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The Civilian Solution to Bank Robberies

The surprising story of the vigilantes who took it upon themselves to catch bank robbers in the 1920s and 30s.

by Erin Blakemore, Paul Musgrave via JSTOR Daily on May 17, 2019

Why We Can — and Must — Create a Fairer System of Traffic Enforcement

The discretionary nature of traffic enforcement has left it ripe for abuse.

by Sarah A. Seo via Made By History on May 15, 2019

How a Series of Jail Rebellions Rocked New York—and Woke a City

It has been nearly 50 years since New York’s jails erupted in protest, but the lessons of that era feel more relevant than ever.

by Heather Ann Thompson via The Nation on March 21, 2019

‘Bad Bridgets’: The Criminal and Deviant Irish Women Convicted in America

Irish-born women were disproportionately imprisoned in America for most of the nineteenth century.

by Elaine Farrell, Leanne McCormick via The Irish Times on February 20, 2019

This, Too, Was History

The battle over police-torture and reparations in Chicago’s schools.

by Peter C. Baker via The Point on January 14, 2019

1850s engraving of the Boston Massacre

Black Lives and the Boston Massacre

John Adams’s famous defense of the British may not be, as we’ve understood it, an expression of principle and the rule of law.

by Farah Peterson via The American Scholar on December 3, 2018

Payback

For years, Chicago cops tortured false confessions out of hundreds of black men. Years later, the survivors fought for reparations.

by Natalie Y. Moore via The Marshall Project on October 30, 2018

Prisons for Sale, Histories Not Included

The intertwined history of mass incarceration and environmentalism in Upstate New York's prison-building boom.

by Clarence Jefferson Hall Jr. via Edge Effects on October 23, 2018

How Small-Town Newspapers Ignored Local Lynchings

Sherilynn A. Ifill on justice (and its absence) in the 1930s.

by Sherilynn A. Ifill via Literary Hub on September 26, 2018

Prison Abolition Syllabus 2.0

An updated prison syllabus in response to the national prison strike of 2018.

by Dan Berger, Garrett Felber, Elizabeth Hinton, Anyabwile Love, Kali Nicole Gross via Black Perspectives on September 8, 2018

In the Hate of Dixie

Cynthia Tucker returns to her hometown of Monroeville, Alabama – also the hometown of Harper Lee, and the site of 17 lynchings.

by Cynthia Tucker via The Bitter Southerner on August 28, 2018

The Justice Department Is Reinvestigating the 1955 Slaying of Emmett Till

His brutal killing shocked the world and helped inspire the civil rights movement.

by Associated Press via TIME on July 12, 2018

Today's U.S.-Mexico "Border Crisis' in 6 Charts

Immigration from Mexico is actually decreasing.

by Douglas Massey via The Conversation on June 27, 2018

The End of Civil Rights

The attorney general is pushing an agenda that could erase many of the legal gains of modern America's defining movement.

by Vann R. Newkirk II via The Atlantic on June 18, 2018

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The Train at Wood's Crossing

Piecing together the story of an 1898 lynching in a community that chose to forget most of the details.

by Brendan Wolfe via brendanwolfe.com on June 17, 2018

Sending Even More Immigrants to Prison

Despite Jeff Sessions’ new mandate along the border, the Justice Department has prioritized immigration offenses for years.

by Yolanda Martinez via The Marshall Project on May 20, 2018

‘Crush Them’: An Oral History of the Lawsuit That Upended Silicon Valley

Twenty years ago, Microsoft tried to eliminate its competition in the race for the internet's future. The government had other ideas.

by Victor Luckerson via The Ringer on May 18, 2018

The History of Lynching and the Present of Policing

A new documentary on Michael Brown comes just in time.

by Khalil Gibran Muhammad via The Nation on May 17, 2018

The Rise of the Victims’-Rights Movement

How a conservative agenda and a feminist cause came together to transform criminal justice.

by Jill Lepore via The New Yorker on May 15, 2018

Treadmills Were Meant to Be Atonement Machines

America’s favorite piece of workout equipment was developed as a device for forced labor in British prisons.

by Diane Peters, U. R. Q. Henriques, David H Shayt via JSTOR Daily on May 2, 2018

Inside the courtroom during the Ziang Sun Wan trial.

The 1919 Murder Case That Gave Americans the Right to Remain Silent

Decades before the Miranda decision, a Washington triple-homicide paced the way to protect criminal suspects.

by Scott D. Seligman via Zócalo Public Square on April 30, 2018

Lady Justice statue.

The Untold Story of Ordinary Black Southerners’ Litigation During the Jim Crow Era

Between the Civil War and the Civil Rights Movement, about a thousand black southerners sued whites who had wronged them.

by Melissa Milewski via OUPblog on March 27, 2018

The Lessons of a School Shooting – in 1853

How a now-forgotten classroom murder inflamed the national gun argument.

by Saul Cornell via Politico Magazine on March 24, 2018

Sheeeeeeeee-it: The Secret History of the Politics in ‘The Wire’

An exclusive excerpt from the forthcoming oral history of HBO’s beloved drama.

by Jonathan Abrams via The Ringer on February 6, 2018

Why Does the U.S. Sentence Children to Life in Prison?

No other nation sentences people to die in prison for offenses committed as minors.

by Katie Rose Quandt via JSTOR Daily on January 31, 2018

Drawing of a prisoner with his head in his hands, viewed from behind a fence

Guantánamo Bay is Still Open. Still. STILL!

41 men are still being held without charges, without a way to leave, without homes to return to.

by Sarah Mirk, Jess Parker via The Nib on January 17, 2018

Voters casting ballots in 2008.

How Letting Felons Vote Is Changing Virginia

Governor McAuliffe has embarked on a campaign to grant clemency more often, and to restore the civil rights of convicted felons.

by Vann R. Newkirk II via The Atlantic on January 8, 2018

Americans Don't Really Understand Gun Violence

Why? Because there's very little known about the thousands of victims who survive deadly shootings.

by David S. Bernstein via The Atlantic on December 14, 2017

Will Feminism’s Past Mistakes Haunt #MeToo?

#MeToo must go beyond the demand for punishment.

by Judith Levine via Boston Review on December 8, 2017

Before the Bus, Rosa Parks Was a Sexual Assault Investigator

The civil rights icon also played a key role in pursuing justice for the victims of sexual assault.

by Ryan Mattimore via HISTORY on December 8, 2017

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