Slavery Abolition

By Lambert Strether of Corrente. Patient readers, lots of political events over the weekend, but my connection was tooth-grindingly slow, and so I’ll have a bit more shortly. –lambert Politics “But what is government itself, but the greatest of all reflect…

by Adam H. DombyOn Friday, Haley declared the Confederate flag was “hijacked” by the racism of a single white supremacist terrorist in 2015, and that before then, “people saw it as service, sacrifice and heritage.”

When 18-year-old Stephen A. Schwarzman, the son of a Philadelphia dry-goods store owner, entered Yale in 1965, he took his meals, like all freshmen, in the Commons, a vast, baronial dining hall in a cluster of beaux-arts colossi that the university had constr…

When 18-year-old Stephen A. Schwarzman, the son of a Philadelphia dry-goods store owner, entered Yale in 1965, he took his meals, like all freshmen, in the Commons, a vast, baronial dining hall in a cluster of beaux-arts colossi that the university had constr…

Traders, throughout history, have sought new markets and been natural globalisers. Traders, producers and consumers, all parties gained from trade. Spices from India were so valuable in Europe that the voyage of Christopher Columbus to find a shorter sea rout…

Several countries are boycotting the Nobel ceremony to protest the Academys choice to award the literature prize to Peter Handke. The Austrian author has been criticised for his stance on the wars in former Yugoslavia and on late Serbian leader Slobodan Milo…

In The Field of Blood: Violence in Congress and the Road to the Civil War, Joanne Freeman examines the increase of violence in the US Congress experienced from the 1830s to 1861 in the build-up to the US Civil War, a period that witnessed the rise of the mass…

Since the founding of America centuries ago, Americans have been a pervasively religious people. What is the theological and ethnic diversity and enduring strength of American religion in general, and Christianity and evangelical faith in particular? How have…

The United States is ripe for secession. Across the world, established states have divided in two or are staring down secession movements. Great Britain became a wee bit less great with Irish independence, and now the Scots seem to be rethinking the Act of Un…

Headline from the New York Herald, Dec. 7, 1865, announcing the end of slavery with the ratification of the 13th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution.  (Photo: Library of Congress) Today is Dec. 6. On this date: 1790 Congress moved to Philadelphia from New …