President Obama's move to designate a national monument to Reconstruction in South Carolina.
by
Kate Masur
,
Gregory P. Downs
,
Kritika Agarwal
via
Perspectives on History
on
January 24, 2017
Decoder: The Slave Insurance Market
How much did slave owners pay for antebellum-era policies from Aetna, AIG, and New York Life?
by
Michael Ralph
,
William Rankin
via
Foreign Policy
on
January 16, 2017
The Accidental Patriots
Many Americans could have gone either way during the Revolution.
by
Caitlin Fitz
via
The Atlantic
on
December 1, 2016
Indians, Slaves, and Mass Murder: The Hidden History
Two historians shed light on the atrocities of Native American enslavement and genocide.
by
Peter Nabokov
via
New York Review of Books
on
November 24, 2016
Slavery, Democracy, and the Racialized Roots of the Electoral College
The Electoral College was created to help white Southerners maintain their disproportionate influence in national governance.
by
Christopher F. Petrella
via
Black Perspectives
on
November 14, 2016
Why Haiti Should be at the Centre of the Age of Revolution
Haiti, not the US or France, was where the assertion of human rights reached its climax in the Age of Revolution.
by
Laurent Dubois
via
Aeon
on
November 7, 2016
Strummin’ on the Old Banjo
How an African instrument got a racist reinvention.
by
Ben Marks
via
Collectors Weekly
on
October 4, 2016
Who Freed the Slaves?
For some time now, the answer has not been the abolitionists.
by
Stephanie McCurry
via
The Nation
on
September 13, 2016
Deep in the Swamps, Archaeologists Are Finding How Fugitive Slaves Kept Their Freedom
The Great Dismal Swamp was once a thriving refuge for runaways.
by
Richard Grant
via
Smithsonian
on
September 1, 2016
Last Seen: Finding Family After Slavery
Last Seen is recovering stories of families separated in the domestic slave trade. The following explains how the project engages with these family histories.
via
Villanova University
on
August 1, 2016
Our Fellow American Revolutionaries
When residents of the U.S. came to see Latin Americans as partners in a shared revolutionary experiment.
by
Caitlin Fitz
,
Timothy Shenk
via
Dissent
on
June 30, 2016
Slavery and Freedom
Eric Foner, Walter Johnson, Thavolia Glymph, and Annette Gordon-Reed discuss trends in the study of slavery and emancipation.
by
Eric Foner
,
Thavolia Glymph
,
Annette Gordon-Reed
,
Walter Johnson
via
YouTube
on
May 20, 2016
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