400 Years

The Strange Career of the Black Scholar: Jason Arday and Playing the Game

What happened to Cambridge professor, Dr. Jason Arday, is the dread of every Black person in academia.

Aug 10 • Dr. D. Elisabeth Glassco

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July 2026

The Most Honest Confederate

Why don’t we believe him?

Jul 22 • Dr. D. Elisabeth Glassco

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Thomas Jefferson’s Other Declaration

America’s most radiant promise of equality was never innocent. Jefferson’s own writings reveal why.

Jul 10 • Dr. D. Elisabeth Glassco

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June 2026

How the White Man Invented Himself

Before there were “white people,” there were Englishmen, Scots, Frenchmen, and Dutchmen. So when did they become white—and why did it matter?

Jun 29 • Dr. D. Elisabeth Glassco

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Chicago, 1898: How a 29-Second Film Preserved a Lost World of Black America

Two vaudeville performers stepped before a camera in Chicago in 1898. The film they made survived. Almost everything around them did not.

Jun 18 • Dr. D. Elisabeth Glassco

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The Extraordinary Story of 1866

Nine months after Appomattox, the South remained a landscape of ruins and uncertainty. Yet amid the destruction, a quiet, forgotten movement was…

Jun 10 • Dr. D. Elisabeth Glassco

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How the White South Won the Civil War

When the Civil War ended, many Americans believed the nation had been remade. Good over evil. Right over wrong. But whose America was it?

Jun 1 • Dr. D. Elisabeth Glassco

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May 2026

History vs. Myth: The Truth About Memorial Day

Before Memorial Day became a national tradition, something remarkable took place in the ruins of the postwar South—so powerful that later generations…

May 25 • Dr. D. Elisabeth Glassco

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April 2026

In the Name of God: How the Word Became the World

A series on how scripture became power.

Apr 28 • Dr. D. Elisabeth Glassco

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The Lords of the Land: Israel in Canaan

On the same ridge, two histories face one another: one rooted in scripture and return, the other in village memory and cultivated land.

Apr 22 • Dr. D. Elisabeth Glassco

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Ham’s Children: How Scripture Was Made to Serve Slavery—and How the Enslaved Read It Otherwise

The same Bible that was used to command obedience in the fields became, in whispered prayer meetings, a text of liberation.

Apr 13 • Dr. D. Elisabeth Glassco

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What God Hath Wrought: From Papal Bull to the Trail of Tears

Before the United States claimed a continent, it inherited an older idea: that discovery by a Christian power could turn inhabited land into empire.

Apr 4 • Dr. D. Elisabeth Glassco

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