Category: Slavery

Hundreds of Southern towns and cities erected Confederate statues in the decades after the Civil War. Almost no statues or monuments marked the military service…

The 1619 project at the New York Times has another new podcast. This one looks at slavery and the birth of American music. This one…

Episode 2 is up of the New York Times new podcast series on slavery. You can listen to it here.

The new 1619 Project put out by the New York Times has both been incredibly popular and very controversial. The project observes the 400th Anniversary…

The New York Times’s series marking 400 years of slavery in America is titled “1619.” The series is drawing a lot of praise and some…

The New York Times’s new 1619 series offers a brief history of slavery that you may want to read. From the article: Sometime in 1619, a…

During the Civil War several education books were printed to to teach Confederate children the worldview of their elders. This book appeared in 1863. Below…

The New York Times continues its challenging series 1619 today with an article on the misteaching of slavery in American schools. You can find the article…

Illustration: Escaped slave John Brown The next installment of the New York Times’s new series commemorating the 400th Anniversary of the arrival of the first…

The New York Times has a promising new series called “1619” that marks the 400th Anniversary of the first African slaves being brought to Jamestown….