Slavery Abolition

Photograph: Carlos Barría/Reuters This year marks 400 years since enslaved Africans from Angola were forcibly brought to Jamestown, Virginia. This forced migration of black bodies on to what would become the United States of America represents the intertwine…

Turchin has some great stories about unity vs. polarization over time. For example in the 1940s, unity became such a “problem” that concerned citizens demanded more partisanship: Concerned about electoral torpor and meaningless political debate, the American…

Samuel "Sam" Houston (March 2, 1793 – July 26, 1863) was an American politician and soldier, best known for his role in bringing Texas into the United States as a constituent state. His victory at the Battle of San Jacinto secured the independence of Texas fr…

France, Greece, Hungary, Paraguay, Poland, Russia, and the United Kingdom all have former US presidents memorialised as statues.Abraham Lincoln and Ronald Reagan appear the most.But George Washington, Dwight D. Eisenhower, Benjamin F…

I only ever write novels about things that I dont know, she says via phone. When I first started The Testaments, things had changed: For a while, we were going away from The Handmaids Tale, but now were going towards it. In real life. And in real life, totali…

When Harper LeesGo Set a Watchman was published last summer, fans were disturbed at its depiction of Atticus Finch, which seemed to warp an iconic hero of American fiction beyond recognition. Go Set a Watchman shows Atticus as a hidebound defender of Southern…

“To ward off criticisms of Trumps bursts of racist rhetoric, Republican leaders reflexively play the Lincoln card,” wrote Blumenthal. “But the party of Trump is the antithesis of the party of Lincoln, the culmination of a long realignment. Beginning in the 19…

A block down the road from where the debate was being held was the Fillmore Detroit theater, where a portion of Williamsons robust following from her days in the city gathered to watch the debate. A woman glumly ate blueberries out of a large Ziploc bag as th…

This is the grave of John Bell. Born in 1796 near Nashville, Bell came from a relatively prosperous family for the Tennessee frontier. He went to Cumberland College, graduating in 1814. He then studied the law and was admitted to the bar in 1816, starting a…

The New York Times “1619 Project” is being lauded by the media and many Democrats for what they believe is a long overdue discovery of the hidden truth of America -- that it was founded on white racism and the enslavement of blacks, and that even today the be…