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Imperialism does massive and fatal damage abroad. The wars in Gaza and Iran are the latest bloodbaths for all to see. Less visible are the wages of imperialism at home -Plans to plunder the planet of its land, labor, and vital resources are afoot.

Their move had come because the elite enslavers who controlled those southern states believed that Lincoln’s election to the presidency in 1860 itself marked the end of their way of life.

Indigenous slavery, which lasted for centuries, has gone by many names. A new public history project wants us to see it for what it was.

How the cruelty of the Confederacy’s prison camps gave rise to the rules of war

How did the Mason–Dixon Line—meant to resolve a long-standing colonial border dispute—come to represent the US’s foundational divide between slavery and freedom?

By partnering with right-wing groups, Trump and his allies are exercising control over the retelling of history in hopes of shaping the political opinions of the youngest Americans, threatens to propagandize public education for generations to come.

Capitalism is a global economic system, so a proper chronicle of its rise to dominance has to examine the entire world, as historian Sven Beckert does in his massive new book, Capitalism: A Global History.

Thousands of private messages reveal young GOP leaders joking about gas chambers, slavery, lynching, and rape. This is what the GOP really is - this is the young GOP, starting with the New York Young Republicans - "I Love Hitler"

The web of Atlantic trading routes and solidarity among maritime workers, many of them Black, meant fugitive slaves’ chances of reaching freedom were better below deck than over land.