Category : History

The Groveland Four case was a 1940s example of injustice toward young African American men falsely accused of raping white women. The Groveland Four were...

The 1953 wedding of Jacqueline Bouvier and then-Sen. John F. Kennedy was so perfect it is still being talked about more than 65 years later....

By Mehrsa Baradaran The Constitution is riddled with compromises made between the North and South over the issue of slavery — the Electoral College, the...

By Mehrsa Baradaran At the start of the Civil War, only states could charter banks. It wasn’t until the National Currency Act of 1863 and...

Cotton produced under slavery created a worldwide market that brought together the Old World and the New: the industrial textile mills of the Northern states...

This powerful and provocative thesis was popularized in Matthew Desmond’s 2019 essay for The New York Times 1619 Project. It argues that the ruthless efficiency,...

By Tiya Miles While “Main Street” might be anywhere and everywhere, as the historian Joshua Freeman points out, “Wall Street” has only ever been one...

In the American South before the Civil War, white women couldn’t vote. They couldn’t hold office. When they married, their property technically belonged to their...

In September of 1861, the U.S. Coast Survey published a large map, approximately two feet by three feet, titled a “Map showing the distribution of...