Slavery Abolition

In 2019, the author was chosen as Faculty speaker of the year at Iona College and asked to speak to the graduating class at Spring Honors Convocation. Below is an excerpt from her remarks. As honors students you have demonstrated that you have the ability to…

Alabama Monroeville: A new play about the relationship between Alabama authors Truman Capote and Harper Lee will have its debut performances in their hometown. Truman Talks Nelle Harper Lee is set to premiere at the old Monroe County courthouse Sept. 27. It …

In many ways Thelma and Louise is the Movie That Did.  Director Ridley Scott encouraged input from his stars Susan Sarandon and Geena Davis to tell Callie Khouris feminist fable that became not just a 1991 box-office surprise but in the ways that movies can p…

The top ten candidates for the Democratic presidential nomination squared off Thursday night at Texas Southern University, a public historically black college in Houston, Texas. Here are the highlights. Julian Castro Takes A Dig At Joe Bidens Age After Misc…

(Roman Genn) It looks like Bolton did manage to start a war before he left. Its an axiom among Trump advisers that everyone is just one tweet away, and John Boltons tweet came. The former national security adviser says he wasnt fired, but resigned, and we …

Election years have their assortment of ritual appendages: sacrificial meats eaten at outdoor festivals, lies, scandals, poll numbers that grow increasingly useless as a country learns not to pick up the phone, dog whistles, prejudice, and metaphors that near…

Daniel Day-Lewis as Abraham Lincoln. Denzel Washington as Malcolm X. Meryl Streep as Margaret Thatcher. So many historical figures instantly evoke famous faces who’ve played them on the big screen. But where’s our Harriet Tubman? For one of our country’s most…

Sidney Blumenthal is the acclaimed author of A Self-Made Man, Wrestling with His Angel, and All the Powers of the Earth, the first three volumes in his five-volume biography, The Political Life of Abraham Lincoln. He is the former assistant and senior adviser…

Abraham Lincoln doesnt make much of an appearance in Sidney Blumenthals All the Powers of Earth: The Political Life of Abraham Lincoln, Volume III, 1856-1860 until around page 180, entering his own story almost as if through a side door. Then, with rapidly ga…

In 1951, as the Cold War ramped up and American soldiers died in a bloody hot war in Korea that began when communist North Korea invaded non-Communist, pro-America South Korea, Hollywood released a movie called The Day the Earth Stood Still. Its plot involve…