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A Political Convert in the Long Shadow of the Civil War

Do Some Men Love Ancient Rome for the Wrong Reasons?

For America’s ‘Wild Girls,’ the Natural World Meant Freedom

Everyone Likes Reading. Why Are We So Afraid of It?

They Crossed Paths in Second Grade. Now They’re Best Sellers.

Can the Country Come to Terms With Its Original Sin?

Fleeing Slavery in a Top Hat and Cravat

The Uneasy Alliance Between Frederick Douglass and White Abolitionists

As a Black Bard of the South, Randall Kenan Toppled Monuments

Alex Haley Taught America About Race — and a Young Man How to Write

Was the Constitution Pro-Slavery? Jefferson Davis Thought So. Abraham Lincoln Didn’t.

The Controversy Over Statues and How We Commemorate the Past

A History of Modernity That Puts Africa at Center Stage

Albert J. Raboteau, Who Transformed Black Religious Studies, Dies at 78

The True Story of Robert E. Lee

Two of America’s Leading Historians Look at the Nation’s Founding Once Again — to Understand It in All Its Complexity

George Washington Slept Here? Then So Will Nathaniel Philbrick.

Need a Modern Update on American History? Meet Clint Smith.

Black Lives Drawn and Stories of Struggle Told Through Comics

For Literary Novelists the Past Is Pressing