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Getty / The Atlantic One Week to Save Democracy
Lessons from Frederick Douglass on the tortured relationship between protest and change
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Trent Parke / Magnum After the Flood Recedes
Like Frederick Douglass, we can find inspiration for this moment in the oldest story of rebirth and renewal.
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Leah Millis / Reuters The United States Is Being Taught by Facts and Events
The pandemic is reminding Americans of the importance of government.
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Gerry Broome / AP A University’s Betrayal of Historical Truth
The University of North Carolina agreed to pay the Sons of Confederate Veterans $2.5 million—a sum that rivals the endowment of its history department.
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Diana Ejaita Frederick Douglass’s Vision for a Reborn America
In the immediate aftermath of the Civil War, he dreamed of a pluralist utopia.
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Library of Congress / Harper's Weekly The Battle for Memorial Day in New Orleans
A century and a half after the Civil War, Mayor Mitch Landrieu asked his city to reexamine its past—and to wrestle with hard truths.
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J.C. Buttre / Wikimedia Frederick Douglass, Refugee
Throughout modern history, the millions forced to flee as refugees and beg for asylum have felt Douglass’s agony, and thought his thoughts.
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Jonathan Ernst / Reuters Slavery Did Not Die Honestly
A century and a half after the Civil War, the process of Reconstruction remains contested—and incomplete.
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Randall Hill / Reuters Clementa Pinckney, a Martyr of Reconciliation
The preacher who tried to heal the wounds of Charleston fell victim to neo-Confederate ideology in the city where the Civil War began.
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Wikimedia Commons The Civil War Isn’t Over
150 years after Robert E. Lee surrendered at Appomattox, Americans are still fighting over the great issues at the heart of the conflict.
