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On Prejudice

An 18th-century creole slaveholder invented the idea of 'racial prejudice’ to defend diversity among a slaveowning elite.

by Blake Smith via Aeon on March 5, 2018

Trump’s View of America as a White Nation Is as American as Apple Pie

But it’s seriously dated. And there's another tradition he could draw on.

by Benjamin E. Park via HNN on January 15, 2018

Police Dogs and Anti-Black Violence

Police brutality has been a hot topic in contemporary society, but when did this all really start and where did dogs get involved?

by Tyler D. Parry via Black Perspectives on July 31, 2017

The Poverty of Entrepreneurship: The Silicon Valley Theory of History

How Silicon Valley coopts history for its own autocratic ends.

by John Patrick Leary via The New Inquiry on June 9, 2017

What Herman Melville Can Teach Us About the Trump Era

He would point out that what plagues us are America's sins coming home to roost.

by Ariel Dorfman via The Nation on May 10, 2017

Soldiers with arms and fortifications in a street in Bolivia.

Our Fellow American Revolutionaries

When residents of the U.S. came to see Latin Americans as partners in a shared revolutionary experiment.

by Caitlin Fitz, Timothy Shenk via Dissent on June 30, 2016

Don’t Be So Quick to Defend Woodrow Wilson

It would be a grave mistake to ignore the link between Wilson’s white supremacy at home and his racist militarism abroad.

by Greg Grandin via The Nation on November 24, 2015

Why Americans Love To Declare Independence

The 1776 Declaration was only the first. What we learn from the long history of splinter constitutions, manifestos, and secessions that followed.

by Robert L. Tsai via Boston Globe on June 29, 2014

Cover of "Empire of Necessity" featuring a painting of violence being wrought on enslaved men.

The Bleached Bones of the Dead

What the modern world owes slavery. (It’s more than back wages).

by Greg Grandin via Tom Dispatch on February 23, 2014

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