Charles Sumner

How a monument that championed black sacrifice in the name of emancipation was forgotten.

Contrary to the image of the kneeling slave, Black abolitionists did not wait passively for the "Day of Jubilee." They led the charge.

The overthrow of slavery in the US was a battle waged and won in the field of democratic mass politics; a battle that holds enormous lessons for radicals today.

Betrayal. Paranoia. Cowardice. We've been here before.

From the Framers on, Americans have understood our fundamental law to oppose ownership of persons.

Was the impeachment of Andrew Johnson a matter of national principles? Or an affair of pragmatic politics?

How one of America's original Bernie Bros became an outspoken critic of the left.

How the territory became the frontline of the battle for abolition.

Reading recommendations from a lifelong education.

Du Bois's ideas about the environment — and how Jim Crow shaped them — have gone relatively unnoticed by environmental historians.

A hundred and fifty years after its ratification, some of its promises remain unfulfilled—but one day it may still be interpreted anew.

For white southerners, honor had little to do with justice.

Why we must ask not only what stories our landscapes of commemoration tell, but also what stories they leave out.

Ulysses S. Grant was overlooked by historians and underestimated by contemporaries. H.W. Brands reevaluates Grant’s presidency.