Justice

Donald Trump’s restrictive plan is reminiscent of legislation from 100 years ago.

The lessons of Japanese interment for policy makers today.

Brandon Byrd examines resistance to the American Colonization Society's attempts to remove free blacks from the US.

When President Trump contemplates violating court orders, he joins a longer list of presidents.

How a trio of Harvard-educated blue bloods led a crusade to keep the "undesirables" out and make America great again.

The president's executive orders and inflammatory rhetoric follow a predictable path.

Jeff Sessions tried to jail an activist couple trying to ensure the black residents of Alabama the right to vote.

What anti-Trump protesters can learn from the successes, and mistakes, of the anti-Vietnam War movement.

One hundred years ago, the U.S. Congress decided that there needed to be severe limits on who was coming into the country.

The U.S. is neither a land of nativists nor a haven for immigrants. Since the founding, the truth has lain somewhere in between.

Trump may block entry to foreigners who need public benefits—a proposal rooted in 19th-century laws targeting poor immigrants.

Six historians unpack the meaning of President Trump's controversial executive order.

The era of Trump could mark the recovery in American civil society of the moral and political power of global human rights.

A semester-length guide for educators and citizens seeking to understand the history and meaning of immigration in the U.S.

In the late 19th century, Wells connected lynchings to the economic interests and status anxieties of white southerners.

Jo Ann Robinson is unfortunately overlooked by history.

Reagan never really believed that Martin Luther King, Jr., deserved a holiday.

W. E. B. Du Bois may be our keenest critic of Trumpism today.

Adam Shprintzen discusses the 19th-century Americans who saw a vegetarian diet as a powerful tool of moral reform, one that could even put an end to slavery.

A primary source set and teaching guide created by educators.

A century ago, millions of Americans banded together to reform the KKK, the rest turned a blind eye.

Judy Juanita on her novel 'Virgin Soul,' which incorporates her experiences as a Black Panther living in San Francisco.

Rosa Parks shook the world of Jim Crow by refusing to give up her seat to a white man on her way home from work.

The susceptibility of black ex-soldiers to extrajudicial murder and assault has long been recognized by historians.

Operation Wetback didn't merely enforce immigration law-it enforced the idea that American citizens are white.

Black veterans were once targeted for racialized violence because of the equality with whites that their military service implied.

In 1803 one of the largest mass suicides of enslaved people took place when Igbo captives from what is now Nigeria were taken to the Georgia coast.

What if we use the history of slavery as a standpoint from which to rethink our notion of justice today?

In many Southern states, "Brown v. Board of Education" fueled decades of resistance to school integration.

A wrenching new book recounts the bloodiest prison battle in our history.