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St Patrick's Day: Why So Many US Presidents Like to Say ‘I’m Irish’
Joe Biden is just the latest in a long line of US presidents to trace their ancestry back to the Emerald Isle.
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Richard Johnson
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The Conversation
on
March 16, 2021
Redlined, Now Flooding
Maps of historic housing discrimination show how neighborhoods that suffered redlining in the 1930s face a far higher risk of flooding today.
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Kriston Capps
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Christopher Cannon
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Bloomberg
on
March 15, 2021
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What the Election of Asian American GOP Women Means For the Party
While American conservatism remains largely White, it has slowly but surely become less so.
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Jane H. Hong
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Made By History
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March 8, 2021
How Black Women Brought Liberty to Washington in the 1800s
A new book shows us the capital region's earliest years through the eyes and the experiences of leaders like Harriet Tubman and Elizabeth Keckley.
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Tamika Nunley
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Karin Wulf
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Smithsonian
on
March 5, 2021
The Arch of Injustice
St. Louis seems to define America’s past—but does it offer insight for the future?
by
Steven Hahn
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Public Books
on
February 16, 2021
Lying with Numbers
How statistics were used in the urban North to condemn Blackness as inherently criminal.
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Mary F. Corey
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Los Angeles Review of Books
on
January 29, 2021
The 'Racial Caste System' at the U.S. Capitol
After the Capitol was cleared of insurrectionists on January 6, it wasn't lost on many that cleaning up the mess would fall largely to Black and Brown people.
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Karen Grigsby Bates
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James R. Jones
via
NPR
on
January 19, 2021
Our Interminable Election Eve
William Eggleston’s photographs of the South on the eve of the 1976 election captured an eerie quiet.
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Jonah Goldman Kay
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The Paris Review
on
November 5, 2020
Blight by Association: Why a White Working-Class Suburb Changed Its Name
The stretches one Detroit suburb made to justify a name change — the ‘burb’s supposedly colorblind arguments were anything but.
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Kenneth Alyass
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The Metropole
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October 1, 2020
How Candidate Diversity Impacts Color Diversity
We looked at 271 presidential candidate logos from 1968–2020 to find out how race and gender intersect with color choices.
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Champe Barton
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The Pudding
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August 1, 2020
Standing on the Crater of a Volcano
In 1920, James Weldon Johnson went to Washington, armed with census data, to fight rampant voter suppression across the American South.
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Dan Bouk
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Census Stories, USA
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July 27, 2020
The Many Explosions of Los Angeles in the 1960s
Set the Night on Fire isn't just a portrait of a city in upheaval. It's a history of uprisings for civil rights, against poverty, and for a better world.
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Samuel Farber
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Jacobin
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June 29, 2020
Was El Monte Really Founded by White Pioneers?
A new book explores the history of the people who have been written out of the L.A. suburb's longtime origin story.
by
Steve Chiotakis
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KCRW
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June 24, 2020
How Racist Policing Took Over American Cities
"The problem is the way policing was built," historian Khalil Muhammad says.
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Khalil Gibran Muhammad
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Anna North
via
Vox
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June 6, 2020
Significant Life Event
How midlife crises—and menopause—came to be defined by the experience of men.
by
Susanne Schmidt
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Lapham’s Quarterly
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March 16, 2020
Yes, Women Participated in the Gold Rush
“Conventional wisdom tells us that the gold rush was a male undertaking,” writes the historian Glenda Riley. But women were there, too.
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Erin Blakemore
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Glenda Riley
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JSTOR Daily
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December 19, 2019
Religion and the U.S. Census
Did the Census Bureau's practice of collecting data on religious bodies violate the separation of church and state?
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John G. Turner
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American Religious Ecologies
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October 7, 2019
The Constitution Is the Crisis
The system is rigged, and it’s the Constitution that’s doing the rigging.
by
Sanford Levinson
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The Atlantic
on
October 1, 2019
The Outsider
Who was behind the "Trumpist manifesto" released twenty years before Trump became president?
by
Matthew Rose
via
First Things
on
September 16, 2019
The Economic Origins of Mass Incarceration
Everything you knew about mass incarceration is wrong.
by
John Clegg
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Adaner Usmani
via
Catalyst
on
September 1, 2019
How We Think About the Term 'Enslaved' Matters
The first Africans who came to America in 1619 were not ‘enslaved’, they were indentured – and this is a crucial difference.
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Nell Irvin Painter
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The Guardian
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August 14, 2019
Want to Save the Humanities? Make College Free
It's time to shift the social contract of education away from short-term job training toward long-term development.
by
David M. Perry
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Pacific Standard
on
May 9, 2019
What We Get Wrong About Affirmative Action
The lawsuit against Harvard forces us to talk about Asian Americans' role in the racial equity debate.
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Vox
on
December 10, 2018
The 41-Volume Government Report That Turned Immigration into a Problem
In 1911, the Dillingham Commission set a half-century precedent for screening out 'undesirable' newcomers.
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Robert F. Zeidel
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Zócalo Public Square
on
July 16, 2018
Beyond the Middle Passage
Intra-American trafficking magnified slavery’s impact.
by
Robert Pollie
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Inqury @ UC Santa Cruz
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July 1, 2018
The Bobby Kennedy Myth
Many on the left have learned the wrong lessons from his ill-fated presidential bid.
by
Joshua Zeitz
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Politico Magazine
on
June 5, 2018
The 1968 Kerner Commission Got It Right, But Nobody Listened
Released 50 years ago, the report concluded that poverty and institutional racism were driving inner-city violence.
by
Alice George
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Smithsonian
on
March 1, 2018
When Pat Buchanan Tried To Make America Great Again
If you're wondering how Trump happened, all you have to do is let Pat Buchanan beguile you with a history no one else can tell.
by
Sam Tanenhaus
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Esquire
on
April 5, 2017
Donald Trump Sees Himself in Andrew Jackson. They Deserve Each Other.
The president deserves the Jackson legacy, but not for the reasons he'd like.
by
Jamelle Bouie
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Slate
on
March 15, 2017
Mother’s Friend: Birth Control in Nineteenth-Century America
How antebellum women prevented themselves from getting pregnant during an era when their identity was founded on being a mother.
by
Lauren MacIvor Thompson
via
National Museum of Civil War Medicine
on
February 5, 2017
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