The Latest Breaking News from Frederick Douglass

For the first time, a press gallery on Capitol Hill is named after a journalist: the abolitionist Frederick Douglass.

In 1988, there was a chimp named Sami in the Belgrade Zoo who ran away. A photographer snapped an incredibly cute picture of the zoo director, Vukosav Bojović, trying to talk Sami into returning. This photograph is now a piece of history, just as fascinating as the other stories that…

There are five great trips to take across America that can immerse you in the culture of your favourite books.

The esteemed historian says her new book on the writing –and the attempts to amend – the constitution is in part ‘a deep historical critique of originalism’

In a swath of the nation’s capital that sits across the tracks, and the river, residents can see the Washington Monument, the Waldorf Astoria and the U.S. Capitol dome

Plus: A momentous date in the life of Frederick Douglass

Links to some of my previous writings on these topics, which remain relevant today.

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Since a reckoning brought awareness to problematic statues across the country, the road to replacing them has been slow and arduous