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Customers at an African American bank in Harlem.

We Need More Government, Not Less, in The War on Poverty

The myth of the “dependent” poor.

by Mehrsa Baradaran via Made By History on December 8, 2017

The Supreme Court’s Quiet Assault on Civil Rights

The Supreme Court is quietly gutting one of the United States’ most important civil rights statutes.

by Lynn Adelman via Dissent on September 1, 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

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

Lincoln and Marx

The transatlantic convergence of two revolutionaries.

by Robin Blackburn via Jacobin on August 28, 2012

The Colfax Riot

Stumbling on a forgotten Reconstruction tragedy, in a forgotten corner of Louisiana.

by Richard Rubin via The Atlantic on August 22, 2003

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