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Why Donald Trump is happy a Colorado judge called him an insurrectionist

Andrew Rudalevige - November 28, 2023

What happens when Trump's 2024 candidacy confronts the 14th Amendment?

Juneteenth started in Texas. So did this Black town. Whites destroyed it.

Danielle Phillips-Cunningham, Betty Kimble, and Alma Clark - June 15, 2022

Part 1: How formerly enslaved people created a community of their own.

The Emancipation Proclamation did not end slavery. Here’s what did.

Clarence Lusane - June 24, 2021

Two states — Delaware and Kentucky — still allowed slavery until the 13th Amendment was ratified, six months after Juneteenth.

Today’s election denialism and violence has a dark echo in the Jim Crow South

Kimberley S. Johnson - January 14, 2021

As in 1877, the U.S. has to decide whether it wants to be a multi-racial democracy

Lincoln: Best film ever about …. The House of Representatives!

- December 7, 2012

I suppose the competition isn't very stiff. (Even the rare

NYT columnist Douthat asks: Should we be disturbed that a leading presidential candidate endorses a pro-slavery position?

Andrew Gelman - August 29, 2011

A couple weeks ago I was reading the New Yorker