Whereas Berman ultimately argued that positive freedom required socialism, his teacher (and one of Skinner’s old friends), the Harvard political theorist Judith Shklar, correctly argued that it ...

Freedom Fighters also forced Southern states to admit a handful of black students to all-white schools. Mississippi reluctantly desegregated its schools in 1964, becoming the last state in the ...

Academic freedom is under assault in the U.S. This attack has included state censorship of educational materials and classroom discussions; bans on initiatives to promote diversity, equity, and ...

Politics Q&A October 29, 2020 What We Call Freedom Has Never Been About Being Free Annelien de Dijn’s new book looks at how the modern conception of freedom emerged as an antidemocratic reaction ...

But many freedom seeker stories had to be pieced together from various sources, “like assembling a jigsaw puzzle,” he said, using material published in the late 19th century and then forgotten.

And those connections can be tied directly to sites along the 2.5-mile Freedom Trail: in the wood harvested by enslaved workers to build the USS Constitution; in the unmarked graves at Boston's old ...

In the opening of his new book, Gateway To Freedom: The Hidden History of the Underground Railroad, Eric Foner lays out the inspirational story of Frederick Bailey — a young slave in Maryland ...

Two new books, 'On Freedom' and 'Erasing History,' trace why the U.S. is susceptible to fascist appeals from politicians like Donald Trump and Ron DeSantis.

Freedom is once again the central theme of Skinner’s new book, Liberty as Independence.A work of history that seeks to pinpoint exactly how long the older republican notion of liberty prevailed ...