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.
Government shutdown 180 years in the making
What the Tea Party Nullifiers are doing today, therefore, is merely a continuation of a long tradition of state-led nullification of federal law.
“Conservatives” opposed the revolution
It was Conservatives who wanted to keep the “traditional American value” of slavery
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.
On this Day: October 18, 1767
On this day in 1767, Charles Mason and Jeremiah Dixon complete their survey of the boundary between the colonies of Pennsylvania and Maryland