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Emancipation
June 11, 2024
Eric Herschthal
What If Reconstruction Didn’t End Till 1920?
Historian Manisha Sinha argues that the Second Republic lasted decades longer than most histories state and achieved wider gains.
February 23, 2024
Eric Herschthal
Harriet Tubman and the Most Important, Understudied Battle of the Civil War
Edda L. Fields-Black sets out to restore the Combahee River Raid to its proper place in Tubman’s life and in the war on slavery.
April 15, 2022
Eric Herschthal
A Reckoning With How Slavery Ended
Kris Manjapra’s new book, “Black Ghost of Empire,” examines the ways white slaveholders were compensated, while formerly enslaved people were not.
July 31, 2020
Nick Martin
Can Cities Do Reparations Alone?
Governments from Durham to Providence have launched racial equity initiatives, but the long work of restitution can’t stay a local matter.
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