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One Hundred Years Ago, a Four-Day Race Riot Engulfed Washingon D.C.

Rumors ran wild as white mobs assaulted black residents who in turn fought back, refusing to be intimidated.
by Patrick Sauer via Smithsonian Magazine on July 17, 2019

The Deadly Race Riot ‘Aided and Abetted’ by the Washington Post a Century Ago

A front-page article helped incite the violence in the nation’s capital that left as many as 39 dead.
by Gillian Brockell via Retropolis on July 15, 2019
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Paying for the Past: Reparations and American History

Reparations for African-Americans has been a hot topic on the presidential campaign trail, but the debate goes back centuries.
via BackStory on May 24, 2019
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The Civilian Solution to Bank Robberies

The surprising story of the vigilantes who took it upon themselves to catch bank robbers in the 1920s and 30s.
by Erin Blakemore, Paul Musgrave via JSTOR Daily on May 17, 2019

When Good Scientists Go Bad

Science doesn’t make you magically objective, and it’s not separate from the rest of human experience.
by Maki Naro, Matthew Francis via The Nib on May 15, 2019

Maligned in Black and White

Southern newspapers played a major role in racial violence. Do they owe their communities an apology?
by Mark I. Pinsky via Poynter on May 8, 2019
Lithograph of the Reconstruction-era Black Senators and Congressmen.

How the South Won the Civil War

During Reconstruction, true citizenship finally seemed in reach for black Americans. Then their dreams were dismantled.
by Adam Gopnik via The New Yorker on April 1, 2019

Appalachian Women Fought for Workers Long Before They Fought for Jobs

Two new books recount the leading role women have played in Appalachian social justice movements.
by Heather Duncan via Scalawag on March 25, 2019

How Violent American Vigilantes at the Border Led to Trump’s Wall

From the 80s onwards, the borderlands were rife with paramilitary cruelty and racism. But the president’s rhetoric has thrown fuel on the fire.
by Greg Grandin via The Guardian on February 28, 2019

Dry Times in the Highest State: Colorado’s Prohibition Movement

Placing Colorado’s early adoption of Prohibition in social and political context.
by Sam Bock via Erstwhile: A History Blog on February 27, 2019

Blackface, KKK Hoods and Mock Lynchings: Review of 900 Yearbooks Finds Blatant Racism

In an extensive search of college yearbooks, we found blackface and Ku Klux Klan photos like Ralph Northam's far beyond Virginia.
by Brett Murphy via USA Today on February 21, 2019

Yes, Politicians Wore Blackface. It Used to be All-American ‘Fun.’

Minstrel shows were once so mainstream that even presidents watched them.
by Rhae Lynn Barnes via Washington Post on February 8, 2019
Poster for minstrelsy cake walk
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The Faces of Racism

A history of blackface and minstrelsy in American culture.
via BackStory on February 8, 2019

The Destruction of Black Wall Street

Tulsa’s Greenwood neighborhood was a prosperous center of Black wealth. Until a white mob wiped it out.
by Chelsea Saunders via The Nib on February 4, 2019
Screen shot from Red Dead Redemption 2, of a man in western clothing smoking a cigarette.

Red Dead Redemption 2 Confronts the Racist Past and Lets You Do Something About It

Poke around the game’s fictional South and you’ll find cross-burning Klansmen, whom you are free to kill.
by Jonathan S. Jones via Slate on February 4, 2019
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The Troubling History Behind Ralph Northam’s Blackface Klan Photo

How blackface shaped Virginia politics and culture for more than a century.
by Rhae Lynn Barnes via Made By History on February 2, 2019

The Border Patrol has Been a Cult of Brutality Since 1924

The U.S. needs a historical reckoning with the true cause of the border crisis: the long, brutal history of border enforcement itself.
by Greg Grandin via The Intercept on January 12, 2019
Woodrow Wilson speaking to Congress.
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We’re Still Haunted by Our Failure to Grapple with the Dark Side of World War I

Changes wrought by the war still shape America today.
by Christopher McKnight Nichols via Made By History on November 11, 2018
Pat Buchanan surrounded by balloons at a campaign rally.

The Year the Clock Broke

How the world we live in already happened in 1992.
by John Ganz via The Baffler on November 5, 2018

How "America First" Ruined the "American Dream"

Author Sarah Churchwell on the entangled history of America’s most loaded phrases.
by Sarah Churchwell, Sean Illing via Vox on October 22, 2018
Historical marker in Memphis telling the history of Nathan Bedford Forrest

Naming the Enslaved, Reconciling the Past in Memphis

The roll call for the names of 74 African Americans sold into slavery by Nathan Bedford Forrest in Memphis was solemn.
by Hannah Baldwin via Southern Poverty Law Center on October 19, 2018
The Alamo.
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Once Again, Texas’s Board of Education Exposed How Poorly We Teach History

We’re not equipping children to become good citizens.
by Jonna Perrillo via Made By History on September 21, 2018

Terrorized African-Americans Found Their Champion in Civil War Hero Robert Smalls

The congressman and former slave claimed whites had killed 53,000 African-Americans. Few took him seriously—until now.
by Lisa Elmaleh Douglas via Smithsonian Magazine on August 22, 2018

Pride and Prejudice? The Americans Who Fly the Confederate Flag

A listening tour in Mississippi asks flag supporters why they still support a symbol that represents pain, division and difficult history.
by Donna Ladd via The Guardian on August 6, 2018

The School Massacre that Shocked Bath, Michigan

The chilling tale of a tragedy that was seemingly erased from the American consciousness.
by Bruce Kaplan via We're History on May 18, 2018
James Baldwin.

The Forgotten Baldwin

Baldwin demands that the Atlanta child murders be more than a mere media spectacle or crime story, and that black lives matter.
by Joseph Vogel via Boston Review on May 14, 2018

White Supremacy Is the Achilles Heel of American Democracy

Even in a high-tech era, fears about minority political agency are the most reliable way to destabilize the U.S. political system.
by Vann R. Newkirk II via The Atlantic on April 17, 2018
White nationalists, neo-Nazis and members of the 'alt-right' clash with counter-protesters at the Unite the Right rally August 12, 2017 in Charlottesville, VA.

The Vietnam War and White Power

A conversation with the author of "Bring the War Home: The White Power Movement and Paramilitary America."
by Kathleen Belew, Sean Illing via Vox on April 13, 2018
White women demonstrators hold signs against school desegregation.

'Segregation's Constant Gardeners': How White Women Kept Jim Crow Alive

Meet the good white mothers, PTA members, and newspaper columnists who were also committed white supremacists.
by Rebecca Stoner via Pacific Standard on April 12, 2018

How Charles Koch Is Helping Neo-Confederates Teach College Students

The Koch Foundation is often praised for its higher-ed funding, but the money is going to some radical professors.
by Alex Kotch via The Nation on March 21, 2018
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