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The Edge of the Map

Monsters have always patrolled the margins of the map. By their very strangeness, they determined the boundaries of the regular world.
An illustration of Barbara Smith.

Until Black Women Are Free, None of Us Will Be Free

Barbara Smith and the Black feminist visionaries of the Combahee River Collective.
President Lyndon B. Johnson signs the Immigration and Naturalization Act of 1965 on Liberty Island in New York Harbor.

The Nativist Tradition

Two recent books put the reemergence of anti-immigrant sentiment in the Trump era into historical relief.
Robert Smalls

What Woodrow Wilson Did to Robert Smalls

We all know, in the abstract, that Wilson was a white supremacist. But here’s how he wielded his racism against one accomplished Black American.
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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.

The cast of "Hamilton" on stage.

Why We’ll Never Stop Arguing About Hamilton

Hamilton is an impossibly slippery text. The arguments over the show are part of what make it great.
Roosevelt statue

Why It's Right That the Theodore Roosevelt Statue Comes Down

Like the museum behind it, the monument was designed in large part to train white people in a fundamentally racist way of seeing.
A close-up of an African-American woman's face and hair

On Liberating the History of Black Hair

Emma Dabiri deconstructs colonial ideas of Blackness.

America’s Long War on Children and Families

Trump’s family separation policy belongs to a much longer history of U.S. government forces taking children from families that don't match the American ideal.
A street of brick storefronts in Cumberland, Kentucky.

Appalachian Hillsides as Black Ecologies: Housing, Memory, and The Sanctified Hill Disaster of 1972

A landslide that exposed racial inequalities embedded in Appalachian communities.
Black and white photo portrait of a woman wearing un-rimmed glasses and a short brimmed hat with a satin bow on it.

Suffrage in Spanish

Hispanic women and the fight for the 19th Amendment in New Mexico.
confederate flag on a fence

Why the Confederate Flag Flew During World War II

As white, southern troops raised the battle flag, they showed that they were fighting for change abroad—but the status quo at home.
From left, actors Bernnadette Stanis, John Amos and Ja'Net Dubois accept the Impact Award for “Good Times” at the 2006 TV Land Awards in Santa Monica, Calif. (Kevin Winter/Getty Images)
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Television Is Already Moving to Address Racism — But Will the Effort Last?

Past network efforts to address racism faded as uprisings stopped dominating headlines.
A sign of the Eastside Speedway

Democracy of Speed

Eighteen years of photographs at a Virginia dragstrip show a multiracial community united by their love of fast cars.
Black and white photo of three African-American men with signs that state, "I am a man," as a military tank rolls through the street

Insurrection in the Eye of the Beholder

The Insurrection Act of 1807, which Trump has threatened to invoke, is the linchpin of several iconic events in African American history.
Drawing of four red fists intersecting the U.S. Capitol building

The Rebirth of Red Power

The tribal sovereignty movement from the late 1960s never really ended. To find the future of the Native left, look to the past.

These Photos Capture the Lives of African American Soldiers Who Served During World War II

Pittsburgh photographer Teenie Harris focused on the patriotism of men who fought for the country abroad while being discriminated against at home.

Racism After Redlining

In "Race for Profit," Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor walks us through the ways racist housing policy survived the abolition of redlining.
Nurses on strike.
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We Had a Better Social Safety Net. Then We Busted Unions.

COVID-19 has taught us all just how frayed our social safety net has become, and how its holes make us all more vulnerable.

Will This Year’s Census Be the Last?

In the past two centuries, the evolution of the U.S. Census has tracked the country’s social tensions and reflected its political controversies.
A drawing in the style of a 1980s video game of shooting at rainbows.

Jesse Jackson’s Political Revolution

Before Bernie Bros vs. the DNC, there was Jesse Jackson vs. the Atari Democrats.

The Vexed History of Zionism and the Left

A new book asks why the left fell out of love with Zionism, but what it reveals is why liberal Zionists fell out of love with the left.

Carrying Community: The Black Midwife’s Bag in the American South

Black midwives were central to community health networks in the South.

How Nativism Went Mainstream

Three decades ago, California was the launchpad for a virulent strain of anti-immigrant politics that soon spread nationwide.

How Black Lives Matter Is Changing What Students Learn During Black History Month

“Whenever there’s a tragedy in black America, there’s always been an uptick of black history courses."

The Fight to Preserve African-American History

Activists and preservationists are changing the kinds of places that are protected—and what it means to preserve them.

The Way We Write History Has Changed

A deep dive into an archive will never be the same.

1619?

What to the historian is 1619? What to Africans and their descendants is 1619?

Higher Education's Reckoning with Slavery

Two decades of activism and scholarship have led to critical self-examination.
John Maynard Keynes

On Horizontal and Vertical Approaches to Intellectual History

There are two ways to understand John Maynard Keynes: tracing his influences and legacies, and highlighting the ideas and perspectives he missed.
Street signs on the corner of Rosa L. Parks Avenue and North Jeff Davis Avenue.

Atlas of Southern Memory

An interactive map of public commemoration of the Civil War and the civil rights movement in the South.

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