Gerald Horne

Historian Gerald Horne has developed a grand theory of U.S. history as a series of devastating backlashes to progress—right down to the present day.

Running through all of historian Gerald Horne's books are the twin themes of revolution and repression.

The decline of Southern industries paved the way for plantations in Fiji and Australia, where victims of “blackbirding” endured horrific working conditions.

Robin Blackburn’s sweeping history of slavery and freedom in the 19th century.

A multi-layered, hyperlinked narrative that maps Harlem residents' challenges to white economic and political power, and the responses they provoked.

Critics of the New York Times’s 1619 Project obscure a longstanding debate among historians over whether the American Revolution was a proslavery revolt.