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Gerald Horne

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Banquo’s Ghost: The Contradictions of the American Revolution

A review of Joseph Ellis's reassessment of the Founding, arguing that slavery and Indigenous dispossession were central contradictions of 1776.

by Gerald Horne via The Nation
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on June 10, 2026
How Hollywood’s Black Friday Strike Changed Labor Across America

A 1945 union vs. studios battle set off broad right-wing hysteria—its lessons should resonate today.

by Gerald Horne, Anthony Ballas via Zócalo Public Square on November 9, 2023
The Dialectician

The paradoxes of C.L.R. James.

by Gerald Horne via The Nation
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on April 18, 2023
W.E.B. Du Bois’s Abolition Democracy

The enduring legacy and capacious vision of "Black Reconstruction."

by Gerald Horne via The Nation
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on May 3, 2022
Eric Williams and the Tangled History of Capitalism and Slavery

This historian and politician helped transform how several generations understood 18th- and 19th-century history.

by Gerald Horne via The Nation
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on October 5, 2021
New York City and the Persistence of the Atlantic Slave Trade

Even after slave trade was banned, the United States and New York City, in particular, were complicit in allowing it to persist.

by Gerald Horne via The Nation
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on February 24, 2021

The Counter-Revolution of 1836: Texas Slavery & Jim Crow and the Roots of U. S. Fascism

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Henry Arthur McArdle’s The Battle of San Jacinto (1895), depicting the final battle of the Texas Revolution of 1836.

The Long American Counter-Revolution

Historian Gerald Horne has developed a grand theory of U.S. history as a series of devastating backlashes to progress—right down to the present day.

by David Waldstreicher via Boston Review on December 8, 2022

Revolution and Repression: A Framework for African American History

Running through all of historian Gerald Horne's books are the twin themes of revolution and repression.

by Brandon R. Byrd via Black Perspectives on August 21, 2018

“Do You Understand Your Own Language?”

“Do You Understand Your Own Language?”

Black radicals read the Declaration of Independence.

by Robin D. G. Kelley via Hammer & Hope on June 24, 2026

Paul Robeson and others at an event honoring those killed in the Abraham Lincoln Brigade, February 26, 1941.

Paul Robeson: The Renaissance Man Vanishes

One of the most famous African Americans in his day, Robeson was marginalized for his political views.

by Al Ronzoni via CounterPunch on February 23, 2026

A group of indigenous Pacific Islanders forced to work on a sugar plantation, with a white overseer in the background.

How ‘Blackbirders’ Forced Tens of Thousands of Pacific Islanders Into Slavery After the Civil War

The decline of Southern industries paved the way for plantations in Fiji and Australia, where victims of “blackbirding” endured horrific working conditions.

by Shoshi Parks via Smithsonian Magazine on December 5, 2024

The Second Abolition

Robin Blackburn’s sweeping history of slavery and freedom in the 19th century.

by Manisha Sinha via The Nation on November 19, 2024

16-year-old Lino Rivera standing with police lieutenant Samuel J. Battle

Harlem in Disorder: A Spatial History of How Racial Violence Changed in 1935

A multi-layered, hyperlinked narrative that maps Harlem residents' challenges to white economic and political power, and the responses they provoked.

by Stephen Robertson via Harlem In Disorder on March 5, 2024

Slave shackles.

The Hidden Stakes of the 1619 Controversy

Critics of the New York Times’s 1619 Project obscure a longstanding debate among historians over whether the American Revolution was a proslavery revolt.

by David Waldstreicher via Boston Review on January 24, 2020

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