John Brown

For decades, slaveholders were powerfully committed to the Union. That changed when Washington stopped protecting their interests.

They force us to remember the worst parts of our history.

Since Trump took office, the park service — charged with preserving American history — has changed how it describes key moments from slavery to Jim Crow.

Delivered 250 years ago, the famous oration marked the Henry’s influence. The politician also served in key roles in Virginia’s state government.

Our country has a long history of admiring particular acts of violence.

New books reconsider how Ulysses S. Grant became a forceful defender of the rights of African Americans after the Civil War.

Historian Robin Blackburn has completed a trilogy of books that provide a comprehensive Marxist account of slavery in the New World.

The untold story of the Wide Awakes, the young Americans who took up the torch for their antislavery cause and stirred the nation.

It’s important to remember why analogies to Jesus should stay out of the political realm. The results are always ugly.

Edda L. Fields-Black sets out to restore the Combahee River Raid to its proper place in Tubman’s life and in the war on slavery.

In early America, the soaring ideals behind establishing a new democracy were marked by cycles of progress and backlash.

And justified the most extreme responses.

A Washington Post investigation of more than 400 artworks in the U.S. Capitol building found that one-third honor enslavers or Confederates.

Is Jefferson's Bible evidence that the Founding Fathers engaged with scripture to birth a Christian nation? Or that they sought to foster a new secular order?

A new biography explores the work of the influential abolitionist Lydia Maria Child, who wrote about the social, political, and cultural issues of her time.

A history tour at Harper’s Ferry suggests that “commemoration” and “desecration” might be two sides of the same coin.

Two recent books examine the idea of the Midwest as a haven for white supremacy and patriarchy.

The struggle for progress is always two steps forward and at least one step back.

The US Civil War was a revolutionary upheaval that crushed slavery and stoked hopes of a broader emancipation against the rule of property.

On the devout abolitionists who excoriated American exceptionalism.