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40 Years Ago: A Look Back at 1977

A visual trip back in time to 1977.

by Alan Taylor via The Atlantic on October 16, 2017

Confederacy: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver

John Oliver reflects on the history of Confederate monuments.

by John Oliver via Last Week Tonight on October 8, 2017

Ron Paul.

Libertarians Have More in Common With the Alt-Right Than They Want You To Think

After the alt-right march on Charlottesville, Matt Lewis pointed out the existence of a “libertarian to alt-right pipeline."

by John Ganz via Washington Post on September 19, 2017

When the Idea of Home Was Key to American Identity

From log cabins to Gilded Age mansions, how you lived determined where you belonged.

by Richard White via What It Means to Be American on September 11, 2017

Yes, Gone With the Wind Is Another Neo-Confederate Monument

How the classic film helped promote a Reconstruction myth that was central to the maintenance of Jim Crow.

by Ed Kilgore via Intelligencer on August 30, 2017

Laundered Violence

Law and protest in Durham, North Carolina.

by Jedediah Britton-Purdy via n+1 on August 23, 2017

Lithograph of the Reconstruction-era Black Senators and Congressmen.

How About Erecting Monuments to the Heroes of Reconstruction?

Americans should build this pivotal post–Civil War era into the new politics of historical memory.

by Richard Valelly via The American Prospect on August 23, 2017

Growing Up in the Shadow of the Confederacy

Memorials to the Lost Cause have always meant something sinister for the descendants of enslaved people.

by Vann R. Newkirk II via The Atlantic on August 22, 2017

Man in foreground wearing neo-Nazi patch, man in background holding Confederate flag.

Worshiping the Confederacy is About White Supremacy — Even the Nazis Thought So

Confederate memory nurtured fascism.

by Nina Silber via Made By History on August 17, 2017

Racism, Medievalism, and the White Supremacists of Charlottesville

The weekend's demonstrators were the latest in a long line of American racists to ally themselves with an imagined Middle Ages.

by Josephine Livingstone via The New Republic on August 15, 2017

The Yakima Terror

Ninety years ago in Washington, a wave of anti-immigrant sentiment resulted in horror for Filipinos.

by Steve Ross via Slate on August 4, 2017

We Don’t Need a TV Show About the Confederacy Winning. In Many Ways, it Did.

HBO's “Confederate” assumes America is much further from its slaveholding past than it really is.

by Bree Newsome via Washington Post on August 2, 2017

Confederate Commander Col. Lawrence Allen and his wife.

The Massacre Men

The Confederacy often used brutal tactics against Union sympathizers, even in Southern towns.

by David Forbes via Scalawag on July 27, 2017

Trump Hasn’t Killed Comedy. He’s Killed Our Stupid Idea of Comedy.

You and I have grown up during a period in which comedy became strangely bound up with truth and virtue. Trump has cut the knot.

by Andrew Kahn via Slate on July 19, 2017

Policing the Community

Today, many politicians claim a community approach means soft on crime. Birmingham's Johnnie Johnson Jr. disagrees.

by Lanier Isom via The Bitter Southerner on July 18, 2017

The Devastation of Black Wall Street

Racial violence destroyed an affluent African-American community, seen as a threat to white-dominated American capitalism.

by Kimberly Fain via JSTOR Daily on July 5, 2017

History Writ Aright

What would it take for people "to know their history"? Pay attention to the silences.

by Brendan Wolfe via brendanwolfe.com on July 4, 2017

Man painting over a Robert E. Lee mural.

The Myth of the Kindly General Lee

The legend of the Confederate leader’s heroism and decency is based in the fiction of a person who never existed.

by Adam Serwer via The Atlantic on June 4, 2017

A worker prepares to remove a statue of Jefferson Davis.

How Robert E. Lee Got Knocked Off His Pedestal

Before New Orleans Mayor Mitch Landrieu made his celebrated speech, a grassroots movement forced the city to take down its monuments to white supremacy.

by Michael "Quess" Moore, Brentin Mock via CityLab on May 29, 2017

Oscar Dunn And The New Orleans Monument That Never Happened

New Orleans at 300 returns with a story about a monument that was supposed to be erected in the late 1800s, but never happened.

by Laine Kaplan-Levenson via New Orleans Public Radio on May 25, 2017

A Dual Emancipation

How black freedom benefited poor whites.

by Keri Leigh Merritt via Black Perspectives on April 15, 2017

As God Is My Witness

A year-long series of photographs and stories that explain the struggle between the old South and the new.

by Johnathon Kelso via The Bitter Southerner on April 4, 2017

Self-Righteous Devils: What Ozark Vigilantes of the 1880s Reveal About Modern America

The story of the Bald Knobbers is a terrifying parable about what happens when government fails and violence reigns.

by Lisa Hix via Collectors Weekly on February 24, 2017

When to Rename a Building, and Why: Yale Adopts a New Approach

Yale adopts a new approach to deciding whether Calhoun College and other university properties need new names.

by Rebecca Onion via Slate on December 2, 2016

A still from a film western depicting a fictionalized version of volunteers at the Alamo.

What a 1950s Texas Textbook Can Teach Us About Today's Textbook Fight

Texas education officials have preliminarily voted to reject a Mexican-American history textbook that scholars have said was riddled with inaccuracies.

by Nathan Bernier via KUT 90.5 on November 16, 2016

The Racist History of Portland, the Whitest City in America

It’s known as a modern-day hub of progressivism, but its past is one of exclusion.

by Alana Semuels via The Atlantic on July 22, 2016

What Do You Do After Surviving Your Own Lynching?

On August 7, 1930, three black teenagers were lynched in Marion, Indiana. James Cameron was one of them.

by Syreeta McFadden via BuzzFeed News on June 23, 2016

Carving of Confederate generals on Stone Mountain.

On Stone Mountain

White supremacy and the birth of the modern Democratic Party.

by Christopher F. Petrella via Boston Review on March 24, 2016

Calvin Coolidge, Grace Coolidge, and Senator Charles Curtis.

Donald Trump and the Return of the 1920s

We are again caught between nationalists longing for an imagined past, and activists invoking ideals the nation has not attained.

by Richard Yeselson via The Atlantic on December 30, 2015

A New History of Prohibition

How the ban on booze gave rise to prejudiced policing, the penal system, and the modern American right wing.

by Lisa McGirr, Rebecca Onion via Slate on December 11, 2015

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