Editorials and Commentary

Featured Editorials and Commentary:

* ”The Case for a Third Reconstruction,” The New York Review of Books, February 3, 2021

* ”What this 18^th Century Poet Reveals about Amanda Gorman’s Success,” CNN February 1, 2021

* “Why Kamala Harris Matters to Me,” The New York Times, August 12, 2020.

* “The 2020 Election Surpasses all Before It, Except One,” CNN, October 28, 2020.

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* “Is this a Coup? We Asked a Variety of Humane, Thoughtful People and also Henry Kissinger” Mother Jones November 13, 2020.

* “Be Optimistic!” After Bitterly Divided Election, What’s Next for America” CNN, November 9, 2020.

* “Harris Has the Potential to Change the Face of U.S. Politics,” Politico, November 7, 2020.

* “Take Them Down,” Flashpoint, UConn Magazine October 14, 2020.

* “As a Civil War Historian, I am Appalled,” CNN, August 11, 2020.

* “Donald Trump, Meet Your Precursor,” The New York Times, November 29, 2019.

* “The Long History of American Slavery Reparations” The Wall Street Journal, September 20, 2019.

* “The New Fugitive Slave Laws,” The New York Review of Books July 17, 2019.

* “What Happened the Last Time a President Chose America’s Enemies over Its Friends,” CNN, July 27, 2018.

Listed as one of the most popular op eds on CNN for 2018

* “Heather Heyer is Part of a Long Tradition of White Anti-Racist Activists,” The Washington Post, August 16, 2017.

Reprinted in The Denver Post, August 16, 2017.

Reprinted, The Morning Call, August 19, 2017.

Reprinted, Worcester Telegram & Gazette, August 21, 2017.

* Today’s Eerie Echoes of the Civil War,” The New York Review of Books, March 6, 2018.

* ”Frederick Douglass’ Radical Abolitionism for Our Times,” The North Star March 4, 2019. 

* “First as Farce, and Then as Tragedy,” Jacobin, December 4, 2018.

* “How Confederate History Looks in the Shadow of Charlottesville,” CNN, August 13, 2018.

* ”9 Books to Read for Black History Month According to Scholars,” Time February 15, 2018.

* “Making Andrew Jackson Great Again?” History News Network, January 7, 2018.

* “Alabama Makes a Noble Historical Turn, As It has Many Times in Its History,” New York Daily News, December 14, 2017.

* “We Don’t Think Michelle Jones Can Change Because We See Black Moms as Monsters,” The Washington Post, September 21, 2017.

* “What those Monuments Stand For,” New York Daily News, August 20, 2017.

* “Civil War Revisionism Still Shames America,” New York Daily News, May 4, 2017.

Reposted by the Zinn Education Project, May 5, 2017.

* “Silencing Elizabeth Warren: Gag Rules Have a Long, Dark History,” CNN, February 9, 2017.

* “It Feels like the Fall of Reconstruction,” The Huffington Post, November 22, 2016.

Reprinted in the Charleston Gazette-Mail, December 4, 2016.

* “The Year of the American Woman?” The Huffington Post, September 13, 2016.

* “The U.N. is Commemorating Haiti’s Role in Ending the Slave Trade. Here’s Why.” Time, August 23, 2016.

* “US Law has Long Seen People of African Descent as Fugitives,” Aeon, August 19, 2016.

* “Clinton-Kaine Echoes History: A New Chapter in Epic NY-Virginia Relationship,” New York Daily News, August 11, 2016.  

* “The Emancipation Proclamation,” in “25 Moments that Changed America,” Time, June 30, 2017.  

* “What You Still Don’t Know About Abolitionists,” Time, June 17, 2016.

* “The United States of Trumpistan?” The Huffington Post, May 27, 2016.

* “Abolitionists are American Democracy’s Unsung Heroes,” Yale University Press Blog, May 13, 2016.

* “Slavery on Screen,” Dissent (Spring 2017): 16-20. 

* “Was Harriet Beecher Stowe an Abolitionist?” We’re History, April 14, 2016.

* “Senator Sanders’ Campaign is as American as Apple Pie,” The Huffington Post, January 29, 2016.

* “The Long and Proud History of Charleston’s AME Church,” The Huffington Post June 19, 2015.

Reprinted in the Charleston Syllabus (Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2016): 69-70.

* “The Untold History Beneath ’12 Years’”: NYC’s Sordid History,” New York Daily News, March 2, 2014.

* “The Forgotten Emancipationists,” Opinionator-Disunion, The New York Times, February 24, 2013.

* “Lincoln Again” History Workshop Online, February 24, 2013.

* “Is the Modern GOP a “Relic of Barbarism?” History News Network, October 1, 2012. 

* “The Strange Victory of the Palmetto State,” Opinionator-Disunion, The New York Times, February 5, 2011.

* ”South Carolina’s Secession at 150,” The Huffington Post, December 20, 2010.

* “The Republican Punking of America,” The Huffington Post, August 25, 2009.

* “The Grand Old Party of Secession,” The Huffington Post, May 8, 2009.

Reprinted in The Daily Hampshire Gazette May 15, 2009.

* “We are all Americans in the Age of Obama,” The Huffington Post, January 28, 2009.

* “Will Obama be FDR to McCain’s Hoover?” History News Network, November 3, 2008.

* “Sarah Palin and the Betrayal of American Women,” The Huffington Post, September18, 2008. 

* “Is Obama Lincoln to Hillary’s Seward?” The Huffington Post, April 29, 2008.