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Prisoners hoeing a field at Cummins Prison Farm in Arkansas, 1972.

Prison Plantations

One man’s archive of a vanished culture.
by Maurice Chammah via The Marshall Project on May 1, 2015

What Did the Three-Fifths Compromise Actually Do?

It was motivated in part by white Southerners' concerns about taxes, but ended up being all about maintaining their political power.
by Alex Sayf Cummings via Tropics of Meta on April 17, 2015

How Watermelons Became a Racist Trope

Before its subversion in the Jim Crow era, the fruit symbolized black self-sufficiency.
by Bill Black via The Atlantic on December 8, 2014

The Case for Reparations

Until we reckon with our compounding moral debts, America will never be whole.
by Ta-Nehisi Coates via The Atlantic on June 23, 2014
Voters at the voting booths in 1945.

Felon Disfranchisement Preserves Slavery's Legacy

Nearly six million Americans are prohibited from voting in the United States today due to felony convictions.
by Pippa Holloway via OUPblog on April 28, 2014
Painting representing the Great Migration: African Americans going through gates to Chicago, New York, and St. Louis.

The Changing Definition of African-American

How the great influx of people from Africa and the Caribbean since 1965 is challenging what it means to be African-American.
by Ira Berlin via Smithsonian Magazine on February 1, 2010
A cream colored map depicting the Middle Passage and trade routes between North America, South America, Africa, and Europe.

What Was Africa to Them?

How historians have understood Africa and the Black diaspora in global conversations about race and identity.
by Kwame Anthony Appiah via New York Review of Books on September 27, 2007

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
Sign reading "take it down" in front of Confederate flag

Rebel Yell

The recent march in South Carolina, demanding removal of the Confederate flag from the state Capitol is the latest episode in a long-running debate over slavery's legacy.
by Eric Foner via The Nation on January 27, 2000
James Baldwin

‘I Can’t Accept Western Values Because They Don’t Accept Me’

Revolution, the civil rights movement, and African-American identity.
by James Baldwin, Robert Penn Warren via Literary Hub on April 27, 1964
The date "1619" bolded against a gray background.

Engaging The 1619 Project

A collection of resources challenging the notion that the U.S. was built on nothing but injustice and subjugation.
via RealClearPublicAffairs
A protestor climbs the flagpole to remove the American flag during an Anti-Vietnam War rally in 1971.

Another Country: Visions of America

The rise of a violent authoritarian state under Trump unveils a deep uncertainty over what America is.
by Adam Shatz via London Review of Books on January 26, 2026
Slavery exhibit outside Independence National Historical Park in Philadelphia, later removed by the National Park Service.

We’ve Never Agreed About George Washington and Slavery

America continues to grapple with the legacy of one of its favorite Founders.
by John Garrison Marks via TIME on January 23, 2026
Drawing of Yale University, from likely the 17th century.

Reckoning With Yale’s Ties to Slavery

An institutional history of the “peculiar institution.”
by James Steichen via The Chronicle of Higher Education on November 14, 2025
Enslaved people working on a coffee farm in Brazil.

Way Down South: Slavery Far Beyond the United States

Slavery in Latin America, on a huge scale, was different from that in the United States. Why don’t we know this history?
by Ana Lucia Araujo via Aeon on November 13, 2025
Four men model two-button suits of 1963 Paris.

The Economic, Political, and Cultural History of Menswear

Where Western men’s clothing traditions came from, how they have evolved, and how they're being continually reinterpreted.
by Derek Guy, Dennis M. Hogan via Jacobin on September 18, 2025
James M. Hinds portraits shown blurry as if ink colors were misaligned during printing.

The Eloquent Vindicator in the Electric Room

No one remembers the assassination of Congressman James M. Hinds. What do we risk by making it just another part of American history?
by Drew Johnson via Longreads on September 9, 2025
Lee Barracks at the United States Military Academy.

West Point Restores Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee's Portrait

A painting of Gen. Robert E. Lee in his Confederate uniform is back on display at West Point's library.
by Michael Hill via AP News on September 2, 2025
Document about enslaved baby born to Priscilla.

Active Silence, Archival Presence, and An Enslaved Mother's Legal Knowledge

An enslaved woman’s refusal to name her child challenged Pennsylvania’s gradual abolition laws and left behind a rare archival trace of resistance.
by Cory James Young via The Panorama on June 30, 2025
Soldiers listen as President Donald Trump speaks at Fort Bragg on June 10, 2025, in North Carolina. | Alex Brandon/AP

Trump Reverses Army Base Names in Latest DEI Purge

The announcement comes just four days before the Army’s multimillion dollar parade in Washington.
by Jack Detsch, Paul Mcleary via Politico on June 10, 2025
Tamara Lanier

Harvard Relinquishes Photographs of Enslaved People in Historic Settlement

Tamara Lanier, who sued the school over daguerreotypes of her enslaved ancestors held in its museum, called the outcome “a turning point in American history.”
by Valentina Di Liscia via Hyperallergic on May 28, 2025
Illustration of Haiti flag with silhouette of a person.

The Island Nation Whose History Reflects America’s

Rich Benjamin’s new book reveals a shared spirit between the world’s first Black republic and the United States.
by Danielle Amir Jackson via The Atlantic on February 27, 2025
A line of people swearing in as Ghanaian citizens.

The Land Disputes Facing African Americans in Ghana

Locals complain of losing out as wealthier ‘returnees’ from abroad secure prime real estate.
by Philip Teye Agbove via New Lines on February 27, 2025
David Levering Lewis and his book overlaid on a stained glass window.

No Nation Under Their Feet

A historian explores his own family's history to understand the African-American community’s internal pigmentocracy and the absurdity of racial binaries.
by David Levering Lewis, Steve Nathans-Kelly via Chicago Review of Books on February 14, 2025
A flag depicting a hand pulling back the American flag to reveal a Confederate flag.

Patriotic Education and the End of History

Or, a brief history of today's erasure of history.
by Jeff Sharlet via Scenes from a Slow Civil War on January 30, 2025
Colorful, brightly lit interior of Washington Cathedral.

Reclaiming Medievalism

Washington Cathedral’s break with Confederate memory.
by Richard Utz via Medievalists.net on January 14, 2025
A line of workmen drilling.

A Prison the Size of the State, A Police to Control the World

Two new books examine how colonial logic has long been embedded within US carceral systems.
by Marisol LeBrón via Public Books on December 17, 2024
Blair LM Kelley

Talking Black Joy and Black Freedom with Blair LM Kelley

“The world didn’t give It, but the world can’t take It away.”
by Regina Bradley, Blair LM Kelley via Public Books on December 16, 2024
Students at an Indian boarding school.

Acknowledgment as Denialism: The Myth of Reparations in the US

What is an apology from the President of the United States worth if reparations do not include cessation of settler colonial violence?
by Ja'loni Owens via Scalawag on December 11, 2024
A group of indigenous Pacific Islanders forced to work on a sugar plantation, with a white overseer in the background.

How ‘Blackbirders’ Forced Tens of Thousands of Pacific Islanders Into Slavery After the Civil War

The decline of Southern industries paved the way for plantations in Fiji and Australia, where victims of “blackbirding” endured horrific working conditions.
by Shoshi Parks via Smithsonian Magazine on December 5, 2024
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