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Reuel Schiller, the author of Forging Rivals, describes how the legacy of slavery and Jim Crow gave rise to modern labor and employment discrimination laws.
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David Williams, the author of I Freed Myself, explains why the traditional picture of emancipation as an abolitionist movement with the Great Emancipator Lincoln at its helm isn't entirely correct—African American slaves played a key role in achieving their own freedom.
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In Slavery, Race, and Conquest in the Tropics, Robert E. May pits Lincoln's notorious opponent Stephen A. Douglas against abolitionist Frederick Douglass to examine the uncertain future of slavery not only in the US, but in Latin America as well.
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David F. Krugler's 1919, the Year of Racial Violence chronicles the deadly mob attacks that broke out from Chicago to Texas to DC that summer. In this excerpt from his book, Krugler explores the racial tensions that perpetuated the violence of the Red Summer.
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Laura Edwards, the author of A Legal History of the Civil War and Reconstruction, reveals the story of Bella Newton, an African-American woman who broke new ground by filing criminal charges against her white neighbor in 1869.
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On the occasion of President Obama's request to Congress for an "Authorization to Use Military Force" against ISIL, Brien Hallett, the author of Declaring War, laments the extra-constitutional quality of AUMF.
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Ethan J. Kytle, the author of Romantic Reformers and the Antislavery Struggle in the Civil War Era, reflects on how the abolitionist movement and the end of US slavery is represented—and remembered—today.
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Sarah Roth, the author of Gender and Race in Antebellum Popular Culture, tackles the largely unexplored question of how gender relations played into the depiction of African American men and white women in nineteenth century culture.
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