Frederick Douglass

Nikole Hannah-Jones on Opposition to the 1619 Project and Teaching Slavery in Schools

”What these bills make clear is that the fights over the 1619 Project, at their essence, are about power.“

 
By Nikole Hannah-Jones  February 10, 2023
American History

Kwame Dawes on The Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass

By Kwame Dawes  February 6, 2023
White Supremacy

How Ida B. Wells Campaigned to Expose the Lies Behind the Lynchings

By Philip Dray  June 2, 2022
Keen On

Linda Hirshman on How a Printer, a Prophet, and a Contessa Moved a Nation

By Keen On  February 10, 2022
In Conversation

Jabari Asim on Decolonized Souls, Black Love, and Writing the Past

By Jane Ciabattari  January 12, 2022
The Hub

Listen to Chadwick Boseman read Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass.

By Vanessa Willoughby  November 29, 2021
In Conversation

Myriam J.A. Chancy on Writing Haiti and Honoring Its Local Realities

By Jane Ciabattari  October 5, 2021
American Presidents

On the Racism of Andrew Johnson, Self-Identified White Ally and “Your Moses”

By Robert S. Levine  August 24, 2021
Education

On the Self-Education of Frederick Douglass, Malcolm X, and the Insatiable Quest for Literacy

By Brandon P. Fleming  June 18, 2021
Sci-Fi and Fantasy

The Only Living Black Man in New York: On an Overlooked, Subversive Sci-Fi Story by W.E.B. Du Bois

By Gabrielle Bellot  May 24, 2021
The Hub

This month, Frederick Douglass’s papers will be made available to the public.

By Walker Caplan  February 11, 2021
American History

Silencing Ida B. Wells Was
Never Going to Happen

By Michelle Duster  January 27, 2021
The History of Literature

‘There Are No Slaveholders Here.’ A Letter from Frederick Douglass

By History of Literature  January 25, 2021
American Politics

How Donald Trump’s Narcissism Masks His Extreme Insecurity

By Jerrold Post  November 18, 2019
New in Nonfiction

The Wrong Kind of Redemption: A Civil War That Never Ended

By Philip Dray  April 8, 2019
Excerpts

The Miraculous Power of Reading Aloud

By Meghan Cox Gurdon  January 17, 2019
Feature

Lit Hub’s Fall 2018 Nonfiction Preview: History & Biography

By Emily Temple  September 18, 2018
Deep Dive

How Politicians Use the Civil Rights Movement to Obscure Ongoing Racism

By Jeanne Theoharis  February 2, 2018
What to Read

The Most Anthologized Essays of the Last 25 Years

By Emily Temple  July 31, 2017
What to Read

A Running List of Good Books That Are Selling More Copies Because of Trump

By Emily Temple  February 6, 2017
Did you know?

Picturing Frederick Douglass

By James Sullivan  October 4, 2016
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