William Lloyd Garrison

The story of America can be told through the story of its periodicals.

To preserve Black history, a 19th-century archivist filled hundreds of scrapbooks with newspaper clippings and other materials.

The 1960s and 70s were a time of activism in the U.S., and therefore a fertile time for campus newspapers and the alternative press.

History suggests that what you see on the campaign trail, or even in a candidate’s past record, is not always what you get from a president once in power.

Why secession, separatism, and disunion are the most American of values.

How today's protests are struggling to reclaim the vision of the great abolitionist leader.

How a monument that championed black sacrifice in the name of emancipation was forgotten.

Contrary to the image of the kneeling slave, Black abolitionists did not wait passively for the "Day of Jubilee." They led the charge.

The paper’s series on slavery made avoidable mistakes. But the attacks from its critics are much more dangerous.

The overthrow of slavery in the US was a battle waged and won in the field of democratic mass politics; a battle that holds enormous lessons for radicals today.

How dogs permeated slave societies and bolstered European ambitions for colonial expansion and social domination.

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

It’s time to fight for the original and heretofore unachieved goals of the women’s movement.

From the Framers on, Americans have understood our fundamental law to oppose ownership of persons.

The historical context of the amendments passed in the wake of the Civil War, Eric Foner argues, are widely misunderstood.

As part of its “1619” inquiry into slavery's legacy, The New York Times revives 19th century revisionist history on the founding.

How a group of 19th-century Quakers cut their economic ties to slavery.

1776 began as a petty squabble among odious and powerful elites. It soon became the lodestar of emancipatory movements everywhere.

A towering new biography of the great American orator and public intellectual Frederick Douglass.

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