Thirteenth Amendment

During the Civil War, the Lincoln administration demonstrated that a progressive agenda and effective anti-inflationary measures could overlap.

How shall a generation know its story, if it will know no other?

In Maryland, a memorial for two lynching victims reveals how America is grappling with its history of racial terror.

The Harriet Tubman Bicentennial Project explores the meaning of freedom through the example of one extraordinary life.

If this nation hopes to achieve a justice system that is just, it must remain ever vigilant for any echo from Attica.

One hundred and twenty five years after the Supreme Court’s decision in Plessy v. Ferguson, there are still lessons to be gleaned from the case.

Law enforcement and the urban-rural divide.

A new three-part PBS documentary explores the failure of Reconstruction and the Redemption of the South.

Ignoring the moral imperative of repairing slavery's wounds because it might be “divisive” reinforces a myth of white innocence.

Its purpose 150 years ago was to incorporate former slaves into the nation.

How Southern whites found replacements for their emancipated slaves in the prison system.

The Constitution of 2018 is not the Constitution written by the Framers in 1787, and no one should wish otherwise.

Commemoration of the 14th Amendment must not display the abundance of freedom, but the hunger for it on both sides of the border.

The lesser-known beginning of the desegregation of public transportation.

The Reverend Dr. Henry Highland Garnet may be the most famous African American you never learned about.

Americans should build this pivotal post–Civil War era into the new politics of historical memory.

As the South Carolina city prepared to break from the Union, its people swung between nostalgia and rebellion.

After emancipation, prison labor replaced slavery as a way for white Southerners to enforce a racial hierarchy.

The internecine conflict and the institution of slavery could not and did not end neatly at Appomattox or on Galveston Island.

The National Parks Service, which preserves many Civil War sites, is finally looking for a way to mark the struggles that defined its legacy.