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The Assassin Next Door

My family’s immigrant journey and James Earl Ray’s path to targeting MLK, Jr., intersected at a corner of East Hollywood.
by Hector Tobar via The New Yorker on July 22, 2019
Dilapidated boathouse

The Brothers Who Spent Eight Years in Jail for Refusing to Leave Their Family's Land

Their great-grandfather had bought the land a hundred years earlier, when he was a generation removed from slavery.
by Lizzie Presser via ProPublica on July 15, 2019

Why This Mexican Village Celebrates Juneteenth

Descendants of slaves who escaped across the southern border observe Texas’s emancipation holiday with their own unique traditions.
by Wes Ferguson via Texas Monthly on June 20, 2019

This Long-Ignored Document by George Washington Lays Bare the Legal Power of Genealogy

In Washington’s Virginia, family was a crucial determinant of social and economic status, and freedom.
by Karin Wulf via Smithsonian on June 18, 2019

Escaped Nuns

Why some antebellum reformers thought convents were incompatible with "true womanhood."
by Pete Cajka, Cassandra L. Yacovazzi via Religion in American History on June 17, 2019
Unidentified African American soldier in Union uniform with wife and two daughters.

Race in Black and White

Slavery and the Civil War were central to the development of photography as both a technology and an art.
by Alexis L. Boylan via Boston Review on June 3, 2019
African men in slave pens in Washington D.C. circa 1849-1850.
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How Ancestry.com Has Failed African American Customers

The genealogy site fails to understand the fundamental differences between white and black history.
by Kristen Green via Made By History on May 31, 2019

For Some, School Integration Was More Tragedy Than Fairy Tale

Almost 60 years later, a mother regrets her decision to send her 6-year-old into a hate-filled environment.
by Jarvis Deberry via nola.com on May 29, 2019
Solange and Beyonce Knowles at the MTV Video Music Awards, 2007.

‘Give It Up For My Sister’: Beyonce, Solange, and The History of Sibling Acts in Pop

Family dynasties are neither new nor newly influential in pop.
by Danielle Amir Jackson via Longreads on May 20, 2019

Joe Biden's Audacity of Grief

On the mournful threads connecting his half-century in politics.
by George Blaustein via The New Republic on May 16, 2019
Lithograph of Black wet nurse nursing a white baby.

The Double-Edged Sword of Motherhood Under American Slavery

How did enslaved mothers contend with the possibility that their children could be sold away from them?
by Emily West via Uncommon Sense on May 7, 2019
A young boy watches a man play the guitar.

How Eudora Welty’s Photography Captured My Grandmother’s History

Natasha Trethewey on experiencing a past not our own.
by Natasha Trethewey via Literary Hub on May 7, 2019

It Was History All Along, Mom

Why did I never recognize all the important and valuable stories my mother told me as "history"?
by Erin Bartram via Contingent on May 5, 2019

The Cautionary Patriotism of the Presidents Adams

Father and son alike, suspicious of too much charisma.
by Nancy Isenberg, Andrew Burstein via Literary Hub on April 18, 2019
Portrait photograph of Harriet Jacobs as an older woman

Incidents in the Life of Harriet Jacobs

A virtual tour of "Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl."
by Elizabeth Della Zazzera via Lapham’s Quarterly on April 15, 2019
Illustration of birth certificate and coin necklace

Ghosts In My Blood

Regina Bradley searches for truths about her great-grandfather and his murder.
by Regina Bradley via Southern Cultures on April 9, 2019

White Southerners' Wealth After the Civil War

What Southern dynasties’ post-Civil War resurgence tells us about how wealth is really handed down.
by Andrew Van Dam via Washington Post on April 4, 2019

Signs of Return

Photography as History in the U.S. South.
by Grace Elizabeth Hale via Southern Cultures on April 1, 2019

Appalachian Women Fought for Workers Long Before They Fought for Jobs

Two new books recount the leading role women have played in Appalachian social justice movements.
by Heather Duncan via Scalawag on March 25, 2019
A drawing of Civil War soldiers toasting each other around a table as death, in the form of a skeleton, waits outside the tent (c. 1863).

Understanding Trauma in the Civil War South

Suicide during the Civil War and Reconstruction.
by Sarah Handley-Cousins, Diane Miller Sommerville via Nursing Clio on March 20, 2019
Framed portrait of Julia Chinn.

The Erasure and Resurrection of Julia Chinn

Why the nation's ninth vice-president – and his black wife – were purposely forgotten.
by Amrita Chakrabarti Myers via Association of Black Women Historians on March 3, 2019

Our Twisted DNA

A review of "She Has Her Mother’s Laugh: The Powers, Perversions, and Potential of Heredity."
by Tim Flannery via New York Review of Books on February 22, 2019

Black Farmworkers in the Central Valley: Escaping Jim Crow for a Subtler Kind of Racism

"The difference between here and the South is just that — it's hidden."
by Alexandra Hall via KQED on February 22, 2019
Cover of John Krakauer's book "Under the Banner of Heaven," featuring the Utah landscape.

Abusing Religion: Polygyny, Mormonisms, and Under the Banner of Heaven

How stories of abuse in minority religious communities have influenced American culture.
by Megan Goodwin via The Revealer on February 20, 2019

The Lucky Ones

I told her we were brought over the Rio Grande on a raft. I never called it a smuggling.
by Adriana Gallardo via Guernica on February 19, 2019

America’s Most Famous Family Feuds

Many of America’s most notorious feuds have their roots in the Civil War.
by Andy Warner, Chelsea Saunders via The Nib on February 19, 2019

“My Dear Master”: An Enslaved Blacksmith’s Letters to a President

This document is the rarest of items in the Library of Congress's manuscript collections: a letter written by an enslaved person.
by Adam Rothman via Library of Congress on February 5, 2019

William James and the Spiritualist’s Phone

A story of a philosopher, his sister, and belief.
by Emily Harnett via Lapham’s Quarterly on February 4, 2019

The Making of an Iconic Photograph: Dorothea Lange’s Migrant Mother

The complex backstory of one of the most famous images of the Great Depression.
by Jason Kottke via kottke.org on January 31, 2019

How Jackie Robinson’s Wife, Rachel, Helped Him Break Baseball’s Color Line

At some point, Jackie began to refer to himself not as “I” but as “we.”
by Chris Lamb via The Conversation on January 30, 2019
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