Tucker Carlson may be the dumbest person in the United States. Or maybe he is just dishonest. Fox News host Tucker Carlson on Sunday declared that all slavery in the world had been eradicated thanks to the Christian faith. At the National Prayer Breakfast last...
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On November 25, 1865, Mississippi created the first of the Black Codes. Designed to recreate slavery in all but name, this signified the white South's massive resistance to the freeing.
My dislike for a lot of traditional Thanksgiving food, especially turkey, is fairly well known around these parts, but I always knew the holiday and its food more or less.
That Qatar World Cup is really setting a new standard for labor rights: Thousands of migrant labourers from North Korea are toiling for years on construction sites in Qatar for virtually no pay – including on the vast new metropolis that is the centrepiece of...
It's hardly surprising once you think about it, but you probably don't think about it, so it's worth noting the role slavery had in building so many of our older.
On October 28, 1793, Eli Whitney submitted a patent for his invention known as the cotton gin. Perhaps more than any technology in American history, this invention profoundly revolutionized American.
Happy Alexander Hamilton Publicly Accuses Thomas Jefferson of Sex with Slaves Anniversary.
In 2007, North Carolina state House speaker Thom Tillis voted for a state resolution apologizing for slavery. Of course, in conservative land this is controversial. So he explained his vote.
You'd like to think that Gone With the Wind influenced fashion themes that romanticize plantation life would be dead in the fashion industry. This new fashion spread titled "Allure of.
In the recent battles over the new AP U.S. History standards, standards that center nothing more than the standard narrative of most American historians in 2014, one of the right-wing critiques is that they don't celebrate American exceptionalism, while instead instilling in our young people...
On September 22, 1862, President Abraham Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation, which declared slaves in all parts of the U.S. in rebellion free on January 1, 1863 if they did.
Normally I would oppose Americans pretending to be Canadian citizens, as the existence of the northern menace is a threat to us all. But I will make an exception for.