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… Upon the Altar of the Nation is a provocative and disturbing moral history of the Civil War. It is not a … conduct. From the outset religious leaders in the North and South helped shape the conduct of the war by imbuing their … of Southern cities. Stout only briefly mentions the rape of African American women and the execution of African American …

… November 4, 2008, after months of hard-hitting campaigning and nationwide discussions on the need for change, the United States elected an African American for President.  The campaign and subsequent … city at a moment when civil rights was viewed largely as a Southern issue.  Although he was not a well-known leader of …

… Party’s nomination for president. Fulani’s announcement and Buchanan’s acceptance of her endorsement has drawn sharp … voters who have seldom seen eye-to-eye in the voting booth: African Americans and working-class whites. While African … in the new territories. Populists in the 1890s brought Southern black and white farmers and laborers together in …

… The wars in Vietnam and Iraq differ in major respects, but U.S. policy in both … For that reason, the intervention in Iraq, like that in South Vietnam, seems almost certain to end in failure. … needs; the problem is that so few Iraqis seem to agree. South Vietnam’s governments also had serious problems. The …

… Proclamation, President Obama’s declaration that gay and lesbian Americans deserve a right to marry is a historic … of white Northerners (and perhaps more than a few white Southerners) on slavery. Northerners understood that the … no practical authority. At this time he still encouraged African-American emigration to Liberia. Nevertheless, the …

… era of women's activism, the Women's Movement of the 1960s and 70s. In the wake of World War II, the revived women's … women's rights, including advocating for workplace justice and pushing for reproductive freedom. Today, we discuss the … activists like Betty Friedan, Frances Beal, Gloria Steinem, and Shirley Chisholm, but also the deep divisions among …

… Though restaurants and their customers use such words as “traditional,” … from the distinct culinary traditions of the people of the Southwest whose desire for dishes like chili and tacos … avocados are a global conflict commodity comparable to Africa’s so-called blood diamonds. Regional Mexican Fare: …

… Which Martin Luther King Jr., will we honor this year?  The Southerner who broke the back of legalized segregation?  Or … what he called “the giant triplets of racism, materialism, and militarism” throughout the nation, North and South? Unless we give both sides their full due, we will be …

… From Plague to Influenza and HIV, learn about the history of global pandemics in order to better understand the current coronavirus pandemic, a panel discussion … the Black Sea in the late 1340s, where it spread as far as southern England in one year. Traditionally it has been …

… us from the traditions of the past.   Charles Darwin and Abraham Lincoln were exact contemporaries. Both were … the Civil War and the emancipation of roughly four million African American slaves; the other initiated by Darwin’s … abolitionists. Exposed to slavery during his trip to South America, Darwin wrote, “It makes one’s blood boil.” He …

… squad after being told, “If you win, you die.” Tommie Smith and John Carlos raising gloved hands in the Black Power … the 2014 Sochi Olympics. The role of sport in dismantling South Africa’s apartheid regime and the 2010 World Cup in putting … where sport played an enormous role in visibly ostracizing South Africa.   Dr. Steven Conn  Which in turn, when South …

… action against Iraq. Sadly, most members of the House and Senate appear ready to acquiesce, eager to support a … Over the next decade, Ho frustrated American designs in Southeast Asia. By 1964, communist guerrillas, aided by the … on the verge of toppling the pro-United States regime in South Vietnam. Americans in the early 1960s lived in an …

… constituted an “empire.” Benjamin Madley, Jeffrey Ostler, and others saw “genocide” in the destruction of native … of some contemporary Apache groups in using the term ‘Southern Apache’ instead. This is in recognition of the fact … servants and slaves, including other Indians and enslaved Africans, helped shape the creation of ‘chosen’ families in …

… war's fundamental cause—slavery—is obscured in mythmaking and selective memory. It's time we get it right. Only by … economics? Of course, but what was the foundation of the South's economy? No matter how one cuts it, the unequivocal … slavery, there would have been no war between North and South—period.   This fact was vividly clear to the men who …

… new book, After Abolition . Between the seventeenth and nineteenth centuries, millions of Africans were transported across the Atlantic to death or … an Anti-Slaving Squadron to catch slavers off the West African coast, many of the ships they confiscated were …