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Hooded Klansmen featured in UVA's 1922 yearbook.

UVA and the History of Race: When the KKK flourished in Charlottesville

Charlottesville and the UVA were enthusiastic participants in the national resurgence of public and celebratory white supremacy.

by Ashley Schmidt, Kirt von Daacke via UVA Today on September 25, 2019

Protester at an "America First" rally.

The Great-Granddaddy of White Nationalism

Thomas Dixon’s racist discourse lurks in American politics and society even today.

by Diane Roberts via Southern Cultures on September 18, 2019

A Lynch Mob of One

The assault rifle has enabled racists to act alone.

by Ibram X. Kendi via The Atlantic on August 8, 2019

Neo-Nazis hold flags during a National Socialist Movement rally at Greenville Street Park in Newnan, Georgia, on April 21, 2018.

On the Rise of “White Power”

The author of a book on paramilitary white supremacy discusses the methods and ethics of researching racial violence.

by Kathleen Belew, Monica Muñoz Martinez via Public Books on April 19, 2019

A Very Great Change

The 1868 presidential election through the eyes of a Southern white woman.

by Stephanie McCurry via Lapham’s Quarterly on April 16, 2019

The Ominous History Surrounding President Trump’s Fourth of July Rally

White nationalists have long used the holiday to advance their dreams of a white country.

by Christopher F. Petrella via Made By History on February 28, 2019

The Experience That Taught Me Blackface and Klan Hoods Are Forms of Racial Terror

A childhood lesson in the backseat of a 1973 Mustang.

by Tanisha C. Ford via Tanisha C. Ford on February 6, 2019

Newspaper cartoon of Ku Klux Klan

The Deadliest Massacre in Reconstruction-Era Louisiana Happened 150 Years Ago

In September 1868, Southern white Democrats hunted down around 200 African-Americans in an effort to suppress voter turnout.

by Lorraine Boissoneault via Smithsonian on September 28, 2018

White Supremacy Has Always Been Mainstream

“Very fine people”—fathers and husbands, as well as mothers and daughters—have always been central to the work of white supremacy.

by Stephen Kantrowitz via Boston Review on July 23, 2018

Declaration of War

The violent rise of white supremacy after the Vietnam War.

by Patrick Blanchfield via The Nation on June 20, 2018

End of the American Dream? The Dark History of 'America First'

When he promised to put America first in his inaugural speech, Donald Trump drew on a slogan with a long and sinister history.

by Sarah Churchwell via The Guardian on April 21, 2018

Leander Woods’s gravestone in Nashville National Cemetery.

The Man Who Fought the Klan and Won

America loves a good scoundrel. We should remember this one.

by Betsy Phillips via Washington Post on February 8, 2018

How Do We Explain This National Tragedy? This Trump?

On 400 years of tribalism, genocide, expulsion, and imprisonment.

by T. J. Stiles via Literary Hub on January 31, 2018

When the South Was the Most Progressive Region in America

Elections in the late 1860s gave birth to real, if short-lived, interracial democracy—the likes of which America had never seen.

by Ethan J. Kytle, Blain Roberts via The Atlantic on January 17, 2018

A White Mother Went to Alabama to Fight for Civil Rights. The Klan Killed Her for It.

What motivated Viola Liuzzo to take up the cause of justice hundreds of miles from her home?

by Donna Britt via Washington Post on December 15, 2017

Louis Beam

Armed Resistance, Lone Wolves, and Media Messaging: Meet the Godfather of the ‘Alt-Right’

There would be no Richard Spencer without Louis Beam.

by Laura Smith via Timeline on November 6, 2017

Blaming 'Bad Dudes' Masks the Role of Women in the History of White Nationalism

Blaming “bad dudes”—ignores the role of women in the white nationalist movement.

by Arica L. Coleman via TIME on September 18, 2017

What Will Happen to Stone Mountain, America’s Largest Confederate Memorial?

The Georgia landmark is a testament to the enduring legacy of white supremacy

by Lorraine Boissoneault via Smithsonian on August 22, 2017

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.

When White Supremacists Strike, Police Don’t Always Strike Back

The long history of law enforcement's complicity in the affairs of right-wing insurgents.

by Dan Berger via Made By History on August 18, 2017

Regime Change in Charlottesville

If you understand why that Civil War statue really went up, the debate over removing it looks a lot different.

by Adam Goodheart via Politico Magazine on August 16, 2017

Trump Isn't the Apotheosis of Conservatism

Writers like Rick Perlstein miss the ways in which Trump’s rise is a story of discontinuity.

by David Frum via The Atlantic on April 15, 2017

A scene from Birth of a Nation.

Births of a Nation

Cedric Robinson has a great deal to teach us about Trumpism and the significance of resistance in determining the future.

by Robin D. G. Kelley via Boston Review on March 6, 2017

The Price of Union

The undefeatable South.

by Nicholas Lemann via The New Yorker on November 2, 2015

Political cartoon depicting children recoiling from Catholic bishops crawling onto the beach with their robes and hats making them look like crocodiles.

When America Hated Catholics

In the late 19th century, statesmen feared that Catholics were something less than civilized (and less than white).

by Joshua Zeitz via Politico Magazine on September 23, 2015

What This Cruel War Was Over

The meaning of the Confederate flag is best discerned in the words of those who bore it.

by Ta-Nehisi Coates via The Atlantic on June 22, 2015

Art of the Radio Free Dixie Banner

Radio Free Dixie: A Revolutionary Cultural Institution

Sixty-four years after Radio Free Dixie first aired, the show is still a shining example of a truly revolutionary cultural institution.

by John Morrison via Scalawag on August 5, 2025

Four young women, the daughters of Sidonia Kahn, in fancy dresses and hats.

Southern Jews Have Always Debated Zionism

Conflicts over Israel’s founding encompassed religion, race, and politics.

by Shari Rabin via Zócalo Public Square on August 4, 2025

A Farm Security Administration representative visits Seabrook Farms in New Jersey in May 1938.

Destiny of the Dispossessed Spinach Prince

John Seabrook’s history of Seabrook Farms, where many incarcerated Japanese Americans worked during WWII, is ultimately about fathers and sons.

by Nick Ripatrazone via The Bulwark on July 25, 2025

Billboards advertising the new Superman film in Times Square.

Superman Was Always a Social Justice Warrior

A closer look at the character’s history shows that the latest movie is true to his past.

by Ryan Biller via New Lines on July 25, 2025

Cover of "Sedition" featuring smoke engulfing the Capitol dome.

An Attempt to Defeat Constitutional Order

After the Civil War, conservatives used terrorism, cold-blooded murder, and economic coercion to fight the new state constitution in South Carolina.

by Marcus Alexander Gadson via HNN on May 13, 2025

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