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
A recent archaeological study in southern Iraq is redefining the history of the Zanj rebellion, a massive uprising that shook the Abbasid Caliphate between 869 and 883 CE. For centuries, it was recorded in the accounts—mostly written by medieval chroniclers like Al-Tabari and Al-Mas’udi—that the rebellion was a disaster that crippled the Basra economy and […]| Archaeology News Online Magazine
President Trump declared “The Smithsonian is OUT OF CONTROL,” but what’s awry, writes a constitutional scholar, is forgetting American history. The post Slavery Was Bad and Must Be Remembered appeared first on Washington Monthly.| Washington Monthly
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
Author’s note: I wrote this piece when I was painting John Brown’s portrait back in 2012. It was my attempt to sort out the complex aspects of his character and clarify my attraction to legacy, my admiration for his fierce courage and commitment despite his darker reputation. Once the portrait was completed, I set these […]| Americans Who Tell The Truth
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
this narrative is about our recent visit to the Legacy Museum, the Freedom Monument Sculpture Park and National Museum of Peace and Justice.| ADR
On a summer day in 1862, a government employee named George Boutwell took the podium in front of the U.S. Capitol before 10,000 people. He was one of 10 speakers… The post George Boutwell, Forgotten Civil Rights Pioneer appeared first on New England Historical Society.| New England Historical Society
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
Calvin Schermerhorn— “I felt no real safety South of Canada,” Henry Goings recalled as he gazed at Canada across the Detroit River, “for there is none to the colored man... READ MORE| Yale University Press
Today’s Muster features an interview with Michael Allen, a retired National Park Service official. Over the course of his nearly four decade career, Allen has played a pivotal role in how several Civil War Era sites have reshaped their interpretative vision of the past. More recently, he has played a critical role in the creation … Read More Read More| The Journal of the Civil War Era
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
In 1985, Daniel Jordan—a Ph.D. in history from University of Virginia—became president of the Thomas Jefferson Foundation, which owns and runs Monticello. He would preside over Monticello for the next 24 years, during which time Thomas Jefferson’s life and legacy would be radically transformed through information made readily available by the Thomas Jefferson Foundation.| Abbeville Institute
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
Benin bronzes should be entrusted to descendants of the enslaved Thank you for your editorial on the Benin bronzes (“At the Museum of Fine Arts, a chance for justice,” April 27). However, calling f…| Restitution Study Group
A walk in my suburban neighborhood as well as a peak at our own azaleas in bloom yields a revelation. Whatever chaos, uncertainty, fear and bad news overwhelms us, there is this: Finally, at long last, it is Spring. They say this season is a time of renewal, or rebirth,…| Eugene L. Meyer
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
The Sunday Bulletin's editorial on Math 6, 1966 was carefully crafted. Headlined "The Winds of Doctrine," it introduced a ten-part series "The Left and The Right -- A View from Within." New to the Philadelphia paper, my first assignment was to "join" the antiwar movement as an "undercover" reporter, while…| Eugene L. Meyer
Shortly after the Senate adjourned on May 21, Congressman Preston Brooks of South Carolina. attacked Sumner, yelling out, “I have read your speech, a libel on South Carolina.” and began slamming hi…| Historic Ipswich
(This story was made possible by research conducted by Christopher Challender Child and Marblehead historian Bob Booth.) In 1764, Marblehead’s Second Congregational Church’s minister, S…| Historic Ipswich
San Chenn Monthly Newsletter Each month, Whitney Plantation historians produce a newsletter that’s devoted to the history of this place where more than 350 enslaved people lived and worked the land. Powered By EmbedPress| Whitney Plantation
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
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 to newly freed slaves, and it was astonishingly radical for| Jax Examiner
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
The story of the Clotilda is another chapter of Alabama where the state punished the victims and helped the criminals escape.| Alabama Reflector
“De only Ku Klux I ever bumped into was a passel o’ young Baltimore Doctors tryin’ to ketch me one night an’ take me to de medicine college to ’periment on me. I seed dem a laying’ fer me an’ I run…| Phenderson Djèlí Clark
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
What we now know as Memorial Day began as "Decoration Day" in the immediate aftermath of the U.S. Civil War. It was a tradition initiated by former slaves to celebrate emancipation and commemorate those who died for that cause.| Liberation School – Revolutionary Marxism for a new generation of fighters
The United States Constitution of 1787 gave many Americans pause about the powers that the new federal government could exercise and how the government's leadership would rest with one person, the president. The fact that George Washington would likely serve as the new nation’s first president calmed many Americans’ fears that the new nation was| Ben Franklin's World - A Podcast About Early American History
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
If anyone was ever in any doubt about the iniquities of the Apprenticeship scheme that followed the apparent abolition of slavery in the British colonies this little book lays out in graphic detail just how much more dreadful things became for those who had been enslaved. I say ‘apparent abolition’ because although no-one was now … Continue reading The Iniquities of Apprenticeship» The post The Iniquities of Apprenticeship appeared first on A Parcel of Ribbons.| A Parcel of Ribbons
“I just think goodness is more interesting. Evil is constant. You can think of different ways to murder people, butContinue Reading| Nest of Abolitionists
As we celebrate Black History Month, it’s a good time to remember Carter G. Woodson, who is known as the Father of Black history and who in 1926 created the forerunner of Black History Month—Negro History Week. At the time, the idea that African Americans might have a history worth preserving and studying was radical. Read more about: Remembering the Father of Black History| Encyclopedia Virginia
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
By Nancy Spannaus Jan. 7, 2021—Among Presidents and statesmen in the United States, John Quincy Adams[1] is well known as one of the most consistent and active opponents of slavery in our history. …| American System Now
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
