In recent years, scholarship on the history of slavery has leapt beyond academe to force a societal reckoning. This occasional series explores fresh questions scholars are asking as America confronts its history of human bondage.
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The Shadow of SlaveryThe Trouble With ‘Ole Miss’
The University of Mississippi has distanced itself from much of its Confederate past. Will it ever do the same with its popular nickname? -
BACKGROUNDER
A New Path to Atonement
Conflicts have mired the efforts of Georgetown University and the Jesuits to make amends for their involvement with slavery. Now a more lasting reconciliation may be in sight. -
Reckoning With Slavery
A ‘Long Overdue Conversation’: Do Universities That Benefited From Slavery Owe a Debt to Black Colleges?
The stories of the University of Mississippi and Tougaloo College highlight the stakes in a national debate. -
Backgrounder
The Scholars Behind the Quest for Reparations
They are propelling a reckoning with slavery’s legacy on campuses, in cities, at companies. What Hilary Beckles is doing represents the next step. It’s the marshaling of scholarship for a political aim: payback. -
The Chronicle Review
An Antidote for American Amnesia
Tiya Miles maps forgotten corners of slave history. -
The Chronicle Review
How Should We Memorialize Slavery?
A case study of what happens when research collides with public memory. -
The Chronicle Review
Buried History
How far should universities go to acknowledge their complicity with slavery? -
The Review
Stained by Slavery
How Craig Steven Wilder became a one-man truth-and-reconciliation commission on colleges and slavery. -
The Review
Shackles and Dollars
Historians and economists clash over the role slavery played in capitalism.
