Slavery Abolition

One of Americans’ favorite pastimes is establishing their moral superiority by denouncing dead people. Every week brings news stories of some politician scoring points, or a university cleansing itself, by removing a name, a monument, or in some other way pur…

James Buchanan, wearing a top hat and cape-style overcoat, walks against the cold in front of his Wheatland mansion in Lancaster. His white-haired head is bent, and he wears a dejected expression. Its the early 1860s, and the 15th president of the United St…

James Buchanan, wearing a top hat and cape-style overcoat, walks against the cold in front of his Wheatland mansion in Lancaster. His white-haired head is bent, and he wears a dejected expression. Its the early 1860s, and the 15th president of the United St…

AMYGOODMAN: This is Democracy Now!, democracynow.org, The War and Peace Report. I’m Amy Goodman, with Nermeen Shaikh. NERMEENSHAIKH: The Trump administration is under fire for delaying plans to replace Andrew Jackson’s portrait on the $20 bill with abolition…

The RMS Titanic was notoriously marketed as unsinkable because it featured sixteen internal watertight compartments. If its hull sprang a leak at any one spot, doors would automatically shut and contain the water. If no more than two, or in some cases four, c…

On Saturday's PoliticsNation show, MSNBC host Al Sharpton presided over a discussion of the Donald Trump administration delaying the release of the new $20 bill replacing President Andrew Jackson's image with iconic anti-slavery activist Harriet Tubman. Obvi…

By Oladeinde OlawoyinPresident Muhammadu Buhari is a likable human. The near-general consensus of those who have met him is that the man exudes a certain child-like atmosphere of innocence and simplicity that endears him to many people in informal conversatio…

Andrew Johnson (December 29, 1808 – July 31, 1875) was the 17th President of the United States, serving from 1865 to 1869. Johnson became president as he was vice president at the time of the assassination of Abraham Lincoln. A Democrat who ran with Lincoln o…

Its clearly an understatement to say Jon Voight considers President Trump a national treasure. The outspoken actor praised Trump as the greatest president since Abraham Lincoln in an effusive video shared to Twitter on Friday evening. People of the Republic…

If you’re surprised that the issue of reparations for black Americans has taken so long to resolve, blame the president. President Andrew Johnson. As the Civil War wound down in 1865, Gen. William T. Sherman made the promise that would come to be known as “4…