A Virginia Slave Schooled in Scotland Made a Bravehearted Bid for His Freedom
Jamie Montgomery failed, but his case set a precedent that ended chattel bondage in Scotland 12 years later
Zephaniah Kingsley: Champion of Free Blacks
Roving merchant and slave trader approved of bondage system but saw freedmen as linchpin
Online Exclusive: Scruffy Florida Seafarers Made Their Fortunes Salvaging Shipwrecks
Long before it became Margaritaville, Key West was a boom town built on bad news
Lincoln’s Second Inaugural Address Is a Speech for the Ages
With malice toward none, with charity toward all, the president seeks to binds the wounds of the nation
American History Reviews: The King of Tin Pan Alley
Composer's greatest gift was an ear for the simple and the sweet
How Southerners Became Sympathetic to Suicide
Self-destruction is seen as heroic instead of an act of cowardice
Explore Life Along the Levee
New Orlean, the Confederacy's largest and most commercially important city, fell to the Union in May 1862
ONLINE EXCLUSIVE: Colonial New England Got Filthy Rich Off the Slave Trade
For a century and a half, wealthy northerners built their fortunes off sugar, rum, and human misery
America’s Civil War Film Review: Hollywood Creates a Convincing Hero in “Harriet”
Underground Railroad's "Moses" is portrayed with determination and courage
ONLINE EXCLUSIVE: Liberia Was an Experiment Born From Fear and Ambition
Coalition of slaveholders and conservative abolitionists offered black Americans a land of 'liberty'
Field Notes: African-American Civil War Museum to Expand
News from the Civil War community
Vicksburg: The Campaign That Confirmed Grant’s Greatness
Obscure Union general learns that only hard, long fighting and logistics will win the war
American History Book Reviews: The Robber Baron Who Gave Us Silicon Valley
Leland Stanford bribed, stole, and murdered his way to fame and acclaim
Insight: A Historian Explains How Republicans Misjudged the Threat of Secession
David M. Potter's scholarship explains how the North saw Southern rhetoric as 'crying wolf'
Designing New Ways to Tell America’s Story
New Smithsonian museum director see her task as making democracy relevant
