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Photo of the brick Baptist Church on South Carolina’s St. Helena Island.

Reconstruction Failed. Why?

by Carl Zebrowski9/12/202311/10/2023

Ranger Rich Condon explains how South Carolina’s Sea Islands provided a blueprint for Reconstruction success — but not enough people listened.

Riot at Lovejoy warehouse

With the Civil War Looming, National Newspapers Struggled to Defend the Power of the Press

by Stefan Lund8/21/20237/31/2023

Painting of Abraham Lincoln.

Lincoln in His Own Words: The 16th President’s Musings About ‘negro equality’

by Ross E. Heller7/11/20237/12/2023

Former slave arriving at Union encampment

In Dealing with Pro-Slavery Border States, This Union Colonel Tested Federal Limits When It Came to Emancipation

by Daniele Celano5/1/20234/19/2023

border-ruffians

Was ‘Bleeding Kansas’ Really That Violent?

by Jerry D. Morelock2/1/20232/1/2023

Will Smith’s ‘Emancipation’ Exposes the Corruption Wrought by Slavery

by Gordon Berg12/9/202212/8/2022

Beyond Slavery’s Shadow: Free People of Color in the South book cover and background art.

Book Review: Beyond Slavery’s Shadow / See How Free Blacks Survived and Fought Back

by James Baresel11/15/20224/30/2024

Before Literary Stardom, Frederick Douglass Faced a Life of Violence

by Gordon Berg11/7/202211/7/2022

Photo of George Downing with family

A 19th Century Black Success Story: The Downing Family

by Sarah Richardson8/16/20228/19/2022

Book Review: A Lynching at Port Jervis / Race and Reckoning in the Gilded Age

by Paul F. Bradley8/6/20224/30/2024