Frederick Douglass

The problem of how to reconcile irreconcilable values is what led to the Civil War. It hasn’t gone away.

From the day it was inaugurated, the Statue of Liberty has symbolized the tensions between national independence and universal human rights.

The Colored Convention Movement, black citizenship, and the Fourteenth Amendment.

After the Civil War, African Americans in the South transformed Independence Day into a celebration of their newly won freedom.

To preserve the political and cultural preeminence of white Americans against a tide of demographic change, the administration has settled on a policy of systemic child abuse.

The NFL's response to player protests reflects decades of League and U.S. attempts to portray false images of post-racial harmony.

The history of the left in the United States is a history of betrayal.

The March for Our Lives organizers are not an anomaly, but follow in a long tradition of youth activism in America.

By connecting liberation at home with an end to U.S. militarism abroad, today's black activists are picking up where MLK left off.

On Haiti, Donald Trump sounds a lot like Thomas Jefferson.

The wealth gap between white Americans and black Americans is stark.

We date the expansion of voting rights to women in 1920, but the real story is a lot more complex.

Tearing down monuments is only the beginning to understanding the false narrative of Jim Crow.

Was the white-nationalist march better understood as a departure from America’s traditional values, or viewed in the context of its history?

Independence Day has always been a political battlefield.

Fred Kaplan's new book asks why it took Abraham Lincoln so long to embrace emancipation.

The surprising persistence of Henry David Thoreau.

In the late 19th century, Wells connected lynchings to the economic interests and status anxieties of white southerners.

Yale adopts a new approach to deciding whether Calhoun College and other university properties need new names.

Black veterans were once targeted for racialized violence because of the equality with whites that their military service implied.