Antietam: The Bloodiest Day and a Turning Point Toward Emancipation

On the morning of September 17, 1862, near Sharpsburg, Maryland, two armies collided in what remains the bloodiest single day in American military history — and gave Abraham Lincoln the military opening to announce a decision he had already been considering: linking Union victory to the destruction of slavery.

Emancipation’s Complicated History, with Kris Manjapra

Emancipation in America is often presented as a single and singular undertaking. But Professor Kris Manjapra’s new book, Black Ghost of Empire, complicates that story by situating America’s national emancipation in a long line of global emancipations–including the first emancipations, which occurred in America’s North in the late 18th century–that were in many ways structured to benefit…