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Reflections on a Silent Soldier

After the television cameras went away, a North Carolina city debated the future of its toppled Confederate statue.
by Robin Kirk via The American Scholar on September 3, 2019
Illustration of white Quakers with enslaved Africans in the background.

Slavery in the Quaker World

Christian slavery and white supremacy.
by Katharine Gerbner via Friends Journal on September 1, 2019
Nina Simone

The Remarkable Story of the Drive to Preserve Nina Simone's Childhood Home

Simone's birthplace in Tryon, North Carolina, was declared a National Treasure. Now, local events celebrate her and raise money for preservation efforts.
by Sarah Edwards via INDY Week on August 14, 2019

The Assassin Next Door

My family’s immigrant journey and James Earl Ray’s path to targeting MLK, Jr., intersected at a corner of East Hollywood.
by Hector Tobar via The New Yorker on July 22, 2019
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.
Illustrated figures sit inside a pink triangle embedded with gender markers.

An Oral History of the Early Trans Internet

Trans people have existed since the dawn of time. The internet has not.
by Henry Giardina via Gizmodo on July 9, 2019

‘Some Suburb of Hell’: America’s New Concentration Camp System

The longer a camp system stays open, the more likely it is that vital things will go wrong.
by Andrea Pitzer via New York Review of Books on June 21, 2019
Daveed Diggs and Lin Manuel Miranda on stage in the musical Hamilton.

Notes Toward an Essay on Imagining Thomas Jefferson Watching a Performance of the Musical "Hamilton"

"But he'd have to acknowledge that the soul of his country is southern; the soul of his country is black."
by Randall Kenan, Ginnie Hsu via Southern Cultures on June 1, 2019
Hands waving US and pride flags during the National LGBT Anniversary Ceremony in front of Independence Hall in Philadelphia on July 4, 2015.
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How Eugenics Gave Rise To Modern Homophobia

The roots of anti-gay attitudes lay in white supremacy.
by Hugh Ryan via Made By History on May 28, 2019
Teenage students in a classroom.

What It Felt Like

If “living history” role-plays in the classroom can so easily go wrong, why do teachers keep assigning them?
by Rebecca Onion via Slate on May 20, 2019

Necessary to the Security of a Free State

On the history of the second amendment, white militias, and border vigilantism.
by Angelo Guisado via Current Affairs on May 8, 2019
Black doctors.
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The 1910 Report That Disadvantaged Minority Doctors

A century ago, the Flexner Report led to the closure of 75% of U.S. medical schools. It still explains a lot about today’s unequal access to healthcare.
by Jessie Wright-Mendoza, Lynne E. Miller, Richard M. Weiss via JSTOR Daily on May 3, 2019

The Tragedy of 'The Tragedy of the Commons'

The man who wrote one of environmentalism’s most-cited essays was a racist, eugenicist, nativist and Islamaphobe.
by Matto Mildenberger via Scientific American on April 23, 2019
Illustration of video of Columbine shooters

20 Years Later, Columbine Is The Spectacle The Shooters Wanted

Searching for meaning in the shooters’ infamous “basement tapes.”
by Andy Warner via The Nib on April 17, 2019

The Historic Women's Suffrage March on Washington

On March 3, 1913, thousands of women gathered in Washington D.C. for the Women's Suffrage Parade -- the first mass protest for a woman's right to vote.
by Michelle Mehrtens via TED on March 4, 2019

Bearing Risks and Being Watched

The individualization of risk that we often think of as part of neoliberalism already existed strongly in the early 20th century.
by Greta R. Krippner via Public Books on February 26, 2019

Black Farmworkers in the Central Valley: Escaping Jim Crow for a Subtler Kind of Racism

"The difference between here and the South is just that — it's hidden."
by Alexandra Hall via KQED on February 22, 2019

The Women Who Contributed to Science but Were Buried in Footnotes

In a new study, researchers uncovered female programmers who made important but unrecognized contributions to genetics.
by Ed Yong via The Atlantic on February 11, 2019
Martin Luther King Jr. speaking into news microphones.

MLK Warned Us of the Well-Intentioned Liberal

Dr. King did not compromise on racial justice. Neither should we.
by Jonathan Wilson-Hartgrove, William J. Barber II via The Nation on January 18, 2019

In Found Audio, a Forgotten Civil Rights Leader Says Coming Out Was an Absolute Necessity

Though Bayard Rustin, close adviser to Martin Luther King Jr., was gay, his legacy is not well known in the queer community.
by Michel Martin via NPR on January 6, 2019
A modern adaption of Howard Chandler Christy’s 1940 painting, “Scene at the Signing of the Constitution of the United States,” with contemporary players on both sides of the judicial contest.

How The Federalist Society is Helping Conservatives Win The Judicial War

It isn’t just about Supreme Court picks. The group’s impact on the law goes much deeper.
by David Montgomery via Washington Post Magazine on January 2, 2019

A New Way of Seeing 200 Years of American Immigration

To depict how waves of immigrants shaped the United States, a team of designers looked to nature as a model.
by Tanvi Misra via CityLab on December 17, 2018
Graphic symbolizing a college stopping African Americans from entering the door.

What We Get Wrong About Affirmative Action

The lawsuit against Harvard forces us to talk about Asian Americans' role in the racial equity debate.
via Vox on December 10, 2018
Finely decorated women's restroom lounge

The Glamorous, Sexist History of the Women’s Restroom Lounge

Separate areas with sofas, vanities, and even writing tables used to put the “rest” in women’s restrooms. Why were these spaces built, and why did they vanish?
by Elizabeth Yuko via CityLab on December 3, 2018

African-American Veterans Hoped Their Service in WWI Would Secure Their Rights at Home. It Didn't.

Black people emerged from the war bloodied and scarred. Still, the war marked a turning point in their struggles for freedom.
by Chad Williams via TIME on November 12, 2018
Image of Hassan, a Syrian-American man

Syrian in Sioux Falls

In the 1920s, Syrian-Americans were compelled to prove their worth in a society where nativism was on the rise and citizenship often meant being considered white.
by Chris Gratien via Ottoman History Podcast on November 5, 2018

The Original Constitution of the United States: Religion, Race, and Gender

The Constitution of 2018 is not the Constitution written by the Framers in 1787, and no one should wish otherwise.
by Richard D. Brown via Medium on September 20, 2018

Rereading Childhood Books Teaches Adults About Themselves

Whether they delight or disappoint, old books provide touchstones for tracking personal growth.
by Emma Court via The Atlantic on July 27, 2018

My Great-Grandfather, the Nigerian Slave-Trader

White traders couldn’t have loaded their ships without help from Africans like my great-grandfather.
by Adaobi Tricia Nwaubani via The New Yorker on July 15, 2018

The Disappearing Story of the Black Homesteaders Who Pioneered The West

Once-vibrant African American homesteading communities are falling to ruin.
by Richard Edwards via Washington Post on July 5, 2018
Laura Ingalls Wilder

Librarians without Chests: A Response to the ALSC’s Denigration of Laura Ingalls Wilder

A network of professional librarians seeks to destroy a beloved literary heroine and malign her creator.
by Dedra McDonald Birzer via National Review on June 26, 2018
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