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Frederick Douglass

Pete Hegseth Is Trying to Resegregate the Military

April 8, 2026

An image of Pete Hegseth speaking to a group of military personnel

Stop Trying to Make the Humanities ‘Relevant’

Thomas Chatterton Williams

December 14, 2025

A close-up image of a statue, showing a pair of hands holding a book

Whose Independence?

Annette Gordon-Reed

November 2025 Issue

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I’m a High Schooler. AI Is Demolishing My Education.

Ashanty Rosario

September 3, 2025

Animation of books becoming blurred

The Annotated Frederick Douglass

David W. Blight and Frederick Douglass

December 2023 Issue

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Hate the Sin, Not the Book

September 6, 2020

Taking My Children to See Frederick Douglass

September 2020 Issue

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Frederick Douglass

June 28, 2020

An illustrated hand catching a butterfly

The Books Briefing: The Possibilities and Limits of Freedom

June 18, 2020

A woman holds a child.

The Books Briefing: Readjusting Our Understanding of History

June 12, 2020

After the Flood Recedes

David W. Blight

April 26, 2020

A dove flying across a blue sky

Frederick Douglass’s Vision for a Reborn America

David W. Blight

December 2019 Issue

Frederick Douglass