white supremacy

Richardson’s work is as much about the contradictions of our shared past as it is an urgent call to action around the current authoritarian crisis.

From Jefferson's viewpoint, Native peoples could claim a title to their homelands, but they did not own that land as private property.

Any effective soul-searching must take into account the history of white American Christian support for white supremacist power.

How to hide an empire, from the Spanish-American war to CIA-sponsored Latin American coups.

Both Southerners. Both all but forgotten. Both, in their own ways, questioned the social constructions of race and white supremacy in their writings.

Thomas Dixon’s racist discourse lurks in American politics and society even today.

“Very fine people”—fathers and husbands, as well as mothers and daughters—have always been central to the work of white supremacy.

An examination of the tragic echoes of Reconstruction-era politics following Obama's presidency.

A conversation with the author of "Bring the War Home: The White Power Movement and Paramilitary America."

Confederate monuments were essential pieces of white supremacist propaganda.

With Donald Trump bringing the Ku Klux Klan back into the spotlight, we must return to William Bradford Huie's 1967 novel.

How the classic film helped promote a Reconstruction myth that was central to the maintenance of Jim Crow.

Many were funded privately. The public now deserves a say in their fate.

If you understand why that Civil War statue really went up, the debate over removing it looks a lot different.

The weekend's demonstrators were the latest in a long line of American racists to ally themselves with an imagined Middle Ages.

The only logic to honoring Lee is to honor treason and treason in the worst possible cause.

President Trump is by no means off the mark to call attention to Andrew Jackson as a precursor. The analogy, however, is not necessarily flattering.

Why fiery crosses, white robes, and the American flag were seized upon by the 1920s Klan in its campaign for white nationalism.

The legend of the Confederate leader’s heroism and decency is based in the fiction of a person who never existed.

Richard Spencer is a troll and an icon for white supremacists. He was also my high-school classmate.