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Liquor shop operated by Patrick J. Kennedy, storefront reading "Cotter and Kennedy"
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Bridget the Grocer and the First American Kennedys

History has paid little attention to Bridget Kennedy, JFK’s widowed great-grandmother, who managed both her family and business in Boston's anti-Irish climate.
by Neal Thompson via HNN on February 27, 2022
Hasiba N. Ali conducts a class at the Clara Muhammad School in Southeast Washington in 2001.
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Inequality Has Long Driven Black Parents to Pull Children From Public Schools

What’s happening amid the coronavirus pandemic is nothing new.
by Amaarah DeCuir via Made By History on February 24, 2022
Postcard of Marshall Field & Co.’s Retail Store, Chicago.

Race and Class Identities in Early American Department Stores

Built on the momentum of earlier struggles for justice, the department store movement channeled the power of workers and consumers to promote black freedom.
by Traci Parker, Phillip Loken via UNC Press Blog on February 23, 2022
Collage of photos: author's grandfather, Shigeki, in his army uniform; his house; an internment camp.

My Family Lost Our Farm During Japanese Incarceration. I Went Searching for What Remains.

When Executive Order 9066 forcibly removed my family from their community 80 years ago, we lost more than I realized.
by Ruth Chizuko Murai via Mother Jones on February 18, 2022
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“All Persons Born or Naturalized in the United States...”

A collection of resources exploring the evolving meanings of American citizenship and how they have been applied -- or denied -- to different groups of Americans.
Erin Jackson of the United States holds an American flag after winning the gold medal in the speedskating women's 500-meter race at the 2022 Winter Olympics in Beijing, on Feb. 13.
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The Hidden History That Explains Why Team USA is Overwhelmingly White

Exclusion and violence in Western U.S. states help explain the Whiteness of winter sports.
by Sherri Sheu via Made By History on February 17, 2022
From center: Saundra Williams, the first crowned Miss Black America (1969). At left, 2nd runner-up Linda Johnson; on the right is Theresa Claytor, who was the first runner-up.
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The History of Beauty Pageants Reveals the Limits of Black Representation

Black contestants — and winners — have not translated into changed beauty standards or structural transformation.
by Mickell Carter via Made By History on February 16, 2022
Stack of Latino history books with checkmark on top

There’s No Such Thing As ‘The Latino Vote’

Why can’t America see that?
by Geraldo Cadava via The Atlantic on February 14, 2022
Children learning about Thanksgiving, with model log cabin on table, Whittier Primary School, Hampton, Virginia circa 1900.

Fugitive Pedagogy

Jarvis Givens rediscovers the underground history of black schooling.
by Lydialyle Gibson via Harvard Magazine on February 11, 2022
Collage of a residential security map.

The Lasting Legacy Of Redlining

We looked at 138 formerly redlined cities and found most were still segregated — just like they were designed to be.
by Ryan Best, Elena Mejía via FiveThirtyEight on February 9, 2022
Pink tinted photograph of women on the beach lifting barbells

Nevertheless, She Lifted

A new feminist history of women and exercise glosses over the darker side of fitness culture.
by Meghan Racklin via The Baffler on February 7, 2022
Protest sign reading "We never left Jim Crow."

Voter Fraud Propagandists Are Recycling Jim Crow Rhetoric

The conservative plot to suppress the Black vote has relied on racist caricatures, then and now.
by Nick Tabor via The New Republic on February 4, 2022
Portrait of Dorothy Day in black and white in 1916

‘Don’t Call Me a Saint’

In her lifetime, Dorothy Day rejected canonization for herself. Now revived, this bad idea would only diminish the founder of the Catholic Worker Movement.
by Garry Wills via New York Review of Books on January 26, 2022
Side profile of Nikole Hannah-Jones

What the 1619 Project Means

Nothing could be more toxic to our ongoing effort to build a multiracial democracy than to cast any race as a perennial hero or villain.
by Helen Andrews via First Things on January 23, 2022
Cameron Maynard stands at attention by the monument to Confederate soldiers at the South Carolina Statehouse on July 10, 2017, in Columbia, S.C.
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What We’ve Gotten Wrong About the History of Reconstruction

The erasure of Black leaders from the most misunderstood period in American history.
by Robert Greene II, Tyler D. Parry via Made By History on January 23, 2022
A picture of George Aumoithe in a hallway of concrete walls.

Learning From Decades of Public Health Failure

A historian of global health explains how the lack of ICU beds in low-income communities is the result of government spending cuts dating back to the 1970s.
by George Aumoithe, Daniel Steinmetz-Jenkins via The Nation on January 19, 2022
Close up image of a Catholic leader raising his hand.

The Untold Stories of AIDS and the Catholic Church

Amid all the suffering and death, friends and supporters arose in unexpected—often religious—places.
by Eric C. Miller, Michael J. O'Loughlin via Arc: Religion, Politics, Et Cetera on January 18, 2022
Black and white photograph of Lorraine Hansberry smoking a cigarette.

The Many Visions of Lorraine Hansberry

She’s been canonized as a hero of both mainstream literature and radical politics. Who was she really?
by Blair McClendon via The New Yorker on January 17, 2022
A large federal style brick house, the William Paca House in Annapolis, Md.

I Searched for Answers About My Enslaved Ancestor. I Found Questions About America

'Did slavery make home always somewhere else?'
by Imani Perry via TIME on January 13, 2022
Group of child laborers
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The Age of the Birth Certificate

When states began restricting labor by children, verifying a person's age became an important means of enforcement.
by Matthew Wills, Susan J. Pearson via JSTOR Daily on January 12, 2022
Anto-CRT protestors at the Pennsylvania state Capitol.

Teaching (amid a) White Backlash

A brief scholarly overview to understand the contours of white backlashes, their historical impact, and the ways they shape the world we inherit.
by William Horne via Clio and the Contemporary on January 12, 2022
Collage of nature images and transcendentalists' faces, with flowers in Emerson's eyes.

Emerson and Thoreau’s Fanatical Freedom

Why do the Transcendentalists still have an outsize influence on American culture?
by Sarah Blackwood via The New Republic on January 6, 2022
Ballots in sealed envelopes, in a plastic box with a sticker that reads "Vote NYC."
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You Didn’t Always Have to Be a Citizen to Vote in America

The electorate has consistently changed over time as politicians seek to shape it in their favor.
by Rachel Michelle Gunter via Made By History on December 29, 2021
Black-and-white image of two men behind bar

The Gilded Age In a Glass: From Innovation to Prohibition

Cocktails — the ingredients, the stories, the pageantry — can reveal more than expected about the Gilded Age.
by Zachary Veith via The Gotham Center on December 28, 2021
A migrant from Haiti prays with a Bible on her head during a Mass at an improvised refugee shelter in Ciudad Acuña on Sept. 21.
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In Its Early Days, the United States Provided Haven to People Fleeing Haiti

Extending that compassion today could reverse past wrongs.
by Walker Mimms via Made By History on December 16, 2021
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
Clockwise from left: William Dawson, Marian Anderson, William Grant Still, Florence Price. Background features the score of Price’s Violin Concerto No. 2.

Classical Music and the Color Line

Despite its universalist claims, the field is reckoning with a long legacy of racial exclusion.
by Douglas Shadle via Boston Review on December 15, 2021

Modern-day Culture Wars are Playing Out on Historic Tours of Slaveholding Plantations

Romanticized notions of Southern gentility are at odds with historical reality as the lives, culture and contributions of the enslaved are becoming integral on tours.
by Kelley Fanto Deetz via The Conversation on December 6, 2021
Japanese migrants gather in Lima, Peru, in December 1941

America’s Forgotten Internment

The United States confined 2,200 Latin Americans of Japanese descent during World War II. They’re still pushing for redress.
by Jesús A. Rodríguez via Politico Magazine on December 5, 2021
logo for the website, a clouded background and the words Law and Political Economy Project.

The Long History of Anti-CRT Politics

The history of anti-racial justice rhetoric.
by Aziz Rana via LPE Project on November 30, 2021
A Black man sits at his dining room looking through property records

Racial Covenants, a Relic of the Past, Are Still on the Books Across the Country

Racial covenants made it illegal for Black people to live in white neighborhoods. Now they're illegal, but you may still have one on your home's deed.
by Natalie Y. Moore via NPR on November 17, 2021
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