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It’s Time for Historians of Slavery to Listen to Economists

Economic analyses of the antebellum era upend the notion that Southern whites were united in their support of slavery.
by Keri Leigh Merritt via Historians Against Slavery on March 17, 2017

Black and Woke in Capitalist America: Revisiting Robert Allen’s "Black Awakening"... for New Times’ Sake

A look into neocolonialism in modern America.
by N. D. B. Connolly via Social Science Research Council on March 7, 2017
Rocket launch

Is a Mission to Mars Morally Defensible Given Today’s Real Needs?

Elon Musk and the rise of Silicon Valley’s strange trickle-down science.
by Andrew Russell, Lee Vinsel via Aeon on December 1, 2016
Redlining map for Decatur, Illinois
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Mapping Inequality: Redlining in New Deal America

In the 1930s, the federal government created redlining maps for almost every major U.S. city. Explore those maps and their contexts in a brand new version of this project.
by N. D. B. Connolly, Robert K. Nelson, LaDale Winling, Justin Madron, Todd Michney, Richard Marciano, J. S. Hoffman, Helen C. S. Meier via American Panorama on October 12, 2016
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Economic Inequality

Histories of wealth disparity in the US, those who have challenged it, and those who have exploited it.
Portrait of Alexander Hamilton

The Hamilton Cult

Has the celebrated musical eclipsed the man himself?
by Robert Sullivan via Harper’s on October 1, 2016
Policemen with nightsticks dragging Black man down the street.
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The Reason in the Riot

Senator Fred Harris describes his experience on the Kerner Commission, tasked with explaining the causes of urban riots in 1967.
via BackStory on August 18, 2016
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If Trump and Sanders Are Both Populists, What Does Populism Mean?

Headlines tell us that the campaigns of Donald Trump and Bernie Sanders have both opened a new chapter of populist politics. How is that possible?
by Charles Postel via The American Historian on August 1, 2016

The Longest March

In August 1966, the Chicago Freedom Movement, Martin Luther King’s campaign to break the grip of segregation, reached its violent culmination.
by David Bernstein via Chicago Magazine on July 25, 2016

From "War on Crime" to War on the Black Community

The enduring impact of President Johnson’s Crime Commission.
by Elizabeth Hinton via Boston Review on June 21, 2016
Bank in Revere, Massachusetts.

Partisan Banking and the Emergence of Free Banking in Early 19th-Century Massachusetts

The critical role that banking played in the political struggles of early American history.
by Nicholas Curott via Dissertation Reviews on April 21, 2016
Black and white photo of Woodrow Wilson and his cabinet sitting around a conference table.

How the Black Middle Class Was Attacked By Woodrow Wilson’s Administration

A historian looks at the widespread racism in the American progressive movement of the early 20th century.
by Eric S. Yellin via The Conversation on February 8, 2016
Bill Clinton in front of a poster that reads "New Democrats".

Atari Democrats

As organized labor lost strength, the Democratic Party turned to professional-class voters to shore up its base.
by Lily Geismer via Jacobin on February 8, 2016
Tents at Resurrection City, 1968.

A Place for the Poor: Resurrection City

In 1968, impoverished Americans flocked to DC to live out MLK's final dream: economic equality for all.
by Jenna Goff via Boundary Stones on July 14, 2015
Malcolm X sitting on a couch

A Rare Interview with Malcolm X

On the religion, segregation, the civil rights movement, violence, and hypocrisy.
by Eleanor Fischer, Stephen Nessen via WNYC on February 4, 2015

The Case for Reparations

Until we reckon with our compounding moral debts, America will never be whole.
by Ta-Nehisi Coates via The Atlantic on June 23, 2014

The Twin Insurgency

The postmodern state is under siege from plutocrats and criminals who unknowingly compound each other’s insidiousness.
by Nils Gilman via The American Interest on June 15, 2014

The Massive Liberal Failure on Race, Part III

The Civil Rights movement ignored one very important, very difficult question. It’s time to answer it.
by Tanner Colby via Slate on February 27, 2014
LBJ signing the Civil Rights Act of 1964.

The Massive Liberal Failure on Race, Part II

Affirmative action doesn't work. It never did. It's time for a new solution.
by Tanner Colby via Slate on February 10, 2014

Before Greed

There was a time when Americans valued 'competency' over riches and saw wealth as the cause of poverty.
by Richard White via Boston Review on June 7, 2013
Income tax form

Tax Time

Why we pay.
by Jill Lepore via The New Yorker on November 19, 2012

Lee Atwater’s Infamous 1981 Interview on the Southern Strategy

The 42 minute recording, acquired by James Carter IV, confirms Atwater’s incendiary remarks and places them in context.
by Rick Perlstein via The Nation on November 13, 2012
Soldiers around tanks on the street.

Want to Understand the 1992 LA Riots? Start with the 1984 LA Olympics

The causes were many, but police brutality and economic insecurity were supercharged in Los Angeles after the 1984 Olympics. 
by Dave Zirin via The Nation on April 30, 2012
Six-panel illustration of debtors' prisons.

I.O.U.

What replaced imprisonment for debt was something that has become a mainstay of American life: bankruptcy.
by Jill Lepore via The New Yorker on April 6, 2009
Black and white divided star on the cover of "Two Nations" by Andrew Hacker.

The American Dilemma

The moral contradiction of a nation torn between allegiance to its highest ideals and awareness of the base realities of racial discrimination.
by David Brion Davis via New York Review of Books on July 16, 1992
Martin Luther King Jr.

Martin Luther King Jr.’s Call For a Poor People’s Campaign

In early 1968, the activist planned a massive protest in the nation’s capital.
by Martin Luther King Jr. via The Atlantic on March 20, 1968
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
Cover of book. Red text on a blue background with stickers of Karl Marx's face arranged like the 50 stars.

Marx: The Fourth Boom

Were you to vanish Marx from every library, you’d destroy the central interlocutor around which most of capitalism is built.
by Devin Thomas O’Shea via Los Angeles Review of Books on May 27, 2025
Mark Zuckerberg, Elon Musk, and Jeff Bezos photoshopped into a picture of Gilded Age millionaires.

Enjoying the Sweet Stink of The Gilded Age in the Age of Billionaires

On sanitized depictions of the 19th century, comfort shows, and income inequality.
by Danielle Teller via Literary Hub on May 15, 2025
Title card for "Legacies of Eugenics" series, with a drawing of a form board for teaching shapes.

Trumpian “Common Sense” and the History of IQ Tests

On the troubling history of IQ tests and special education.
by Pepper Stetler via Los Angeles Review of Books on May 8, 2025
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Tax Season and the Making of the American Fiscal State

As Americans file their taxes this tax season, the Trump administration threatens to unravel the modern fiscal state.
by John Fabian Witt, Ajay K. Mehrotra via Made By History on April 16, 2025
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