History Resources

Black Voices in American Historiography

Douglass and the US Constitution: The Dred Scott Decision

Essay

Randall Kennedy

Government and Civics

"The Seed Time of a Great Harvest": Douglass Recalls Fellow Abolitionists

Essay

Quandra Prettyman

Frederick Douglass and the "Progress of American Liberty"

Essay

James Oliver Horton

Frederick Douglass on the Disfranchisement of Blacks in the South

Essay

Lucas Morel

Frederick Douglass: An Example for the Twenty-First Century

Essay

Noelle N. Trent

Constance Baker Motley: A Trailblazer in the Legal Profession

Essay

Gary L. Ford, Jr.

Government and Civics

Recalling the Bombing of Birmingham's Sixteenth Street Baptist Church

Video

From the President

Essay

James G. Basker

Eric Foner - "The Second Founding: How the Civil War and Reconstruction Made the Constitution"

Video