The Awakening of the Negro
An educator’s controversial argument contends that blacks should advance by making themselves useful to whites.
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An educator’s controversial argument contends that blacks should advance by making themselves useful to whites.
A Southerner describes mounting racial tensions in the aftermath of Reconstruction.
Taking issue with Booker T. Washington, the author argues that blacks should attend college.
Du Bois gives voice to the aspirations of black Americans in the post-Civil War world.
In 1866, a journalist offered a scathing report on post-war life in the South.
A former slave urges Congress to grant black Americans the vote.
A leading black intellectual surveys the government’s efforts to aid the freed slaves.
A Confederate soldier from a plantation family provides a Southern perspective.
A reporter describes the rebels’ flight from Richmond, and Lincoln’s surprise visit two days later.
In 1861, the grandson of John Quincy Adams argued that slavery could still end without war.
In its second issue, The Atlantic urged readers to take a stand against slavery.
How a coterie of New Englanders—including the author—secretly funded the raid on Harpers Ferry
In 1861, an Atlantic editor captured the anxious mood on the home front.
An account of the author’s frantic search for his wounded son, who lived to become a Supreme Court justice
A Northern journalist records his visit to Charleston during the Fort Sumter standoff.
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The Ku Klux Klan worked to control guns. The Black Panthers pioneered the pro-gun movement. In the battle over gun rights, both sides have distorted history.
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