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Monrovia – A group of diaspora and home-based Liberians are preparing for a historic pilgrimage to the Caribbean island bearing significant historical ties to Liberia.By Selma LomaxUnder the umbrella of The SANKOFA PILGRIMAGE TO BARBADOS, the trip is

I made the point last week that following the emancipation of enslaved Africans the issue of immigration was the focus of attention for planters and colonial officials. They were of the view that the future of the colony’s economy was tied up with the continuing cultivation of sugar under a plantation/estate system. With their expectation of a movement away from the estates they fixed their minds on immigration. They made this …

We Yanks don’t need to spend a ton of time searching around for unreal new things to feel guilty about.

<p>Three years since the public became aware of the seriousness of the COVID pandemic, a recent collection of essays turns the skills of historians toward reflection on grief, survival, and connecting understanding of the past to a better collective future.</p>

What dissident leftists have to say.

The American Revolution is often depicted as a struggle between the common man and the callous elite. Yet most of the famous American figures of the revolution were powerful landowners, with ownership over other human beings. A Duke University podcast revisits how contested ideas of "democracy" reverberate in American politics today.

Waste people. Rubbish. Clay-eaters. Hillbillies. Two new books that reckon with the long, bleak history of the country’s white poor suggest their plight shouldn’t have caught the rest of the country off guard.

Todd Gitlin, whose immersion in the student rebellions of the 1960s laid the foundation for his later work as a writer, a cultural historian, and both a voice and a

He earned his stripes in the antiwar movement of the 1960s. In his later years, he was often critical of his erstwhile kindred spirits.

Far from a partisan for free markets, the Founding Father insisted on the need for economic planning. We need more of that vision today. The Founding Fathers are a perennial source of both wisdom and controversy. Alexander Hamilton, the first U.S. Secretary of the Treasury, has taken pride of place in these public debates in recent years, thanks in part to Lin-Manuel Miranda’s musical and Ron Chernow’s 2004 biography. In this interview, Michael Busch speaks with journalist and economist Chr...