Slavery Abolition

Listen to Sean Wilentz discuss No Property in Man—and argue that, far from covering up a crime against humanity, the Constitution restricted slavery’s legitimacy under the new national government—on the podcast The Age of Jackson:Listen to “Ep. 56: Slavery an…

The Democratic presidential campaign playbook has, for decades, included grand promises to reach out to the GOP to solve the nation’s ills. In 2020, some candidates are throwing that playbook out the window. “If the Republicans are going to try to block us …

This essay discusses plot points in Once Upon a Time in Hollywood. The author strongly recommends bookmarking this for after you have seen the movie. The notion that Quentin Tarantinos films are too obsessed with other films has always struck me as intriguin…

Skip to comments. Ronald Reagan's 1971 racist phone call with Richard Nixon unearthed NYPost ^ | July 31, 2019 Posted on 07/31/2019 11:05:25 AM PDT by SMGFan The National Archives released tape of a controversial 1971 phone call between then-California …

Protesters interrupted Donald Trump during a speech by shouting you cant send us back - Virginia is our home. Audience members at the US Presidents speech in Jamestown, Virginia booed and jeered as a man wearing a tuxedo stood up and shouted his message. He…

I recently reread one of my favorite books, Uncle Tom's Cabin.  I'm fond of the book, partly because I spent my early 20s living on Forest Street in Hartford, Connecticut, and got to gaze at the beautiful Harriet Beecher Stowe house daily.  Because of this pr…

It was December 1861, a Tuesday at noon, when President Abraham Lincoln sent his first annual message  — what later became the State of the Union — to the House and Senate. By the next day, all 7,000 words of the manuscript were published in newspapers acros…

I’d call it a remarkable legacy for a poet to have, whose work, over time, time and again, has allowed playwrights and musicians to plumb it for more. Admittedly I’ve read only a little of Langston Hughes’ poetry. He is the kind of writer whose language is so…

The San Francisco School Board recently confronted perhaps the greatest crisis in the city’s history. Forget fire, earthquake, fear of Japanese attack, and murder of the mayor by a disgruntled ex-city councilman. Washington High School sports an extensive…

Republicans have a go-to line when it comes to deflecting charges of racism: Were the party of Lincoln! For instance, after President Trump spewed divisive, racist rhetoric toward Democratic Reps. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Ayanna Pressley, Ilhan Omar, and Ra…