This looks really great: Readers of the May 24, 1796 Pennsylvania Gazette found an advertisement offering ten dollars to any person who would apprehend Oney Judge, an enslaved woman who.
On April 6, 1712, a group of slaves gathered in Manhattan, setting fire to a building on Maiden Lane, near Broadway. When whites gathered to put out the fire, the.
Walter Johnson is one of our premier historians, period. His work on slavery and capitalism has helped reorient a narrative that for way, way too long argued that slavery was.
It's President's Day, but rather than focus on the presidents themselves this year, how about we think about all the people who have made the presidency work over the years?.
One of my hobbyhorses is how frustrating it is that our public discussion of race in this country exists primarily on a black-white binary. At least at one university I.
Good essay from historian Daina Ramey Berry on the horrible 19th century trade in human bodies you don't know about: the cadaver trade. There was plenty of weird cadaver trading.
On January 16, 1865, General William Tecumseh Sherman issued Special Field Order No. 15, granting coastal plantation properties from Savannah, Georgia to the St. John's River in Florida to ex-slaves..
When thinking about the worst presidents in American history, a topic very much on our minds these days, we should not forget the odious Millard Fillmore. But one aspect of.
