Selected Journalism

Eric Herschthal, “Black Americans Have Always Understood Science as a Tool in Their Freedom Struggle,” The Washington Post (May 18, 2021).

Eric Herschthal, “The Elusive Promise of the Underground Railroad,” The New Republic (Dec. 7, 2020).

Eric Herschthal, “Could the United States Break Up?” The New Republic (Sept. 1, 2020).

Eric Herschthal, “An Early Case for Reparations,” The New Republic (Oct. 16, 2019).

Eric Herschthal, “1619: What We Get Wrong About the Roots of Slavery in America,” The Washington Post (Feb. 19, 2019).

Eric Herschthal, “Why Trump Could Pardon Jack Johnson When Obama Wouldn’t,” The New York Review of Books (Jun. 13, 2018).

Eric Herschthal, “Frederick Douglass’s Fight Against Scientific Racism,” The New York Times (Feb. 22, 2018).

Eric Herschthal, “America’s First Civil War,” Slate (Sept. 6, 2016).

Eric Herschthal, “New York’s First Black Millionaire,” The Daily Beast (Dec. 4, 2015).

Eric Herschthal, “The Unmaking of America,” Slate (Nov. 2, 2015).

Eric Herschthal, “The America Revolution’s Losers Weren’t All British,” The Daily Beast (July 4, 2015).

Eric Herschthal, “How Capitalism Gave Slavery Its Start,” The Daily Beast (Apr. 24, 2015).

Eric Herschthal, “The Civil War After the Civil War,” Slate (Apr. 9, 2015).

Eric Herschthal, “The Fabric of Our Lives,” Slate (Dec. 2, 2014).

Eric Herschthal, “Sex Lives of the Founders,” The Daily Beast (Feb. 21, 2014).

Eric Herschthal, “How Blacks Freed Themselves,” The Daily Beast (Feb. 18, 2014).

Eric Herschthal, "The Passion of Solomon Northup," The New York Times (Nov. 6, 2013)

Eric Herschthal, “Revolution Blues,” Slate (July 3, 2013).

Eric Herschthal, "Dreaming of Haiti," The New York Times (Dec. 21, 2012).

Eric Herschthal, "Is Thomas Jefferson To Blame for Today's Partisan Politics?" The Atlantic (Nov. 1, 2012).