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Was the white-nationalist march better understood as a departure from America’s traditional values, or viewed in the context of its history?

Overlooked by historians, Benjamin Lay was one of the nation's first radicals to argue for an end to slavery.

The Supreme Court is quietly gutting one of the United States’ most important civil rights statutes.

The disastrous consequences of focusing on law enforcement and criminality.

When the organization first defended Nazis, it did so for practical reasons.

The KKK was on the march in the 1980s. What strategies worked to stem their rise?

The execution of Sacco and Vanzetti over ninety years ago is a reminder of how the American state treats radicals.

Law and protest in Durham, North Carolina.

A 1928 essay by W.E.B. DuBois on the legacy of Robert E. Lee.

How immigrant labor struggles shaped the Hawaii we know today.

Like the abolitionists of yesteryear, white Americans who oppose racial oppression deserve to be remembered and emulated.

The long history of law enforcement's complicity in the affairs of right-wing insurgents.

After the urban unrest of the Long Hot Summer, a commission was formed.

The battle against the remnants of Confederate sentiment is a battle against both white supremacy and class rule.

Seventy-eight years ago, protesters and white supremacists clashed outside of Madison Square Garden.

How Amos Adams Lawrence became an abolitionist.

Trump’s transgender ban restarts the debate about the relation between military service and social policy.

The prospective series takes as its premise an ugly truth that black Americans are forced to live every day: What if the Confederacy wasn’t wholly defeated?

One of the key factors in what happened in 1967 in Detroit has long gone overlooked

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

In her new book, ‘True Sex,’ historian Emily Skidmore looks at their lives and how society has treated them.

Here's what we've learned about mass protests since the 1917 Silent Parade.

A brief review of history.

State-sanctioned efforts to keep the incarcerated from reproducing began in the early 20th century and continue today.

Remembering the "Silent Protest Parade."

The brewing conflict between originalism and law-and-order politics.

Black women have always been equal partners in, if not central to, the tradition of Black protest and liberation movements.

The Yippies' takeover did not quite go to plan.

The first revolution articulated American ideals. The second enacted them.

50 years later, Philip Levine's poem, "They Feed They Lion," helps us remember and understand that time.