Slavery Abolition

Skip to comments. Charlottesville scraps Thomas Jefferson's birthday as a city holiday, recognizes emancipationRichmond Dispatch ^ | 07 03 2019 | BOB BROWN Posted on 07/03/2019 4:58:46 AM PDT by yesthatjallen The city of Charlottesville will no longer …

Congress decided yet again to hold a hearing on slavery reparations, this one on June 19. There’s a campaign to be waged against Donald Trump, after all. The hearing featured intellectuals like Ta-Nehisi Coates and second-tier celebs like Danny Glover laying…

It's nearly impossible to find a holiday more American than Independence Day. What's not to like? The Fourth of July often falls in the middle of the week, and it gives many Americans a day off from work. There are fireworks, gatherings of family and friends…

"Don't interfere with anything in the Constitution. That must be maintained, for it is the only safeguard of our liberties." President Abraham Lincoln's words, delivered in 1856, still sound contemporary. Americans on all sides of the political spectrum see t…

In the world of collecting, our occasional correspondent Dave Begley is what they call a completist. In his “live from Iowa” coverage of the 2020 field of presidential contenders, Dave is leaving no Democratic candidate behind. When Marianne Williamson brough…

Mercury One, a Christian humanitarian aid and education nonprofit founded by Glenn Beck, will present an immersive pop-up exhibition highlighting slavery and abolition in America, past and present, over the weekends of June 29 30 and July 4 7. 12 Score & …

A "lost" Bible belonging to Abraham Lincoln that's now on display at the Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum in Springfield, Illinois may shed new light on his religious beliefs (or lack thereof), which scholars continue to debate. The Ladies of …

A Trump supporter holds an American flag at a rally in Madison, Ala., February 2016.(Marvin Gentry/Reuters) A politics stripped of the good might be unable to sustain the intellectual and cultural capital that makes a liberal regime possible in the first pla…

Alan Singer is the author of New York's Grand Emancipation Jubilee: Essays on Slavery, Resistance, Abolition, Teaching, and Historical Memory(Albany, NY: SUNY Press, 2018). In a recent op-ed in the New York Times, “Stonewall and the Myth of Self-Deliverance …

A rare artifact of the Civil War that was carried into battle by an African American regiment has been purchased at a historic price by the Atlanta History Center. A regimental flag of the 127th United States Colored Troops that was acquired by the center is…