Slavery Abolition

A colleague volunteered some advice the other day about how I might leap into controversies over changing the honorary names of lakes and buildings and generally disinfecting the present from history’s toxic legacies. I’m not sure it’s wise to join this hist…

A lot of pundits are beginning to caution Democrats that veering too far to the left on policies could damage their prospects in the 2020 race by alienating moderate Democrats and Independents. Here is how Ronald Brownstein introduced the concern. Liberals d…

BOMBAY TIMES EXCLUSIVE A police van is stationed outside Javed Akhtars Mumbai home when we meet him on Monday afternoon. Even we are closely monitored as we enter the building. As soon as we meet him, the senior lyricist and poet lauds Mumbai Police and clari…

PHILADELPHIA, May 8, 2019 /PRNewswire/ -- Tomorrow, Thursday, May 9, the National Constitution Center's new permanent exhibit Civil War and Reconstruction: The Battle for Freedom and Equalitythe first exhibit in America devoted to exploring how constitutional…

Three years after the end of the Civil War, Florida, like other former Confederate states, began working to nullify the wars outcome. In 1868, to gain reentry to the Union, the state had to adopt a new Constitution that accepted the end of slavery and adopted…

Three years after the end of the Civil War, Florida, like other former Confederate states, began working to nullify the wars outcome. In 1868, to gain reentry to the Union, the state had to adopt a new Constitution that accepted the end of slavery and adopted…

Walt Whitman and Peter Doyle, 1865. Photo: Moses P. Rice and Sons. Feinberg-Whitman collection. Walt Whitman, that most exuberant of poets, the 19th century bard of transcendent sensitivity, sensuousness and epic vision, was given to intimate correspondence …

Three years after the end of the Civil War, Florida, like other former Confederate states, began working to nullify the wars outcome. In 1868, to gain reentry to the Union, the state had to adopt a new Constitution that accepted the end of slavery and adopted…

Three years after the end of the Civil War, Florida, like other former Confederate states, began working to nullify the wars outcome. In 1868, to gain reentry to the Union, the state had to adopt a new Constitution that accepted the end of slavery and adopted…

What might world history have looked like if there had never been a United States, or if it ceased to exist before the 20th-century? Is America an exceptional nation, an idea even, that stands as a beacon of hope to the rest of the world? Is America largely i…