William Lloyd Garrison

The assumptions of white priority and white domination suffuse every chapter and every theme of the thousands of textbooks that have blanketed the schools of our country.

During the Civil War, slave pens held captive Confederate soldiers. After, they became rallying points for a newly empowered community.

Like the abolitionists of yesteryear, white Americans who oppose racial oppression deserve to be remembered and emulated.

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

"Get Off the Track!" borrowed the melody of a racist hit song and helped give a public voice to the abolitionist movement.

For some time now, the answer has not been the abolitionists.

The 19th century recovery of John Winthrop's sermon, "A City on a Hill."

It will help black Americans to recall that they have a history that transcends victimization and exclusion.

What is the greatest libertarian accomplishment of all time? The abolition of slavery.

David Brion Davis’s philosophical history.

Frederick Douglass’ 1852 speech is widely known as one of the greatest abolitionist speeches ever.

A look back at the historian's work suggests that contemporary radicals may be all too invested in the myth of American consensus.