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America's Black Soldiers

The long history behind the Army's Jim Crow forts.
by Elizabeth D. Samet via The American Scholar on July 11, 2020

The US Suffragette Movement Tried to Leave Out Black Women. They Showed Up Anyway

Racism and sexism were bound together in the fight to vote – and Black women made it clear they would never cede the question of their voting rights to others.
by Martha S. Jones via The Guardian on July 7, 2020
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"It Has Not Been My Habit to Yield"

Charles Sumner and the fight for equal naturalization rights.
by Lucy E. Salyer via HNN on July 5, 2020
Lithograph of a Black man appealing to liberty and justice.

Dreams of a Revolution Deferred

How African-Americans in Early America celebrated the Declaration of Independence's ideals, even as basic freedoms were denied to them.
by Derrick R. Spires via Uncommon Sense on June 30, 2020
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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.
Still from animated TV show Big Mouth

The Messy Politics of Black Voices—and “Black Voice”—in American Animation

Cartoons have often been considered exempt from the country’s prejudices. In fact, they form a genre built on the marble and mud of racial signification.
by Lauren Michele Jackson via The New Yorker on June 30, 2020

The Past and Future of Latinx Politics

Two new books look at the history of Latinx Democrats and Republicans and the role each will play in the future.
by Ed Morales via The Nation on June 30, 2020
Two statues next to each other

Confederates in the Capitol

The National Statuary Collection announced the unification of the former slave economy’s emotional heartland with the heart of national government.
by William Hogeland via Boston Review on June 29, 2020

The Ancestry Project

Sometimes I learned more Black history in a week at home than I did in a lifetime of Februarys at school.
by Mariah Stovall via The Paris Review on June 29, 2020

Asian Americans Are Still Caught in the Trap of the ‘Model Minority’ Stereotype

Generations of Asian Americans have struggled to prove an Americanness that should not need to be proven.
by Viet Thanh Nguyen via TIME on June 26, 2020

The Republican Choice

How a party spent decades making itself white.
by Clare Malone via FiveThirtyEight on June 24, 2020

The Power of Empty Pedestals

After Governor Northam announced its removal, two Richmond historians reflect on the legacy of the Lee Monument.
by Gregory D. Smithers, Michael Dickinson via The Bitter Southerner on June 23, 2020

The History That James Baldwin Wanted America to See

For Baldwin, the past had always been bent in service of a lie. Could a true story be told?
by Eddie S. Glaude Jr. via The New Yorker on June 19, 2020
A group of seven black sharecroppers stand by the road.

Black Americans, Crucial Workers in Crises, Emerge Worse Off – Not Better

In many national crises, black Americans have been essential workers – but serving in crucial roles has not resulted in economic equality.
by Calvin Schermerhorn via The Conversation on June 17, 2020
Painting of a sinking ship on fire, in which the fire looks like the American flag.

The Confederate Project

What the Confederacy actually was: a proslavery anti-democratic state, dedicated to the proposition that all men were not created equal.
by Stephanie McCurry via Medium on June 16, 2020

Richmond’s Confederate Monuments Were Used to Sell a Segregated Neighborhood

Real-estate developers used the statues to draw white buyers to a neighborhood where houses couldn't be sold “to any person of African descent.”
by Kevin M. Levin via The Atlantic on June 11, 2020

Now Do Lincoln

Protesters are tearing down statues of Columbus and other villains of history. The true test will come when they reckon with their heroes.
by Nick Martin via The New Republic on June 11, 2020

America Begins to See More Clearly Now What Its Black Citizens Always Knew

The present round of protest is different. The participants are people of every race, ethnicity, sex, age, and religion.
by Theodore R. Johnson III via National Review on June 11, 2020

Rewriting Country Music's Racist History

Artists like Yola and Rhiannon Giddens are blowing up what Giddens calls a “manufactured image of country music being white and being poor.”
by Elamin Abdelmahmoud via Rolling Stone on June 5, 2020

Black Women’s 200 Year Fight for the Vote

For two centuries, black women have linked their ballot access to the human rights of all.
by Martha S. Jones via PBS NewsHour on June 3, 2020

The Patriot Slave

The dangerous myth that blacks in bondage chose not to be free in revolutionary America.
by Farah Peterson via The American Scholar on June 2, 2020
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The Police Chief Who Inspired Trump’s Tweet Glorifying Violence

Trump echoed a former Miami police chief’s anti-black words and animus.
by Julio Capó Jr. via Made By History on June 1, 2020
Historical marker in Artillery Park.

Cast in Iron?

Rethinking our historical monuments.
by Jaime Fuller via AdirondackLife on June 1, 2020
Formal photo of twelve African American naval officers.

The Forgotten Story of How 13 Black Men Broke the Navy’s Toughest Color Barrier

During World War II, a group of African American sailors was chosen to integrate the Naval Officer Corps, forever changing what was possible in the U.S. Navy.
by Dan Goldberg via Politico Magazine on May 25, 2020
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One Parallel for the Coronavirus Crisis? The Great Depression

“The idea that the federal government would be providing emergency relief and emergency work was extraordinary,” one sociologist said. “And people liked it.”
by Livia Gershon via JSTOR Daily on May 20, 2020
Gateway Arch in St. Louis.
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The West Is Relevant to Our Long History of Anti-Blackness, Not Just the South

Revisiting the Missouri Compromise should transform how we think about white American expansion.
by Walter Johnson via Made By History on May 17, 2020

COVID-19 and the Color Line

Due to racist policies, Black Americans are dying of COVID-19 at much higher rates than whites, and nowhere more so than in St. Louis.
by Colin Gordon, Walter Johnson, Jamala Rogers, Jason Q. Purnell via Boston Review on April 30, 2020

Indian Removal

One of the world's first mass deportations, bureaucratically managed and large-scale, took place on American soil.
by Claudio Saunt via Aeon on April 23, 2020

Another Time a President Used the “Emergency” Excuse to Restrict Immigration

It was 1921, and it changed the character of the United States for decades.
by Joshua Zeitz via Politico Magazine on April 22, 2020
Donald Trump seen through a window reflecting a fence.
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President Trump’s Immigration Suspension Has Nothing to Do With Coronavirus

Restrictionists have long sought to cut U.S. immigration — to zero.
by Carly Goodman via Made By History on April 22, 2020
Nurse Minnie Sun holding a baby in the Chinese Hospital

When Chinese Americans Were Blamed for 19th-Century Epidemics, They Built Their Own Hospital

The Chinese Hospital in San Francisco is still one-of-a-kind.
by Laureen Hom, Claire Wang via Atlas Obscura on April 13, 2020
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