Eric Herschthal

Eric Herschthal, a history doctoral student at Columbia University, has written for The New York Times, The Atlantic Monthly, The New Republic, and elsewhere.

COLDHEARTED

New York’s First Black Millionaire

Jeremiah Hamilton was a rapacious, double-dealing millionaire in 19th-century America. But Wall Street never let him forget he was black.

Eric Herschthal

HIDDEN HISTORIES

The American Revolution’s Losers Weren’t All British

African American slaves and Native American tribes were often collateral damage in the war for independence.

AD BY THE DAILY BEAST

HORRIBLE TRUTH

How Slavery Gave Capitalism Its Start

Capitalism in the U.S. owes much of its start to slavery, which in turn owed much of its success to government handouts.

Eric Herschthal

articles/2014/02/21/what-the-sex-lives-of-the-founding-fathers-reveal-about-us/140220-founding-father-sex-herschthal-tease_dd7shl

Breeched

Sex Lives of our Founding Fathers

Did Hamilton have gay sex? Was Jefferson in love with his slave? Each generation sees in the sex lives of the Founding Fathers what it wants to see.

Eric Herschthal

Bondage

How Blacks Freed Themselves

Who should get the most credit for ending slavery in America and Great Britain? A landmark new book argues that blacks did far more for their own emancipation than previously appreciated.

Eric Herschthal

Eric Herschthal

New York’s First Black Millionaire

The American Revolution’s Losers Weren’t All British

How Slavery Gave Capitalism Its Start

Sex Lives of our Founding Fathers

How Blacks Freed Themselves

Revolutionary Cross-Dresser

How America Was Made

The North’s Slavery Problem

The Original Slave Colony

Occupy Railroads