America’s First Red Scare
For many of its ideologues, a slaveholding Confederacy was meant to be a bulwark against radical politics of all stripes.
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Issue No. 18 | Summer 2015
Struggle and Progress
Marks the 150th anniversary of Union victory and the unfinished Second American Revolution. Contributions from Eric Foner, Heather Richardson, Adolph Reed, Bruce Levine, and many more.
Killing Reconstruction
During Reconstruction, elites used racist appeals to silence calls for redistribution and worker empowerment.
Not Waiting for Deliverance
Even before the Thirteenth Amendment was ratified, enslaved women struggled for the passage of the Enlistment Act of 1865 and their own emancipation.
Our Forgotten Labor Revolution
After the Civil War, workers struggled to make wage labor go the way of chattel slavery.
Race to Nowhere
For over a century, black elites have pushed improved “race relations” instead of redistribution as the solution to inequality.
Struggle and Progress
Eric Foner on the abolitionists, Reconstruction, and winning “freedom” from the Right.
The Cinematic Lost Cause
Why have so many films dealing with the Civil War embraced the Confederate struggle?
The Douglass Option
Frederick Douglass believed there was an alternative. So should we.
The James Brown Theory of Black Liberation
We shouldn’t reduce historical narratives solely to questions of black agency. It’s bad history — and can lead to even worse politics.
The Second American Revolution
The Civil War inaugurated a titanic revolution that within years brought slavery to an end and broke the planter class.