Yellow Fever 1793

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Richard Brookhiser

Government and Civics, Science, Technology, Engineering and Math

Black Volunteers in the Nation’s First Epidemic, 1793

Spotlight on: Primary Source

Voting restrictions for African Americans, 1944

Spotlight on: Primary Source

Government and Civics

"The Escape of Robert Smalls: A Daring Voyage Out of Slavery"

Video

Lincoln and Abolitionism

Essay

Douglas L. Wilson

Pop Music and the Spatialization of Race in the 1990s

Essay

Mark Anthony Neal

The Contentious Election of 1876

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Michael F. Holt

Economics, Government and Civics

A More Perfect Union? Barack Obama and the Politics of Unity

Essay

Thomas J. Sugrue

Government and Civics

Frederick Douglass: From Slavery to Freedom

Essay

Steven Mintz

Government and Civics

A Poem Links Unlikely Allies in 1775: Phillis Wheatley and George Washington

Essay

James G. Basker

Government and Civics, Literature