Slavery Abolition

The issue of Confederate symbolism has become sharply divisive. This should not surprise. The Confederacy was born of racism and slavery. But it was more, much more. And the opposing Union, so celebrated in victory, also was suffused with racism and supported slavery. The great, searing contradiction of America’s birth, and…

The New York Times’ 1619 Project has aimed at nothing less than a revolutionary reinterpretation of the entirety of U.S. history, “re-centering” African Americans as the sole banner-carriers of America’s principles, even as they have been ruthlessly smashed down, enslaved, and obliterated from memory by more numerous and more powerful whites.…

PAGE NOT FOUNDThank you for visiting apnews.com. The page you’re looking for has moved or no longer exists. Please use the search feature or the navigation menu to find the information you need.Read More

Key point: Even today, students study this debate and use their orator skills to sharpen each other intellectually. These debates helped make Honest Abe a national figure and set the stage for his rise to the Presidency. The two men facing each other across the debate stage at Ottawa, Illinois, on…

It isn’t an overstatement to describe The New York Times’ 1619 Project as a journalistic declaration of war against America. Many of the project’s historical claims are downright fabrications — but in the most decisive respect, that’s besides the point. The project’s leader, Nikole Hannah-Jones, has tried to brush off…

 Many comics historians and collectors reading this will be familiar with the name Holyoke Publishing Company (called that because of its Holyoke, Massachusetts facility) due to the printing and publishing company owned by Sherman Bowles, which made a brief but memorable contribution to golden age comics history around 1942-48.  During…

James Thornton Harris is a contributing editor to the History News Network. For more information see www.JamesThorntonHarris.com. “History makes what happened comprehensible by reducing events to a dramatic pattern and seeing them in a simple form,” wrote historian Johan Huizinga some one hundred years ago.   To establish dramatic patterns for their readers,…

Gimson’s Presidents: Brief Lives From Washington To TrumpAndrew GimsonSquare Peg £10.99Rating: Moving into the White House, which had just been built in the middle of a rutted field, America’s second president, John Adams, prayed: ‘May none but Honest and Wise Men ever rule under This Roof.’Alas, his wish was not…

Skip to comments. Think Trump is ‘outrageous?’ He’s nothing compared to these past presidents New York Post ^ | February 29, 2020 | Kyle Smith Posted on 02/29/2020 3:54:39 PM PST by karpov Unprecedented, unprecedented. Everything is unprecedented. Nothing like this has ever happened before. Except it pretty much has.…

Everybody occasionally wonders if they should bother to vote. To help out, we have quotes from 10 great minds explaining why voting, and participation in politics in general, is the right thing to do. Some of them will inspire you, some will scare you, and some are pretty funny. Very…