History Now Essay New York City’s African Burial Ground Michael L. Blakey Michael L. Blakey is the NEH Professor of Anthropology and American Studies and the director of the Institute for Historical Biology at the College of William and Mary. He is the editor, with Lesley M. Rankin-Hill, of The Skeletal... Appears in: 57 | Black Voices in American Historiography Summer 2020 49 | Excavating American History Fall 2017
History Now Essay Douglass the Autobiographer Robert S. Levine Literature Frederick Douglass published three autobiographies during his lifetime— Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, An American Slave (1845), My Bondage and My Freedom (1855), and Life and Times of Frederick Douglass (1881, 1892)—as... Appears in: 50 | Frederick Douglass at 200 Winter 2018
History Now Essay The Lion of All Occasions: The Great Black Abolitionist Frederick Douglass Manisha Sinha On February 24, 1844, the Liberator printed an admiring report on Frederick Douglass’s “masterly and impressive” speech in Concord, New Hampshire. The fugitive slave was the master of his audience. Douglass, the writer fantasized, was... Appears in: 50 | Frederick Douglass at 200 Winter 2018
History Now Essay Douglass, Lincoln, and the Civil War Chandra Manning “Here comes my friend Douglass,” exclaimed President Abraham Lincoln in the East Room of the White House after delivering his Second Inaugural Address on March 4, 1865. As he grasped the hand of the distinguished abolitionist and... Appears in: 50 | Frederick Douglass at 200 Winter 2018
History Now Essay Frederick Douglass and Booker T. Washington at the Tuskegee Institute, 1892: A Little-known Encounter Adele Alexander Featuring a passage from Adele Alexander’s book in progress, A Black Suffragist in the Jim Crow South: Adella Hunt Logan’s Epic Journey Author’s Introduction Most historians consider Frederick Douglass and Booker T. Washington the... Appears in: 50 | Frederick Douglass at 200 Winter 2018 57 | Black Voices in American Historiography Summer 2020
History Now Essay Frederick Douglass, Orator Sarah Meer Frederick Douglass was a great speaker before he was a great writer. Many African Americans were renowned as orators in the mid nineteenth-century, particularly preachers and anti-slavery lecturers. The most famous names include... Appears in: 50 | Frederick Douglass at 200 Winter 2018
History Now Essay From the Editor Carol Berkin 2018 is the 200th anniversary of the birth of an extraordinary American: Frederick Douglass. Orator and activist, champion of abolition and tireless worker for racial equality, Douglass stands, with Abraham Lincoln, as the conscience... Appears in: 50 | Frederick Douglass at 200 Winter 2018
History Now Essay From the Editor Carol Berkin Throughout the history of our country, being able to vote has been synonymous with enjoying a political voice. Although Americans from colonial times to the present have also expressed their views on policies, programs, and political... Appears in: 51 | The Evolution of Voting Rights Summer 2018
History Now Essay From the Editor Carol Berkin Welcome to the sixth issue of HISTORY NOW. I am pleased to announce that HISTORY NOW was recently selected by the National Endowment for the Humanities for inclusion on EDSITEment (http://edsitement.neh.gov) as one of the best online... Appears in: 6 | Lincoln Winter 2005
History Now Essay The 1965 Immigration Act: Opening the Nation to Immigrants of Color Tom Gjelten Government and Civics Americans might think their country has always been open to all, but until 1965 people who were not white or did not come from northern or western Europe were not welcomed as immigrants. Only with the passage that year of a new... Appears in: 52 | The History of US Immigration Laws Fall 2018
History Now Essay Immigrants and the Alien and Sedition Acts of 1798 Terri Diane Halperin Americans were on edge in the spring and summer of 1798. War and revolution were raging in Europe; Ireland was rebelling against England; and France was continuing its attacks on American ships. Although the Jay Treaty, which went... Appears in: 52 | The History of US Immigration Laws Fall 2018
History Now Essay The Dillingham Commission and the “Immigration Question,” 1907−1921 Robert Zeidel Government and Civics The Dillingham Commission played a pivotal role in the formation of American immigration policy, notably the establishment of general exclusion as an overarching principle. Created by Congress in 1907 as a compromise between... Appears in: 52 | The History of US Immigration Laws Fall 2018
History Now Essay “In the Name of America’s Future”: The Fraught Passage of the 1952 Immigration and Nationality Act Maddalena Marinari Government and Civics Senator Patrick McCarran (D−NV) was seething after Congress renewed the 1948 Displaced Persons Act in 1950. Incensed, McCarran wrote to his daughter: “I met the enemy and he took me on the DP bill. It’s tough to beat a million or more... Appears in: 52 | The History of US Immigration Laws Fall 2018
History Now Essay Expelling the Poor: The Antebellum Origins of American Deportation Policy Hidetaka Hirota Dehumanizing insults to foreigners, aggressive enforcement of immigration law by overzealous officials, and tragic family separation routinely appear in immigration-related news in the United States today. At the center of the present... Appears in: 52 | The History of US Immigration Laws Fall 2018