Slavery Abolition

A member of Congress holds a copy of the Constitution in Washington, D.C., June 20, 2017. (Kevin Lamarque/Reuters) Sean Wilentzs No Property in Man makes a stronger, subtler argument than its detractors claim.Princeton historian Sean Wilentzs 2018 book No Pr…

Princeton historian Sean Wilentzs 2018 book No Property in Man is a sober account of the relationship between the United States Constitution and slavery. The book readily acknowledges that it was a relationship marred by hypocrisy and half-measures; the Const…

Students read during class in Montgomery, Alabama, April 1939. | Marion Post Wolcott via Library of Congress Textbooks have been slow to incorporate black humanity in their slavery narratives. And they still have a long way to go. Four hundred years ago, a gr…

CHARLOTTESVILLE, VirginiaThe Camp Ten Four restaurant, on the ninth and top floor of the Graduate Charlottesville hotel, offers a good view of much of this city associated with Thomas Jefferson. Sitting at a table in the rustic venue, Charlottesville residen…

The president most known for his moral vision was also a master political operator.  All the Powers of Earth is the third installment of Sidney Blumenthal’s ongoing multivolume chronicle of “the political life of Abraham Lincoln.” It is sharply focused on th…

Six thousand years of humans writing down history reveal the most common form of government has been a monarchy. The most powerful monarchy the world had ever seen was the British monarchy. The British Empire at it zenith controlled 13 million square miles a…

For anyone who listens regularly to Rush Limbaugh, they are familiar with his thoughts on the far-left (the "deranged left" as he puts it) redefining America as a racist country founded in racism and also his thoughts on the increasing problems with a college…

Seven years ago today, as the presidential election contest between Barack Obama and Mitt Romney entered the home stretch, Vice President Joe Biden spoke at three events in Detroit. Biden was in the news that week because of an intemperate assertion that Repu…

As conflict over court-ordered busing roiled his home state, Biden led a crusade against the civil rights measure, later boasting that he made it politically acceptable for other liberals to oppose it. He built alliances with Republican racists like Sen. Jess…

Beto ORourke has taken the measure of America and found it wanting. This country, though we would like to think otherwise, he intoned over the weekend, was founded on racism, has persisted through racism and is racist today. This is now a mainstream sentime…