"On 22 June 1772 in a London courtroom ... the presiding magistrate, Lord Mansfield, had just made a ruling that sugge…"

"Ironically, the founders of the republic have been hailed and lionized by left, right, and center for—in effect…"

"The state of slavery is of such a nature that it is incapable of being introduced on any reasons, moral or political,…"

"I do in Virtue of the Power and Authority to ME given, by His MAJESTY, determine to execute Martial Law, and cause th…"

"What happened to the Negro in this country is not simply a matter of my memory or my history; it's a matter of Americ…"

"Historians usually focus their attention on the past of countries that still exist, writing hundreds and thousands of…"

"The object of this new American industrial empire, so far as that object was conscious and normative, was not nationa…"

"The treatment of the period of Reconstruction reflects small credit upon American historians as scientists. We have t…"

"The difference of development, North and South, is explained as a sort of working out of cosmic social and economic l…"

"To the extent that 1776 led to the resultant U.S., which came to captain the African Slave Trade—as London moved in a…"