William Lloyd Garrison (1805–79) was one of the most militant and uncompromising abolitionis...

By 1840, American politics was a paradox—unprecedented freedom and equality for men of European d...

Two epochal developments profoundly influenced the history of the Atlantic world between 1770 and...

Throughout the Civil War era, no other white American spoke more powerfully against slavery and f...

Throughout the Civil War era, no other white American spoke more powerfully against slavery and f...

Postracial America? argues that the notion of “postracial” does not begin with...

This edited collection evaluates the election and its outcome by analyzing the campai...

Winner of the 2024 Wiley-Silver Prize in Civil War HistoryFinalist for the 2024 Gilder Lehrman Li...

Winner of the 2024 Wiley-Silver Prize in Civil War HistoryFinalist for the 2024 Gilder Lehrman Li...

Revised to include important new scholarship, James Brewer Stewart's eloquent survey of the aboli...

Before the Civil War, slaveholders made themselves into the most powerful, most deeply rooted, an...

Throughout the Civil War era, no other white American spoke more powerfully against slavery and f...