Justice

The movement finally gets the big, bold history it deserves.

A close look at the grand compromise of 1976.

How “undue burden”—a concept nurtured by anti-abortion groups and championed by the first woman on the Supreme Court—has eroded the right to choose.

Getting the history of “busing” right enables us to see more clearly how school segregation and educational inequality continued in the decades after Brown.

The untold story of the eradication of the original Ku Klux Klan.

What makes a hero? Why do we remember some stories and not others?

Malcolm X died fifty-one years ago today, just as he was moving toward revolutionary ideas that challenged oppression in all its forms.

FDR cited military necessity as the basis for incarcerating 120,000 Japanese Americans.

The idealistic interpretation of Ellis Island should be revisited.

Dickens, Tocqueville, and the U.N. all agree about this American invention: It’s torture.

The vagrancy law regime regulated so much more than what is generally considered “vagrancy.”

Members of the Ku Klux Klan did not wear their distinctive white uniform until Hollywood—and a mail-order catalog—intervened.

Louis Farrakhan and the Black Lives Matter protests.

On Christmas Eve 1955, Jacqueline Smith died from an illegal abortion at her boyfriend Thomas G. Daniel’s apartment.

How the ban on booze gave rise to prejudiced policing, the penal system, and the modern American right wing.

Recovering black radicalism.

If radicalism meant insecurity, and immigration meant radicalism, the government's course was clear.

Historian Richard Breitman tracked the efforts of Anne Frank's family to seek refuge in the US while immigration rules and public attitudes towards immigrants were changing.

The notion that gun control has racist origins is popular in gun rights circles. Here's what's wrong with the claim.

The fears that were conjured by nativists 80 years ago are chillingly similar to what we're hearing today.

We are a nation of immigrants and refugees. Yet we always fear who is coming next.

Since the 1950s, disparities along class and racial lines have defined the nation's drug policy.

Judicial dissent in the Supreme Court has a long history.

The Confederate flag remains the symbol of our unfinished reckoning with race and violence for good reason.

How history textbooks reinforced narratives of racism, and the fight to change those books from the 1940s to the present.

A primary source set and teaching guide created by educators.

A look at the American public's ambivalent opinion of the death penalty.

America put drastically more people in prison over the past few decades than at any time in the nation's history.

Discussion of the Hart-Cellar Act that was passed 50 years ago.

The idea of an unfettered right to carry weapons in public originates in the antebellum South, and its culture of violence and honor.