
In the Shadow of Slavery
Merging memoir, travelogue, and history, Clint Smith evokes the horrors of slavery.
How the Word Is Passed: A Reckoning with the History of Slavery Across America
by Clint Smith
February 24, 2022 issue
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In the Shadow of Slavery
Merging memoir, travelogue, and history, Clint Smith evokes the horrors of slavery.
How the Word Is Passed: A Reckoning with the History of Slavery Across America
by Clint Smith
February 24, 2022 issue
He Was No Moses
While he opposed slavery and southern secession early in his career, as president Andrew Johnson turned out to be an unsightly bigot.
The Failed Promise: Reconstruction, Frederick Douglass, and the Impeachment of Andrew Johnson
by Robert S. Levine
The Impeachers: The Trial of Andrew Johnson and the Dream of a Just Nation
by Brenda Wineapple
December 16, 2021 issue
When Slaves Fled to Mexico
A new book tells the forgotten story of fugitive slaves who found freedom south of the border.
South to Freedom: Runaway Slaves to Mexico and the Road to the Civil War
by Alice L. Baumgartner
May 13, 2021 issue
I Do, I Do, I Do, I Do…
Polygamy: An Early American History
by Sarah M.S. Pearsall
April 9, 2020 issue
The Popery Panic
Escaped Nuns: True Womanhood and the Campaign Against Convents in Antebellum America
by Cassandra L. Yacovazzi
Elizabeth Seton: American Saint
by Catherine O’Donnell
April 18, 2019 issue
Fine Specimens
‘The Afterlives of Specimens: Science, Mourning, and Whitman’s Civil War’ by Lindsay Tuggle
The Afterlives of Specimens: Science, Mourning, and Whitman’s Civil War
by Lindsay Tuggle
Drum-Taps: The Complete 1865 Edition
by Walt Whitman, edited by Lawrence Kramer
March 22, 2018 issue
The Slave Owners’ Foreign Policy
This Vast Southern Empire: Slaveholders at the Helm of American Foreign Policy
by Matthew Karp
June 22, 2017 issue
Our Ruinous Betrayal of Indians and Black Americans
Bind Us Apart: How Enlightened Americans Invented Racial Segregation
by Nicholas Guyatt
December 22, 2016 issue
The Commander of Civil War History
Embattled Rebel: Jefferson Davis as Commander in Chief
by James M. McPherson
The War That Forged a Nation: Why the Civil War Still Matters
by James M. McPherson
November 19, 2015 issue
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