The Origins of Slavery
by Ira Berlin
Gain a greater understanding of the slave trade and the forced migration and diaspora of Africans.
The Civil Rights Movement
by Taylor Branch
Read an essay taking a bird's-eye view of the Civil Rights Movement.
The Civil Rights Movement: Major Events and Legacies
by James T. Patterson
Read an overview of the landmark moments of the Civil Rights Movement in the twentieth century.
A Place in History: Historical Perspective on Martin Luther King Jr. Day
by James Oliver Horton
Read about the historical context for the formation of the modern civil rights movement and leadership.
Different Perspectives on the Civil Rights Movement
by Anthony J. Badger
Read about the different ways historians have challenged the dominant narrative of the Civil Rights movement since the 1960s.
Connections Between the American and Haitian Revolutions
by Laurent Dubois
Understand the relationship between the Haitian Revolution and American Revolution.
Frederick Douglass: From Slavery to Freedom
by Steven Mintz
Read about Frederick Douglass from his childhood and youth as an enslaved person and his legacy as a leading abolitionist and equal rights advocate.
“I Too”: Langston Hughes’s Afro-Whitmanian Affirmation
by Steven Tracy
Explore Hughes' "I, Too" poem, its connection to Walt Whitman, and its role in affirming Black identity in America.
The Civil Rights Act and the Pursuit of Greater Freedom
by Charles W. McKinney
Read about civil rights protests in the small town of Wilson, North Carolina, in the 1960s.
Clarksdale: Myth, Music, and Mercy in the Mississippi Delta
by Shelley Ritter
Read about musician Muddy Waters, the blues, and the historical exhibits at the Delta Blues Museum in Clarksdale, Mississippi.
Robert Johnson and the Rise of the Blues
by Elijah Wald
Read about Robert Johnson and the rise and evolution of blues music.
“A Red Record”
1895
Read an excerpt from Ida B. Wells-Barnett’s analysis of lynchings in the US at the end of the nineteenth century.
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