Matthew E. Stanley

James Longstreet became an apostate for supporting black civil rights during Reconstruction.

After Emancipation, Black people fought for public benefits like pensions that would make their newly won citizenship meaningful.

Leftists have regarded Lincoln as a pro-labor hero who helped vanquish chattel slavery. We should celebrate him today within the radical democratic tradition.

If fact-checking could fix us, we’d be a utopia by now.

A new book argues that the American right emerged out of a backlash to multiracial democracy following the Civil War.

Thaddeus Stevens understood far better than most that fully uprooting slavery meant overthrowing the South’s economic system and challenging property rights.

In 1860, a novel paramilitary-style organization mobilized hundreds of thousands against the Southern planter class.