Daniel Brook has written a book that goes a long way toward injecting thoughtfulness into popular notions of the history of race and racism in... Why did Reconstruction fail? It's a heady question for ...
Once upon a time in a country somewhat resembling this one, the Republican Party had a radical faction — and not because it believed in bizarre theories about election fraud or wanted to undermine ...
Reconstruction of the South, 1857. Library of Congress. January 1: President Abraham Lincoln signs the Emancipation Proclamation, declaring that the majority of the nation's slave population ...
Radical members of the South Carolina legislature, 1876. (Buyenlarge / Getty Images) There is an adage that historians write with (at least) one eye fixed on the present. So it is not surprising that ...
This is an edition of Time-Travel Thursdays, a journey through The Atlantic’s archives to contextualize the present and surface delightful treasures. Sign up here. Over the past few years, we at The ...
Reconstruction of the South, 1857. Library of Congress. January 1: President Abraham Lincoln signs the Emancipation Proclamation, declaring that the majority of the nation's slave population ...
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