Eugene Genovese

A groundbreaking new book demonstrates that even during the days of slavery, African Americans knew a lot more about legal principles than has been imagined.

It’s time for another national teach-in movement.

In the American South, an oligarchy of planters enriched itself through slavery. Pervasive underdevelopment is their legacy.

What happens when radical historians write for the public.

To understand the proslavery defense of the 1850s, one must reckon with the proslavery Malthusianism articulated by Cooper in the 1820s.

A review of "C. Vann Woodward: America’s Historian."

It erases the fact that, for the first 70 years of its existence, the US was roiled by intense, escalating conflict over slavery – a conflict only resolved by civil war.

What gets lost when we view the American past as primarily a story about capitalism? 

White women have trafficked in Black women’s milk.

Historian James Oakes offers a critique of the New History of Capitalism.

Dan Berger interviews Stuart Schrader about his new book on US imperialism.

Dishing the African diaspora in Brazil and the United States.

A historian looks back at the legacy of slavery and Jim Crow in her home state.

In an age when the White House is being asked if slavery was a good or bad thing, perhaps we should take a look at the history of the history of slavery.

The international ambitions of the US slaveholding class and the abolitionist movement that brought them down.

David Brion Davis’s philosophical history.

A look back at the historian's work suggests that contemporary radicals may be all too invested in the myth of American consensus.