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Book cover of "Living the Dream" by Daniel T. Fleming.

Fighting to Desegregate the American Calendar

As a versatile but complex hero, King led a life open to interpretation by politicians and activists of all types who fiercely debated his legacy.
by Daniel T. Fleming, Brock Schnoke via UNC Press Blog on January 15, 2024
Jared Miller poses as his ancestor Richard Oliver, a soldier in the 20th Colored Infantry.

Descendants of Black Civil War Heroes Wear Their Heritage With Pride

A bold new photographic project asks modern-day Americans to recreate portraits of their 19th-century ancestors in painstakingly accurate fashion.
by Jennie Rothenburg Gritz via Smithsonian on December 13, 2023
A mother sits behind a sign reading, "I have a Bible, I don't need those dirty books."

The Great Textbook War

What should children learn in school? It's a question that's stirred debate for decades, and in 1974 it led to violent protests in West Virginia.
by Trey Kay, Deborah George, Stan Bumgardner via American Public Media on September 11, 2023
Painting by Beauford Delaney featuring white outlines of people in front of a red, yellow, orange, and white patterned background.

In Old Wilmington

How the failed search for a silent film uncovered a lost musician of the Harlem Renaissance.
by John Jeremiah Sullivan via Oxford American on September 5, 2023
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Doing Black History

Exploring the ways that African American history has been learned and taught in schools, museums, and popular culture.

Africa, the Center of History

A new book works to counteract the “symphony of erasure” that has obscured and denied Africa’s contributions to the contemporary world.
by Adom Getachew via New York Review of Books on July 27, 2023
Two Pueblo people hold an American flag at the Ceremonial Cave of the Frijoles Canyon in New Mexico.

Without Indigenous History, There Is No U.S. History

It is impossible to understand the U.S. without understanding its Indigenous history, writes Ned Blackhawk.
by Ned Blackhawk via TIME on April 26, 2023
John Manuel Gandy, the namesake of a Hanover elementary school.

In Hanover, A Name is More than a Name

The sudden push to rename a historic school that educated scores of Black students reeks of revenge.
by Samantha Willis via Virginia Mercury on March 20, 2023
W.E.B. DuBois.

W.E.B. Du Bois, Black History Month and the Importance of African American Studies

As the 20th century’s preeminent scholar-activist on race, W.E.B. Du Bois would not be surprised by modern-day attempts at whitewashing American history.
by Chad Williams via The Conversation on February 7, 2023
A hand hovers over a projection of a map of Texas counties sewn on to fabric.

‘Underground Railroad’ Quilt Weaves Black Liberation History

African American fiber artists in San Antonio are challenging revisionist histories through artful storytelling.
by Briana Blueitt via Texas Observer on December 7, 2022
Diaga Müller at the Onkel Toms Hütte U-Bahn station in Berlin.

A Berlin Subway Stop is Called ‘Uncle Tom’s Cabin.’ Some Black Germans Want Change.

Black Germans have used activism and scholarship to shed light on what they describe as Germany’s racist fascination with the American South.
by Meena Venkataramanan via Retropolis on November 27, 2022
photo of C. Vann Woodward, c/o William R. Ferris, Van Every Smith Galleries

What Is There To Celebrate?

A review of "C. Vann Woodward: America’s Historian."
by Eric Foner via London Review of Books on October 20, 2022
Map of Moreno Valley.

The Blackest City

Not just in Riverside, but in all of the Inland Empire!
by Candice Mays via Mapping Black California on October 18, 2022
Lucille Walker, a domestic servant, holding a child on a suburban lawn.

Living in White Spaces: Suburbia's Hidden Histories

The Black women and men who worked and slept in white homes are mostly invisible in the histories of suburbia.
by David S. Rotenstein via The Metropole on October 10, 2022
Map of the United States South from 1857

Imani Perry’s Capacious History of the South

Contrary to popular belief, the South has always been the key to defining the promise and limits of American democracy.
by Robert Greene II via The Nation on September 17, 2022
Black-and-white photograph of black students sitting in a classroom at the Tuskegee Institute.

The Complicity of the Textbooks

A new book traces how the writing of American history, from Reconstruction on, has falsified and illuminated our racial past.
by Eric Foner via New York Review of Books on September 5, 2022
A drawn portrait of James Baldwin in front of a line drawing of a classroom with desks.

The Fire This Time

How James Baldwin speaks to lethal myths of white innocence—and why his work belongs in public-school classrooms.
by Sana Hashmi via The Forum on August 30, 2022
Ada “Bricktop” Smith (far left) seated at table with other women, the New York Public Library Digital Collections, 1920 – 1929 (Courtesy of the Schomburg Center).

Behind and Beyond Biography: Writing Black Women’s Lives and Thoughts

Ashley D. Farmer and Tanisha C. Ford explain the importance of biographical writing of African American women and the personal connection involved.
by Ashley D. Farmer, Tanisha C. Ford via Black Perspectives on May 31, 2022
A Black walks among the Willow Grove Cemetery, featuring raised graves sites.

She Warned the Grain Elevator Would Disrupt Sacred Black History. They Deleted Her Findings.

A whistleblower says new construction on an old plantation would disrupt important historic sites, including possibly unmarked graves of enslaved people.
by Seth Freed Wessler via ProPublica on May 20, 2022
Odetta sitting on a park bench playing a guitar.

How Odetta Revolutionized Folk Music

She animated the horror and emotional intensity in American labor songs by projecting them like a European opera singer.
by Sasha Frere-Jones via The New Yorker on February 24, 2022
Portrait photograph of John B. Cade.
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John B. Cade's Project to Document the Stories of the Formerly Enslaved

There are revelations in a newly digitized collection of slave narratives compiled by a professor and his students during the Great Depression.
by Susanna Ashton via JSTOR Daily on January 26, 2022
James H. Sweet

From Inclusive Public Schools to Divisive Concepts

Some personal reflections from American Historical Association president James H. Sweet on the recent wave of "divisive concepts" laws.
by James H. Sweet via Perspectives on History on December 15, 2021
1619 Project cover

The NYT’s Jake Silverstein Concocts “a New Origin Story” for the 1619 Project

The project's editor falsifies the history of American history-writing, openly embracing the privileging of “narrative” over “actual fact.”
by Tom Mackaman via World Socialist Web Site on November 24, 2021
Black and white image of two women, one Black and one white, greeting each other with children in the background.

As One of the First White Kids in a Black School, I Learned Not to Fear History

Today, some Virginians would ‘protect’ children from the kind of valuable education that I had when my dad was governor.
by Woody Holton via Washington Post on November 12, 2021
An unkempt cemetery

When Black History Is Unearthed, Who Gets to Speak for the Dead?

Efforts to rescue African American burial grounds and remains have exposed deep conflicts over inheritance and representation.
by Jill Lepore via The New Yorker on September 24, 2021
Man kneeling in crowd in front of police

On Our Knees

What the history of a gesture can tell us about Black creative power.
by Farah Peterson via The American Scholar on September 7, 2021
Black mother holding baby

The Persistent Joy of Black Mothers

Characterized throughout American history as symbols of crisis, trauma, and grief, these women reject those narratives through world-making of their own.
by Leah Wright Rigueur via The Atlantic on August 11, 2021
1890s American schoolboys

American Education Is Founded on White Race Theory

The conservative hysteria over critical race theory is a refusal to acknowledge that American schools have always taught a white-centric view of U.S. history.
by Anthony Conwright via The New Republic on July 29, 2021
Sly Stone performing in front of crowd

What the Harlem Cultural Festival Represented

Questlove’s debut as a director, the documentary "Summer of Soul," revisits a musical event that encapsulated the energies of Harlem in the 1960s.
by David Hajdu via The Nation on July 29, 2021

Black Women and American Freedom in Revolutionary America

The relationship between enslaved women and the Revolutionary war.
by Karen Cook Bell via Black Perspectives on July 13, 2021
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The Girders of Steel City's History

Pittsburgh as a symbol of America itself.
by Ed Simon via HNN on July 11, 2021
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