Learning from the Legal Culture of Gradual Emancipation, or, Misled by the Thirteenth Amendment
For some historians, the recurrent debates about the relationship of our “Framers” to slavery and…
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Back to the Future: Can Trump Win with Law and Order Like Nixon in 1968?
Michael W. Flamm is professor of history at Ohio Wesleyan University. He is author of…
Public Historians: Trained for Pokémon Go?
Park guides at the Lincoln Home National Historic Site, in Springfield, Illinois, are fond of…
The Historical Stage Is Set for a Woman to Be Elected President
As the Democratic Party becomes the first major U.S. political party to nominate a woman…
Suffragette
The movie Suffragette is the first feature film dramatically depicting the monumental struggle for women’s…
There’s Nothing New about the “New Slavery”
About 45.8 million people in 167 countries live in some form of modern slavery according…
#CharlestonSyllabus
Could you briefly describe your book and how you created it? Keisha N. Blain: The…
Black and White in the Free State of Jones
I’ll confess: I was fully prepared to be disappointed with the recently-released Free State of…
Free State of Jones Capsizes Lost Cause Myths
Reconstruction is perhaps the least understood period in American history, a distinction that has been…
The Paradox of Gun History
I recently completed a book on the history of the gun industry, culture, and the…