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8 Key Laws That Advanced Civil Rights
by Mehrunnisa Wani The “peculiar institution” of slavery was abolished nearly a hundred years after the Declaration of Independence called...
The 1860 Compromise That Would Have Preserved Slavery in the US Constitution
by Farrell Evans Following Abraham Lincoln’s victory in the 1860 presidential election, 11 southern states seceded from the Union. Slavery...
7 Writers of the Harlem Renaissance
by Sarah Pruitt In the early 20th century, millions of African Americans migrated from the rural South to the urban...
Why FDR Faced His Own VP When Running for a Third Term
by Becky Little Franklin D. Roosevelt won elections for his first two presidential terms in landslides and went on to...
Call for Papers: Symposium on the 19th Century Press, the Civil War,...
Call for Papers Symposium on the 19th Century Press, the Civil War, and Free Expression November 3–5, 2022, via ZOOM...
Reviews in History
Review: Lincoln and the First Shot
Many historians agree that the shots that began the American Civil War occurred at Fort...