Slavery Abolition

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…

Jane Addams (September 6, 1860 – May 21, 1935) was a pioneer settlement worker, founder of Hull House in Chicago, public philosopher, sociologist, author, and leader in woman suffrage and world peace. Beside presidents such as Theodore Roosevelt and Woodrow W…

A newly uncovered speech by Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. delivered in 1967 sounds curiously like the civil rights icon is speaking about current-day conditions as he preaches about underfunded schools, the wage gap, white backlash against black progress and the…

It’s been almost a year since Cynthia Erivo first stepped into Harriet Tubman’s shoes in Harriet—a biopic about the historical heroine who escaped slavery and freed hundreds of slaves via the Underground Railroad. And it’s almost a year, too, since Erivo firs…