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Black Farmworkers in the Central Valley: Escaping Jim Crow for a Subtler Kind of Racism

"The difference between here and the South is just that — it's hidden."

by Alexandra Hall via KQED on February 22, 2019

How Yellow Fever Turned New Orleans Into The 'City Of The Dead'

Some years the virus would wipe out a tenth of the population, earning New Orleans the nickname "Necropolis."

by Leah Donnella via NPR on October 31, 2018

Factory Made

A history of modernity as a history of factories struggles to see beyond their walls.

by Padraic X. Scanlan via The New Inquiry on March 30, 2018

Roy Moore with a cowboy hat, gun, and microphone, in front of an American flag.

The Reason Roy Moore Won in Alabama That No One is Talking About

Centuries of economic inequality have left Southern politics ripe for insurgent outsiders.

by Keri Leigh Merritt via Made By History on October 5, 2017

Busy horse and buggy outside of North Station in Boston.

The Frontiers of American Capitalism

Noam Maggor’s new book captures how it took both sides of the American continent to revitalize the economy after the Civil War.

by Eric Foner via The Nation on June 1, 2017

Agronomist George Tynes, flanked by Soviet army cadets

Brave New World

In the 1930s, 16 African-American families from the South rejected the American experiment and looked to Communist Uzbekistan for a chance to build a new world.

via BackStory on November 11, 2016

Slavery Myths Debunked

The Irish were slaves too; slaves had it better than factory workvers; black people fought for the Confederacy; and so on.

by Jamelle Bouie, Rebecca Onion via Slate on September 29, 2015

Noel Ignatiev.

Africans in America: Interview with Noel Ignatiev

On the of role white supremacist ideas in enforcing slavery in the U.S. in the 19th century.

via American Archive of Public Broadcasting on January 1, 1998

Photo of Black woman and boy posing with a car packed with their belongings during the Great Migration.

The Hosts of Black Labor

The South must reform its attitude toward the Negro. The North must reform its attitude toward common labor.

by W.E.B. Du Bois via The Nation on May 9, 1923

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