Civil War - AAIHS

Private, Public, and Vigilante Violence in Slave Societies

This essay is the first post in a four-part series concerning the triumvirate of violence in slave societies. The first part

How civil war in the South began again—indeed had never ceased; and how black Prometheus bound to the Rock of

As outrageous new events on the campaign trail assault us every day, it is becoming easy to accept the absurdities

Power does not enter the story once and for all, but at different times and from different angles. It precedes

This post is part of a new and recurring blog series I am editing, which announces the release of selected new