Slavery and the Making of American Capitalism
From the 1790s to the 1860s, enslavers moved 1 million people from the old slave states to the new.
The KKK glorified as Confederacy grows in the South
As Southern whites sink into economic despair, more and more are retreating into a fictional past.
Abe Lincoln; flip/flop president
Imagine, if you will, that television existed in 1864 and Democratic candidate George McClellan and his allies used modern methods to take down Honest Abe at the height of the…
Stalin Invented ‘American Exceptionalism’
The phrase is often attributed to Alexis de Tocqueville, but the real author was the Soviet dictator -- and it wasn't a compliment.
On This Day: October 23, 1864
On this day in 1864, Confederate General Sterling Price's raid on Missouri nearly turns into disaster when his army is pinned between two Union forces at Westport, Missouri,