Michael Jahr

Jun 20, 2025

A Forgotten Uprising Helped Pave the Way to Juneteenth

When Union Major General Gordon Granger arrived in Galveston, Texas, on June 19, 1865, he delivered astonishing news: enslaved people in the furthest reaches of the former...
Apr 4, 2025

The Nine Days in March That Led to the Republican Party

On the wintry morning of March 11, 1854, Milwaukee abolitionist newspaper editor Sherman Booth received an urgent telegram from nearby Racine: a fugitive slave had been arrested and...