There’s not enough whitewash in the world to cover the ugliness of slavery, and it’s self-destructive for the government to try. The post You Can’t Learn from History If You Cover It Up appeared first on OtherWords.| OtherWords
There are certain skills you expect to need when working in multilateral diplomacy. Like negotiating. Public speaking. And building relationships with people from wildly different cultures, backgrounds, and coffee preferences. And then there are the surprise skills. Anyone who survived the last Human Rights Council session now carries a qualification in obstacle course orienteering, a diploma […]| Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office Blogs
Author’s Note: The views expressed in this article are those of the author and do not represent the official position or views of Baylor University. The Memorial to Enslaved Persons at Baylor University, a private Christian university in Waco, Texas, represents an effort to acknowledge and make amends for the university’s historical ties to the objectively […] The post Redemption for a Baylor Memorial appeared first on Minding The Campus.| Minding The Campus
As we follow the camera’s quiet, careful study, we observe—as Fred Moten reflects—that the slave ship also contains the means of its own undoing. The post “Radical Powers of Metamorphosis”: On Global Black Cinema appeared first on Public Books.| Public Books
We are excited to announce that Shantel A. George’s first book The Yoruba Are on a Rock: Recaptured Africans and the Orisas of Grenada is now available at Cambridge University Press. Congratulations, Shantel! [See brief description and chapter titles below.] Description: The Yoruba Are on a Rock focuses on the Africans who arrived in Grenada decades after the […]| Repeating Islands
I have read Chapter 5 of Mr. Bill O’Reilly and his co-author’s book, Confronting Evil: The Worst of the Worst. This chapter deals with Confederate General Nathan Bedford Forrest. Congratulations, gentlemen! You got almost every important fact wrong. First, the personal data. Forrest (who was called “Bedford”) was married, but he had only two children, although the authors were kind...| Abbeville Institute
A review of Larry A. McCluney, Jr., Paradox of Freedom: A History of Black Slaveholders in America (Scuppernong Press, 2025) While working several years ago, a Black friend informed me that she was taking her family to a reunion at a plantation in the Cane River area of Northwest Louisiana. As a longtime resident of north Louisiana, I understood something...| Abbeville Institute
One hundred and sixty-six years ago this weekend, abolitionist John Brown led a small band of 18 men to the federal arsenal town of Harpers Ferry at the confluence of…| Eugene L. Meyer
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James W.C. Pennington, a former slave, escaped, pursued education, became an advocate for Black rights, and challenged colonization ideas.| Scientific Inquirer
There is probably nothing as unrecognized and consequently misunderstood as the concept of slavery, at least as to the presentation by modernity media and so-called historical presenters.| Abbeville Institute
In 146 BC, the Mediterranean world must have been grasped by shock: two among the most important harbour cities in the world, Carthage and Corinth, were destroyed by the Romans in the course of the same year. ‘The two eyes of the sea coast were extinguished’, as Cicero, On the Nature of the Gods 3.91, … Continue reading empire, slavery, violence and Roman politics| Georgy Kantor's blog
The stars seem to have aligned and I am all set for a fall full of reading. Salem’s Centuries is in production (and out on January 6), my new saffron project hasn’t taken flight yet, and I have a course release for the semester. I’ve written two books in five years and now is the time […] The post Fall Reading 2025 appeared first on streetsofsalem.| streetsofsalem
In January 2023, Elena Wong Viscovich, Ed.D., sent an update and clarification on the post for Donaldina Cameron and the Ming Quong Home. Applicant Chu (Jew) Yee, 1914 Dr. Viscovich recently comple…| Chinese Exclusion Act Case Files
Lindsey Halligan, who is in charge of overhauling the museum system, would prefer to focus on the future.| The New Republic
Somehow this is still happening.| Upworthy
Randy Browne, an award-winning historian and Professor of History at Xavier University, joins us to investigate slavery's driving system.| Ben Franklin's World
Democracy in America by Alexis de Tocqueville was a heavy read, to put it mildly. Tocqueville visited the United States in 1831 to study the country. Initially, his focus was the prison syste…| Thoughts about leadership, history, and more
Gappah, Petina "Out of Darkness, Shining Light" - 2019 Of course, we all know about David Livingstone's search for the source of the river N...| momobookblog.blogspot.com
Let this sink in before you move on!| ADR
This is the first article in a new series for the Victorian Commons on Peter McLagan (1823-1900), by Dr Martin Spychal, Senior Research Fellow on our House of Commons 1832-1868 project. McLagan was…| The Victorian Commons
On May 15, 2025, the South’s largest surviving antebellum house burned to the ground, sparking debate over the legacy of American chattel slavery. Only a smoldering façade remained, inspiring celebration and memes shared on social media by people glad to see the symbol of human subjugation reduced to rubble and ashes. Completed in 1859, the 53,000-square-foot home [...]| The Raceless Gospel
No one disputes that the American Civil War was the bloodiest conflict in American history. But for decades historians and demographers have had difficulty pinpointing the exact number of casualties, especially on the Confederate side, due to poor record-keeping and records that were destroyed when Richmond fell at the end of the war. Read more about: How Deadly Was the Civil War in Virginia? The post How Deadly Was the Civil War in Virginia? appeared first on Encyclopedia Virginia.| Encyclopedia Virginia
This November marks the 249th anniversary of Lord Dunmore’s Proclamation, the effort by Virginia’s last royal governor John Murray, fourth earl of Dunmore, to arm enslaved Black people to fight the mounting Patriot rebellion. The idea of enlisting enslaved men to fight for the Crown had been brewing for some time, partly to play on fears of slave rebellion that regularly coursed through a colony where just over 40 percent of the population was held in bondage. Read more about: “Liberty ...| Encyclopedia Virginia
The Underground Railroad was an act of civil disobedience and defiance against the system of slavery. These are the top ten stops on the Underground Railroad.| Albion Gould
In 2023, my family began a life-changing journey—traveling to the Lenoir Plantation in Mississippi and the Darensbourg Plantation in Louisiana to uncover and document the stories of our ancestors. …| I AM AN EDUCATOR
As Black History Month comes to a close, I’m reaching out with an opportunity to not only reflect on history but to actively support its preservation. My family and I are working on a documentary f…| I AM AN EDUCATOR
We’ve all heard the story of the “40 acres and a mule” promise to former slaves. It’s a staple of black history lessons, and it’s the name of Spike Lee’s film company. The promise was the first systematic attempt to provide a form of reparations Read More ... The post The Truth Behind 40 Acres and a Mule first appeared on Jax Examiner.| Jax Examiner
John S. Jacobs was a fugitive, an abolitionist — and the brother of the canonical author Harriet Jacobs. Now, his own fierce autobiography has re-emerged.| www.nytimes.com
I have received several angry and critical emails from Trump supporters after my last article published yesterday, Trump Wants to Use the U.S. Military Against American Citizens who are “Sick Radical Left Lunatics”, warning me to stop publishing such articles. They are afraid that I might sway some people not to vote for him, or to not vote at all. So let me be perfectly clear here on this private news site that is free to the public to read, so there can be no doubt as to where I stand o...| Created4Health
Many modern Americans believe that slavery was a national unpardonable sin and that slaveholders were evil people unworthy of any respect or admiration. No one escapes this denunciation, including the Founding Fathers. They will give innumerable reasons why slavery was morally wrong, and while modern Western Civilization has generally accepted slavery as a morally reprehensible institution, judging historical actors by present moral and ethical standards destroys real historical inquiry and u...| Abbeville Institute
The following remarks were delivered at the fourth annual Jefferson Davis Conference at Mount Crawford, Virginia on June 27, 2024.| Abbeville Institute
Recently, I watched the Abbeville Institute’s Zoom conversation with Mike Kitchens on the loss of historic antebellum homes. Many have been lost to demolition or neglect. But there is another kind of loss threatening these historic sites. While it is important to discuss the people who built and kept these plantations afloat, some house museums are focusing disproportionately on the subject of slavery to the detriment of the original white inhabitants. But also because of how it is being ...| Abbeville Institute
Editors’ Note: We publish the editor’s introduction to the August 2024 issue of The Public Historian here. The entire issue is available online to National Council on Public History members and to others with subscription access. The three articles in this issue all grapple with interpreting a particular place over multiple time periods, often in conversation with each other, […]| National Council on Public History
It is common in Civil War circles to hear about the so-called “Lost Cause”, variously termed a myth or a narrative. Are those two terms synonymous? Let’s look. Dictionary.com defines myth as: “a traditional story, especially one concerning the early history of a people or explaining some natural or social phenomenon, and typically involving supernatural beings or events.”| Abbeville Institute
Dietrich Bonhoeffer was a twentieth-century German pastor and theologian, executed under the Nazi regime for his association with the 20 July plot to kill Hitler. He’s a martyr of the church,…| Death is a Whale
The Slave Name Roll Project aims to give back names of slaves. I "release the names" of enslaved I have found in the Stout family.| Ancestors in Aprons
The Birth of a Nation. Directed by Nate Parker. Written by Nate Parker and Jean McGianni Celestin. Release Date: October 7, 2016. Rarely have I walked into a movie with so much external context bleeding through the theater walls. Almost two weeks into The Birth of a Nation‘s run, and the film is more successful as […]| Civil War Pop
Far-right propagandist Elijah Schaffer has a track record of antisemitic commentary which has only grown more explicit. During a recent broadcast, Schaffer promoted the debunked claim that Jewish p…| Angry White Men
“I just think goodness is more interesting. Evil is constant. You can think of different ways to murder people, butContinue Reading| Nest of Abolitionists
2100 words Introduction Health can be defined as “a relative state in which one is able to function well physically, mentally, socially, and spiritually to express the full range of one’s uni…| NotPoliticallyCorrect
American slavery began 400 years ago this month. This is referred to as the country’s original sin, but it is more than that: It is the country’s true origin.| www.nytimes.com
Bill speaks at the Juneteenth celebration at Carnegie Hall on June 19, 2019. Juneteenth marks the day in 1895 when slaves in Texas learned they were free. The 19th of June became Juneteenth as every year growing numbers of African Americans recall with jubilation their own independence day.| BillMoyers.com
Want to understand systemic racism in America? Watch Bill Moyers in conversation with Michelle Alexander, Bryan Stevenson, Ta-Nehisi Coates, Maya Angelou, David Simon, and others. They offer a useful primer on the history of racism in the United States and its continuing impact.| BillMoyers.com
Edward Baptist, the author of The Half Has Never Been Told, has been claiming since the publication of his book that a putative post-Emancipation drop in overall agricultural productivity in the Am…| pseudoerasmus
The underlying claim in Edward Baptist’s “oral economic history” of slavery, The Half Has Never Been Told: Slavery and the Making of American Capitalism, is that slave owners, thr…| pseudoerasmus
Summary : New cultivars of cotton led to an unprecedented rise in the productivity of US southern cotton in the 60 years before the American Civil War. The Economist magazine may have said some stu…| pseudoerasmus
Retirement offers many opportunities: sleeping later in the mornings (haven’t figured that one out); learning to paint (not really interested); becoming fluent in a new language (没有); streaming mor…| After Class
Where some people see a place to exchange vows, all I see is the enslavement of my ancestors. Do they not know the history, or do they simply not care?| BuzzFeed News
