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This Could Be the First Slavery Reparations Policy in America

Georgetown University students consider a fund to benefit descendants of 272 slaves sold by the school nearly two centuries ago.

by Jesús A. Rodríguez via Politico Magazine on April 9, 2019

White Southerners' Wealth After the Civil War

What Southern dynasties’ post-Civil War resurgence tells us about how wealth is really handed down.

by Andrew Van Dam via Washington Post on April 4, 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

Making Good on the Broken Promise of Reparations

Ignoring the moral imperative of repairing slavery's wounds because it might be “divisive” reinforces a myth of white innocence.

by Katherine Franke via New York Review of Books on March 18, 2019

Let’s Recognize the African-American Prisoners Who Helped Build America

Without them, the economy of the American South would never would have recovered after the Civil War.

by Talitha L. LeFlouria via The Root on February 26, 2019

In Search of George Washington Carver’s True Legacy

The famed agriculturalist deserves to be known for much more than peanuts.

by Rachel Kaufman via Smithsonian on February 21, 2019

America’s Original Sin

Slavery and the legacy of white supremacy.

by Annette Gordon-Reed via Foreign Affairs on December 20, 2018

Frederick Douglass.

Frederick Douglass, Abolition, and Memory

On Douglass’s monumental life, the voice of the biographer, memory and tragedy, and why history matters right now.

by David W. Blight, Martha Hodes via Public Books on November 26, 2018

Freed slaves Wilson, Charley, Rebecca, and Rosa, New Orleans, 1864.

The Origins of Birthright Citizenship

The Fourteenth Amendment captures the idea that no people born in the United States should be forced to live in the shadows.

by Robert L. Tsai via Boston Review on November 9, 2018

Voters casting ballots in 2008.

The United States Isn’t a Democracy — And Was Never Intended to Be

Voting has always been restricted to empower a minority.

by Michael Todd Landis via Made By History on November 6, 2018

Lithograph of a white man beating an enslaved man.

How Slavery Made the Modern Scotland

A new documentary lays bare just how central a role Scotland played in the slave trade.

via The Herald on November 4, 2018

The Myth of a Southern Democracy

Voter suppression tactics have roots in Southern history dating to the Antebellum era.

by Keri Leigh Merritt via The Bitter Southerner on November 1, 2018

Fried Chicken Is Common Ground

If you like hot chicken, perhaps you’d be interested in knowing where it comes from.

by Osayi Endolyn via Eater on October 3, 2018

The Origins of Prison Slavery

How Southern whites found replacements for their emancipated slaves in the prison system.

by Shane Bauer via Slate on October 2, 2018

Slave and Free Black Marriage in the Nineteenth Century

During and after slavery, some whites considered legal marriage too sacred an institution to be offered to black Americans.

by Vanessa M. Holden via Black Perspectives on September 19, 2018

The Environmental Roots of Jim Crow in Coastal South Carolina

On the origins of the Lost Cause of the Lowcountry.

by Caroline Grego via Environmental History Now on September 13, 2018

A House Still Divided

In 1858, Lincoln warned that America could not remain “half slave and half free.” The threat today is as existential as it was before the Civil War.

by Ibram X. Kendi via The Atlantic on September 13, 2018

Robert E. Lee surrendering to Ulysses Grant.

Why Some White Americans see Racial Equality as Oppression

White victimhood's roots in the Civil War.

by Martha Hodes via Made By History on August 27, 2018

The View from Cottage Hill

History bleeds in Montgomery, Alabama.

by Siddhartha Mitter via Popula on August 23, 2018

The Legendary Language of the Appalachian "Holler"

Is the unique dialect a vestige of Elizabethan England? Left over from Scots-Irish immigrants? Or something else altogether?

by Chi Luu via JSTOR Daily on August 8, 2018

One Man's Quest to Uncover the True Costs of Jim Crow

"It’s going to change how we think about Texas history and how we think about ourselves and how we built this state."

by Megan Flynn via Washington Post on July 18, 2018

As Goes the South, So Goes the Nation

History haunts, but Alabama changes.

by Imani Perry via Harper’s on July 15, 2018

My Great-Grandfather, the Nigerian Slave-Trader

White traders couldn’t have loaded their ships without help from Africans like my great-grandfather.

by Adaobi Tricia Nwaubani via The New Yorker on July 15, 2018

Citizens: 150 Years of the 14th Amendment

In 1868, black activists had already been promoting birthright as the basis of their national belonging for nearly half a century.

by Martha S. Jones via Public Books on July 9, 2018

The Urgency of a Third Reconstruction

The ratification of the Fourteenth Amendment marked a turning point in U.S. history. Yet 150 years later, its promises remain unfulfilled.

by Robert Greene II via Dissent on July 9, 2018

Charleston, Key Port For Slaves In America, Apologizes And Meditates On Racism Today

The apology was a long time coming.

by Bill Chappell via NPR on June 20, 2018

Pen Park

The Train at Wood's Crossing

Piecing together the story of an 1898 lynching in a community that chose to forget most of the details.

by Brendan Wolfe via brendanwolfe.com on June 17, 2018

How Our Grandmothers Disappeared Into History

A historian turned novelist ponders the absence of women from America's historical archives.

by Katy Simpson Smith via Zócalo Public Square on June 8, 2018

A Reparations Map for Farmers of Color May Help Right Historical Wrongs

In an effort to address centuries of systemic racism, a new online tool seeks to connect Black, brown, and Indigenous farmers with land and resources.

by Andrea King Collier via Civil Eats on June 4, 2018

Lonesome for Our Home

Zora Neale Hurston’s long-lost oral history with one of the last survivors of the Atlantic slave trade.

by Elias Rodriques via The Nation on May 23, 2018

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