Eric Herschthal, a history doctoral student at Columbia University, has written for The New York Times, The Atlantic Monthly, The New Republic, and elsewhere.
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The North’s Slavery Problem
Was slavery just as harmful in its benign form in the colonial North as it was in the... MORE
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The Original Slave Colony
Barbados presaged all British slave settlements.... MORE
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Occupy Railroads
Did journalists take on railroad tycoons—the Wall Street bankers of the 1900s—and win?... MORE
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What Did the Civil War Achieve?
A new history shows that antebellum black activists considered the abolition of slavery to be only... MORE
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A Writer In the Middle (East)
Novelist Sayed Kashua has become Israel's most prominent Arab Muslim author.... MORE
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Just Saying No
What do an Israeli soldier, a Houston whistle-blower, and a Swiss border-patrol officer have in... MORE
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3 Must Reads
This week: the story of James Madison’s slaves, a quixotic balloon trip to the North Pole, and the... MORE
