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The Experience That Taught Me Blackface and Klan Hoods Are Forms of Racial Terror

A childhood lesson in the backseat of a 1973 Mustang.

by Tanisha C. Ford via Tanisha C. Ford on February 6, 2019

Before It Conquered the World, Facebook Conquered Harvard

On Facebook's 15th anniversary, Harvard students and faculty reflect on being the first users of Earth's largest social network.

by Alexis C. Madrigal via The Atlantic on February 4, 2019

Lightning Struck

How an Atlanta neighborhood died on the altar of Super Bowl dreams.

by Max Blau via The Bitter Southerner on January 22, 2019

American Indian woman and children.

The Heartbeat of Wounded Knee

“Our cultures are not dead and our civilizations have not been destroyed. Our present tense is evolving as rapidly and creatively as everyone else’s.”

by David Treuer via Longreads on January 22, 2019

The History Before Us

How can we be sure the atrocities of the past will stay in the past?

by Jessica Jacobs via Guernica on January 21, 2019

How 'Green Book' And The Hollywood Machine Swallowed Donald Shirley Whole

Why relatives of the musician depicted in "Green Book" called the film “a symphony of lies.”

by Brooke Obie via Shadow and Act on December 14, 2018

Jonestown’s Victims Have a Lesson to Teach Us, So I Listened

In uncovering the blackness of Peoples Temple, I began to better understand my community and the need to belong.

by Jamilah King via Mother Jones on November 16, 2018

Monica Lewinsky surrounded by men in suits.

Why I Participated in a New Docuseries on The Clinton Affair

Reliving the events of 1998 was traumatic, yes—but also worth it, if it helps another young person avoid being “That Woman”-ed.

by Monica Lewinsky via The Hive on November 13, 2018

The Body in Poverty

The decline of America’s rural health system and its toll on my family.

by Sarah Smarsh via The Nation on September 26, 2018

In the Hate of Dixie

Cynthia Tucker returns to her hometown of Monroeville, Alabama – also the hometown of Harper Lee, and the site of 17 lynchings.

by Cynthia Tucker via The Bitter Southerner on August 28, 2018

We Saw Nuns Kill Children: The Ghosts of St. Joseph’s Catholic Orphanage

Millions of American children were placed in orphanages. Some didn’t make it out alive.

by Christine Kenneally via BuzzFeed News on August 27, 2018

A Wretched Situation Made Plain on Paper

How an engraving of a slave ship helped the abolition movement.

by Cheryl Finley via Lapham’s Quarterly on July 25, 2018

As Goes the South, So Goes the Nation

History haunts, but Alabama changes.

by Imani Perry via Harper’s on July 15, 2018

My Dad and Henry Ford

My father was pro-Jewish propaganda when the country had an anti-semitism problem - he even met the man that inspired much of the hate. But is history repeating itself?

by Michael Kupperman via The Nib on July 6, 2018

A Japanese American woman holds a baby at an internment camp.

‘At Least During the Internment …’ Are Words I Thought I’d Never Utter

I was sent to a camp at just 5 years old — but even then, they didn't separate children from families.

by George Takei via Foreign Policy on June 19, 2018

Why Do People Sign Yearbooks?

Commemorative class books evolved from practical notebooks into collections of hair clippings, two-line rhymes, and summer wishes.

by Jennifer Billock via The Atlantic on June 3, 2018

Meet The Last Surviving Witness to the Tulsa Race Riot of 1921

Olivia Hooker was 6 at the time of the riot, considered to be one of the worst incidents of racial violence in U.S. history.

by Nellie Gilles via NPR on May 31, 2018

Contraband Flesh

A reflection on Zora Neale Hurston’s newly-published book, "Barracoon."

by Autumn Womack via The Paris Review on May 7, 2018

The book "The Handmaid's Tale"

Margaret Atwood on How She Came to Write The Handmaid’s Tale

The origin story of an iconic novel.

by Margaret Atwood via Literary Hub on April 25, 2018

Real Museums of Memphis

How the National Civil Rights Museum has obscured the ongoing dispossession of African-Americans taking place in its shadow.

by Zandria Felice Robinson via Scalawag on April 12, 2018

The Unfulfilled Promise of the Fair Housing Act

Fifty years after President Johnson signed it into law, the bill has failed to create an integrated society.

by Michelle Adams via The New Yorker on April 11, 2018

Still of Molly Ringwald and Emilio Estevez from The Breakfast Club.

What About “The Breakfast Club”?

Revisiting the movies of my youth in the age of #MeToo.

by Molly Ringwald via The New Yorker on April 6, 2018

Open books.

James Baldwin: ‘I Did Not Want to Weep for Martin, Tears Seemed Futile’

In memory of Martin Luther King Jr, a look back on his funeral.

by Jason Sokol via Literary Hub on April 4, 2018

One Night on the Mountaintop

Martin Luther King Jr. came to Memphis 50 years ago to help 1,300 black sanitation workers on strike. Ozell Ueal was one of them.

by Tonyaa Weathersbee via The Bitter Southerner on April 3, 2018

American military trucks on a Baghdad street.

Iraq, 15 Years Later

Fifteen years after the U.S. invasion, there’s no satisfying answer to the question: What were we doing in Iraq anyway?

by Theodore R. Johnson III via The Atlantic on March 20, 2018

Men Write History, But Women Live It

The people who make it past 100, who watch the most history unfold, are almost all women.

by Chloe Angyal via HuffPost on March 1, 2018

Abraham Lincoln entering Richmond, 1865.

How One Amateur Historian Brought Us the Stories of African-Americans Who Knew Abraham Lincoln

Once John E. Washington started to dig, he found an incredible wealth of untapped knowledge about the 16th president.

by Kate Masur via Smithsonian on February 20, 2018

Abraham Lincoln's Secret Visits to Slaves

Former slaves claimed the president came to plantations disguised as a beggar or a peddler, telling them they’d soon be free.

by Bill Black via The Atlantic on February 12, 2018

History in the Face of Catastrophe

After my son died, how could I know anything for certain?

by Stéphane Gerson via The Chronicle of Higher Education on February 4, 2018

Interviews With Elderly People in 1929

The footage offers a riveting account of American history, in the voices of those who lived it.

by Fox Movietone via Aeon on January 15, 2018

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