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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.
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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.
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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
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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

Contraband Flesh

A reflection on Zora Neale Hurston’s newly-published book, "Barracoon."
by Autumn Womack via The Paris Review on May 7, 2018
Inside the National Memorial for Peace and Justice, in Montgomery, AL.

The Pain We Still Need to Feel

The new lynching memorial confronts the racial terrorism that corrupted America—and still does.
by Jamelle Bouie via Slate on May 1, 2018

Haunted by History

War, famine and persecution inflict profound changes on bodies and brains. Could these changes persist over generations?
by Pam Weintraub via Aeon on April 18, 2018

Sam Harris, Charles Murray, and the Allure of Race Science

This is not "forbidden knowledge." It is America’s most ancient justification for bigotry and racial inequality.
by Ezra Klein via Vox on March 27, 2018

Pushing the Dual Emancipation Thesis Beyond its Troublesome Origins

"Masterless Men" shows how poor whites benefited from slavery's end, but does not diminish the experiences of the enslaved.
by Adrienne Petty via Black Perspectives on March 8, 2018

In the Shadows of Slavery’s Capitalism

"Masterless Men" shows how the antebellum political economy made poor southern whites into a volatile, and potentially disruptive, class.
by Calvin Schermerhorn via Black Perspectives on March 5, 2018

Why White Southern Conservatives Need to Defend Confederate Monuments

Confederate monuments were essential pieces of white supremacist propaganda.
by William Sturkey via Black Perspectives on March 3, 2018
Still from Black Panther film.

'Black Panther' and the Invention of 'Africa'

The film's hero and antagonist represent dueling responses to five centuries of African exploitation at the hands of the West.
by Jelani Cobb via The New Yorker on February 18, 2018
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