The worldwide movement against slavery (still not entirely eliminated) can be seen as a coming of age...
Slavery
Almost all peoples have been both slaves and slaveholders at some point in their histories. Introduction Various...
By 1851, Brown was internationally well known. This article, The Narrative of Henry Box Brown (1849), was...
Whether we like it or not, John C. Calhoun is still very much with us today. Originally...
The Underground Railroad didn’t just head North – also led to Mexico. The Underground Railroad also ran...
How did the abolitionist movement evolve and respond to national events that shook the nation in the...
A favorite of Old Hickory, she made him seem kinder than he was. Why? Though he no...
How did Twain’s Huckleberry Finn engage and challenge popular ideas about slavery and race in nineteenth-century America?...
It was only midway through the war that Lincoln reached the conclusion that abolishing slavery would preserve...
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His work catapulted Powers to international fame in the 19th century. Introduction They say Ideal beauty cannot...
More successful than most third parties, it had two senators and fourteen representatives sent to the thirty-first...
She overheard talk of freedom and was determined it should apply to her, too. Nearly 250 years...
The events in Bleeding Kansas directly foreshadowed the American Civil War. Introduction Bleeding Kansas, sometimes referred to...
Garrison considered himself a pacifist, a believer in the power of truth to undo the wickedness of...
Spirituals were created out of the experience of enslaved people in the U.S. They were songs of...
Introduction Reconstruction is the name of the historical period following the American Civil War during which the...
The Constitutional Convention of 1789, following the Revolution, had failed to address slavery, and it took another...
The history of slave rebels and resistance in the Caribbean is a rich and complicated story. Marissa:...
The excised passage was not then without effect and ought not now to be without effect. In...
The Emancipation Proclamation Inspired New Year’s celebrations that endure to this day. For young Ed McCree, enslaved...
Sadly, Follen’s Christmas tree has gone largely forgotten. Karl Follen came to America from Germany in 1825...
The most lucrative cash crops to emerge from the Americas in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries were...
The South was allowed to go back to their old ways of bigotry. The American Story is...
Andrew Johnson lacked Lincoln’s political skills and instead exhibited a stubbornness and confrontational approach. Introduction President Johnson...
Native American assistance to freedom seekers crossing through the Midwest has largely been erased from Underground Railroad...
Two factors overlapped to result in the genocide of the Kikotan people. Reckoning with the past is...
Placing special emphasis on visual culture in the forms of photographs and postcards, Goldstein unpacks the complicated...
Both during slavery and after, the power structures of American society confined many black women to the...
The first Africans in the colonies came from Angola 400 years ago and were initially captured by...