Elijah Lovejoy

Lovejoy, who ran a weekly paper called the Observer, was repeatedly targeted by mobs over his persistent writings against slavery.

On the social and political function of political media.

We may not be in the midst of a war today, but the progress of democracy in this country is still tied to the rights of its most vulnerable citizens.

The bloody history of attacks on American journalists.

To understand discourse around “Christian nationalism,” look no further than the abolitionist hailed by many on the left.

In the mid-19th century, a pro-slavery minority used violence to stifle a growing anti-slavery majority, spurring their opposition to respond in kind.

The transcendentalists thought all human inspiration was divine, all nature a miracle.

The proliferation of antebellum print is analogous to our own tectonic shifts in how people communicate and what they communicate about.

How the myth of a liberal North erases a long history of white violence.

In criminalizing the provision of humanitarian assistance to migrants, we have resurrected the unjust laws of antebellum America.

Civil War historian David Blight reflects on America’s Disunion – then and now.

Like the abolitionists of yesteryear, white Americans who oppose racial oppression deserve to be remembered and emulated.

Is 2016 worse than 1348? And 1836? And 1919?