Benjamin Quarles

With "Force and Freedom," Carter Jackson makes a stimulating and insightful debut which will have a major influence on abolition movement scholarship.

Recent books by Woody Holton and Alan Taylor offer fresh perspectives on early US history but overstate the importance of white supremacy as its driving force.

It erases the fact that, for the first 70 years of its existence, the US was roiled by intense, escalating conflict over slavery – a conflict only resolved by civil war.

Toward the end of his life, Frederick Douglass served briefly as U.S. ambassador to Haiti.

The project's editor falsifies the history of American history-writing, openly embracing the privileging of “narrative” over “actual fact.”