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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
Willie Nelson at the 1973 Fourth of July Picnic, in Dripping Springs.

That ’70s Show

Forty years ago, Willie, Waylon, Jerry Jeff, and a whole host of Texas misfits brought the hippies and rednecks together in outlaw country.
by John Spong via Texas Monthly on January 21, 2013

How Columbus Day Fell Victim to Its Own Success

It's worth remembering that the now-controversial holiday started as a way to empower immigrants and celebrate American diversity.
by Yoni Appelbaum via The Atlantic on October 8, 2012
A nurse cares for a patient in bed
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The Health of a Nation

Political scientist Jacob Hacker explains how we wound up with a healthcare system so different from the European model, and why lobbyists hold so much sway.
via BackStory on October 1, 2009
Exhibit

“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.
A cream colored map depicting the Middle Passage and trade routes between North America, South America, Africa, and Europe.

What Was Africa to Them?

How historians have understood Africa and the Black diaspora in global conversations about race and identity.
by Kwame Anthony Appiah via New York Review of Books on September 27, 2007

Great Migration Debates: Keywords in Historical Perspective

The use of the word "immigrant" in contemporary debates often reflects a lack of understanding of U.S. immigration history.
by Donna Gabaccia via Social Science Research Council on July 28, 2006
Ted Kaczynski being led by two law enforcement officers.

Harvard and the Making of the Unabomber

Purposely brutalizing psychological experiments may have confirmed Theodore Kaczynski’s still-forming belief in the evil of science while he was in college.
by Alston Chase via The Atlantic on June 1, 2000
Mack Robinson.
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Black Champions: Interview with Mack Robinson

Olympic track and field athlete reflects on the exclusion of African Americans from professional sports and the role his brother Jackie played in changing that.
via American Archive of Public Broadcasting on May 21, 1985
Jim Brown.
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Black Champions: Interview with Jim Brown

On inclusion of African American athletes in college sports.
via American Archive of Public Broadcasting on January 19, 1985
Oscar Robertson
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Black Champions: Interview with Oscar Robertson

On coaches' unequal treatment of African American college basketball players.
by Clayton Riley via American Archive of Public Broadcasting on December 13, 1984

The Unacknowledged Lesson: Earl Warren and the Japanese Relocation Controversy

Though best known for his dedication to civil rights as Chief Justice, Earl Warren was a key figure behind Japanese internment in California - and stood by it.
by G. Edward White via VQR on October 15, 1979
Filmmaker William Greaves at a desk with turntables, film reels, and screens.
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The Black Filmmaker

A look at racism in movie-making.
by Black Journal via American Archive of Public Broadcasting on September 28, 1970
Man interviewing a group of people on the street.
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James Baldwin Comments on the Kerner Commission

The Kerner Commission was credited with exposing systemic racism that inspired resistance in Black communities. James Baldwin argued that it stated the obvious.
by Public Broadcast Laboratory via American Archive of Public Broadcasting on March 3, 1968

Remarks at the Signing of the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1965

President Lyndon B. Johnson, Liberty Island, New York, October 3, 1965.
by Lyndon Baines Johnson via LBJ Presidential Library on October 3, 1965
Still from “The Rejected,” a 1961 documentary about homosexuals. Hal Call (at right), president of the Mattachine Society and Don Lucas, Mattachine’s executive secretary. Credit: San Francisco Bay Area Television Archive
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The Homosexual in Our Society

This 1958 interview is the earliest known radio recording to overtly discuss homosexuality.
by Blanche M. Baker, KPFA, Elsa Knight Thompson, Harold Leland Call, Leah Gailey via American Archive of Public Broadcasting on November 24, 1958
Woman hanging a poster of Hitler with a string of Nazi flags above it.

Who Goes Nazi?

The view from 1941.
by Dorothy Thompson via Harper’s on August 1, 1941
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

Strivings of the Negro People

Du Bois’ 1897 essay describes the “double consciousness” of African Americans who are “shut out from their world by a vast veil.”
by W.E.B. Du Bois via The Atlantic on August 1, 1897
Henry McNeal Turner.

Am I a Man?: The Fiery 1868 Speech By An Expelled Black Legislator In Georgia

The expulsion of two Black lawmakers from the Tennessee House recalls an earlier expulsion of dozens of Black lawmakers from Georgia's General Assembly.
by Henry McNeal Turner, Benjamin Barber via Facing South on September 3, 1868
Manuscript page of Stephen Austin's contract to bring settlers to Texas.

Stephen Austin's Contract to Bring Settlers to Texas

A spotlight on a primary source.
by Stephen F. Austin via Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History on June 4, 1825
"We The People" Constitution on top of many folders of paper.

Conservatives Want the Antebellum Constitution Back

The Fourteenth and Fifteenth Amendments are in trouble.
by Adam Serwer via The Atlantic on December 21, 2025
The First Thanksgiving, 1621, by Jean Leon Gerome Ferris (1863–1930). (Universal History Archive / Universal Images Group via Getty Images)

The Pilgrims Were Doomsday Cultists

The settlers who arrived in Plymouth were not escaping religious persecution. They left on the Mayflower to establish a theocracy in the Americas.
by Jane Borden via The Nation on November 26, 2025
U.S. Supreme Court

On the Sweeping Supreme Court Decision That Led to Widespread High School Censorship

A look at the long history of censorship in public school yearbooks.
by Kate Eichhorn via Literary Hub on November 25, 2025
Ken Burns

No, Ken Burns, the United States Is Not an Iroquois Nation

The Founders didn’t model us on the Six Nations, and George Washington didn’t tomahawk a Frenchman.
by Dan McLaughlin via National Review on November 22, 2025
Illustration by Anna Ruch, featuring founder Thomas Jefferson.

Tell Students the Truth About American History

We owe it to Americans of all ages to be honest about the country’s past, including its contradictions.
by Clint Smith via The Atlantic on November 16, 2025
Charles Garland with his wife and dog in 1921.

When the Tax Code Nudged Americans Toward Nonviolence

Chronicling the influence of the American Fund for Public Service.
by John Fabian Witt via HistPhil on October 27, 2025
A man stealing a painting, with images of maps, fingerprints, rings, and a building.

The Hardest-Working Art Thief in History

The 'Social Register' was a who’s who of America’s rich and powerful. It was also the perfect hit list.
by Jack Rodolico via The Atavist on October 25, 2025
John Lewis.

You Must Do Something

Tracing John Lewis’s lifelong fight for democracy and inclusion.
by Randall Kennedy via London Review of Books on October 17, 2025
Theodore Roosevelt

The Progressive President and the AHA

Theodore Roosevelt and the historical discipline.
by Bruce W. Dearstyne via Perspectives on History on October 14, 2025
Black and white icons of people gathered into the shape of the US.

Are You a ‘Heritage American’?

Why some on the right want to know if your ancestors were here during the Civil War.
by Ali Breland via The Atlantic on October 7, 2025
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