Reconstruction was sabotaged. But what if it hadn't been? ~humanities.history Article 1373 words 18 votes
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The Silk Road: Eight goods traded along the ancient network ~humanities.history Article 1322 words, published Jun 29 2023 7 votes
Americas’ first cowboys were enslaved Africans, ancient cow DNA suggests ~humanities.history Link 24 votes
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The troubling history of tipping in American restaurants ~humanities.history Article published Oct 15 2018 15 votes
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Little-known Black history comes to light in new documentary series ~humanities.history Article 1650 words 2 votes
The Malê Rebellion in Bahia: Brazil’s African Muslim uprising ~humanities.history Article 900 words, published May 19 2020 3 votes
What to the Slave is the Fourth of July? ~humanities.history Article 10 509 words, published Jul 5 1852 12 votes
History as end: 1619, 1776, and the politics of the past ~humanities.history Article 5656 words, published Jun 8 2021 6 votes
On Marx, Lincoln, slavery and socialism in the years following the Civil War ~humanities.history Article 2688 words 13 votes
In the decades before the American civil war, violence broke out in Congress too ~humanities.history Article 1485 words, published Oct 22 2018 7 votes
How Southern socialites rewrote civil war history ~humanities.history Video 6:56, published Oct 25 2017 3 votes
Ask Historians: How did Lincoln's political agenda on slavery change before and during the war? ~humanities.history Link 8 votes
The case for reparations: We've had 250 years of slavery, 90 years of Jim Crow, 60 years of separate but equal and 35 years of racist housing policy. Without addressing this, the US can't move on ~humanities.history Article 14 406 words, published Jun 3 2014 32 votes
The 1619 Project by the New York Times ~humanities.history Article 137 words, published Aug 14 2019 4 votes
The awkward questions about slavery from tourists in the US South ~humanities.history Article 2537 words 18 votes
On this day in 1791, the only successful slave uprising in history began ~humanities.history Article 3629 words 13 votes
Is it time for truth and reconciliation in the US? ~humanities.history Article 1255 words, published Feb 16 2014 9 votes
'Where was the Lord?': On Jefferson Davis' birthday, nine slave testimonies ~humanities.history Article 3748 words 7 votes
Archivists race to digitize slavery records before the history is lost ~humanities.history Article 1392 words 9 votes
Harvard sued by 'descendant of slave for profiting from photos' ~humanities.history Article 697 words 7 votes
The Confederacy was built on slavery. How can so many southern whites still believe otherwise? ~humanities.history Article 7325 words, published Nov 28 2018 20 votes
At 63, I threw away my prized portrait of Robert E. Lee ~humanities.history Article 3501 words, published Oct 23 2018 9 votes
Canada's slavery secret: The whitewashing of 200 years of enslavement ~humanities.history Article 1057 words, published Jun 28 2018 12 votes
Slavery's long shadow: The impact of 200 years enslavement in Canada ~humanities.history Article 1167 words 4 votes
I know why poor Whites chant Trump, Trump, Trump: From the era of slavery to the rise of Donald Trump, wealthy elites have relied on the loyalty of poor whites. All Americans deserve better ~humanities.history Article 8352 words, published Apr 1 2016 6 votes
The last slave ship survivor gave an interview in the 1930s. It just surfaced in the form of a new book ~humanities.history Article 727 words, published May 3 2018 3 votes