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Full Pardon and Amnesty
Considering the treatment of Confederate veterans in light of the treatment of undocumented immigrants in the South today.
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Geoff Davidson
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The Bitter Southerner
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September 6, 2019
Aaron Burr — Villain of ‘Hamilton’ — Had a Secret Family of Color, New Research Shows
The vice president is best known for killing rival Alexander Hamilton in an 1804 duel. But he was also a notorious rake, historians say.
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Hannah Natanson
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Retropolis
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August 24, 2019
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.
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Hector Tobar
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The New Yorker
on
July 22, 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.
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Karin Wulf
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Smithsonian
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June 18, 2019
partner
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
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Made By History
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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.
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Jarvis Deberry
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nola.com
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May 29, 2019
Slavery and the Family Tree
How do you make a family tree when you may not know your family history?
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Whitney Nell Stewart
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Black Perspectives
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May 15, 2019
Beyond Romantic Advertisements: Ancestry.com, Genealogy, and White Supremacy
On Ancestry's dangerous move to make it harder to discern which white families owned slaves.
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Adam H. Domby
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Black Perspectives
on
May 10, 2019
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?
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Emily West
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Uncommon Sense
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May 7, 2019
Incidents in the Life of Harriet Jacobs
A virtual tour of "Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl."
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Elizabeth Della Zazzera
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Lapham’s Quarterly
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April 15, 2019
Her Ancestors Fled to Mexico to Escape Slavery 170 Years Ago. She Still Sings in English.
The oldest living member of the Mascogos still sings songs in a language she doesn't understand.
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Kevin Sieff
via
Washington Post
on
April 12, 2019
Ghosts In My Blood
Regina Bradley searches for truths about her great-grandfather and his murder.
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Regina Bradley
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Southern Cultures
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April 9, 2019
America’s Most Famous Family Feuds
Many of America’s most notorious feuds have their roots in the Civil War.
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Andy Warner
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Chelsea Saunders
via
The Nib
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February 19, 2019
The Lucky Ones
I told her we were brought over the Rio Grande on a raft. I never called it a smuggling.
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Adriana Gallardo
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Guernica
on
February 19, 2019
The Experience That Taught Me Blackface and Klan Hoods Are Forms of Racial Terror
A childhood lesson in the backseat of a 1973 Mustang.
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Tanisha C. Ford
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Tanisha C. Ford
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February 6, 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
One Family’s Story of the Great Migration North
Bridgett M. Davis tracks her mother's journey from Nashville to Detroit.
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Bridgett M. Davis
via
Literary Hub
on
January 30, 2019
The History Before Us
How can we be sure the atrocities of the past will stay in the past?
by
Jessica Jacobs
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Guernica
on
January 21, 2019
In the 19th Century, Miscarriage Could Be a Happy Relief
A new book shows the remarkable contrast between 19th-century women’s views of miscarriage and the loss-focused rhetoric of today.
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Rebecca Onion
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Slate
on
November 26, 2018
Finding Carrie Buck
Doctors who sterilized Carrie Buck said she was a “feeble-minded” woman whose future offspring posed a threat to society. Her life paints a different picture.
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Cori Brosnahan
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PBS NewsHour
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November 2, 2018
My Grandfather Was Welcomed to Pittsburgh by the Group the Gunman Hated
He came to this country a refugee, and paid his debt forward.
by
Amy Weiss-meyer
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The Atlantic
on
October 29, 2018
Did George Washington ‘Have a Couple of Things in His Past’?
A historian assesses Donald Trump’s claim that the first president faced his own allegations of sexual assault.
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Cassandra A. Good
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The Atlantic
on
September 28, 2018
Slave and Free Black Marriage in the Nineteenth Century
During and after slavery, some whites considered legal marriage too sacred an institution to be offered to black Americans.
by
Vanessa M. Holden
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Black Perspectives
on
September 19, 2018
My Great-Grandfather, the Nigerian Slave-Trader
White traders couldn’t have loaded their ships without help from Africans like my great-grandfather.
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Adaobi Tricia Nwaubani
via
The New Yorker
on
July 15, 2018
Jefferson and Hemings: How Negotiation Under Slavery Was Possible
In navigating lives of privation and brutality, enslaved people haggled, often daily, for liberties small and large.
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Daina Ramey Berry
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HISTORY
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July 8, 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
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The Nib
on
July 6, 2018
An Irrevocable Separation
When the government executed Julius and Ethel Rosenberg, the welfare of their two boys was a secondary concern.
by
Robert Meeropol
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The Marshall Project
on
July 2, 2018
Donald Trump's Grandfather Came to the U.S. as an Unaccompanied Minor
President Trump's grandfather made the choice to leave his German family for the U.S. all the way back in 1885.
by
Kristine Phillips
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Retropolis
on
June 27, 2018
The Unromantic, Untold Story of the Great US Divorce Spree of 1946
The war brought many couples together. It also drove many apart.
by
Corinne Purtill
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Quartz
on
June 26, 2018
partner
Why Laura Bush Speaking Up on Separating Families Matters So Much
The language that has long been critical to covertly mobilizing activism.
by
Jim Downs
via
Made By History
on
June 20, 2018
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