C. Vann Woodward

The pre-Civil War North was a landscape not of unremitting white supremacy but of persistent struggles over racial justice by both Blacks and whites.

Objections to the appointment of Nikole Hannah-Jones to an academic chair are the latest instance of conservatives using the state to suppress "dangerous" ideas.

Faulkner’s chroniclers have to reconcile the novelist’s often repellent political positions with the extraordinary meditations on race, violence, and cruelty in his fiction.

The answer may lie in the ear of the beholder.

An interview with Sean Wilentz on Library of America's new collection of Richard Hofstadter's works.

“I ask: what’s been left out of the historical record of my South and my nation? What is the danger in not knowing?”

Social movements that have pushed for inclusion and equality in the South have often evaded or ignored the issue of Native land and sovereignty.

The ratification of the Fourteenth Amendment marked a turning point in U.S. history. Yet 150 years later, its promises remain unfulfilled.

In an age when the White House is being asked if slavery was a good or bad thing, perhaps we should take a look at the history of the history of slavery.

An interview with historian Charles B. Dew.

Americans should build this pivotal post–Civil War era into the new politics of historical memory.

During the late 19th century, blacks and whites in the South lived closer together than they do today.

A look back at the historian's work suggests that contemporary radicals may be all too invested in the myth of American consensus.