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White Americans Fail to Address Their Family Histories

There is a conversation about race that white families are just not having. This is mine.

by William Horne via The Activist History Review on February 9, 2018

Boy walking across a dirt road in Biloxi.

How Poverty and Racism Persist in Mississippi

Author Jesmyn Ward on the racism “built into the bones” of the state where she grew up and is choosing to raise her children.

by Jesmyn Ward via The Atlantic on February 1, 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

Drawing of a black man holding a shovel (out of frame).

Arlington Is More Than a Cemetery

Arlington House’s transformations mirror our own.

by Jackie Roche via The Nib on January 22, 2018

Encountering the Plantation Myth Where You'd Least Expect It

Well off Savannah's tourist trail, there's a replica of an antebellum plantation home in the middle of a public housing project.

by Kevin M. Levin on January 19, 2018

How to Build a Segregated City

How can adjacent neighborhoods in the same city be so drastically unequal?

by Colette Shade via Splinter on January 19, 2018

The Music I Love Is a Racial Minefield

How I learned to fiddle my way through America's deeply troubling history.

by Michael Mechanic via Mother Jones on December 21, 2017

An Intimate History of America

A reminder of history's proximity is prompted by a visit to the National Museum of African American History and Culture.

by Clint Smith via The Paris Review on December 18, 2017

The US Medical System is Still Haunted by Slavery

Medicine’s dark history helps explain why black mothers are dying at alarming rates.

by Ranjani Chakraborty via Vox on December 7, 2017

A row of wood frame houses in an African American neighborhood of Birmingham, Alabama, in 1963. (Credit: Marion S. Trikosko, Library of Congress)

Discourse on Race and Inequality in the United States

We must understand America's history of inequality to confront the racial wealth gap.

by Kasturi DasGupta via Black Perspectives on November 30, 2017

The Massacre That Spelled the End of Unionized Farm Labor in the South for Decades

In 1887, African-American cane workers in Louisiana attempted to organize—and many paid with their lives.

by Calvin Schermerhorn via Smithsonian on November 21, 2017

'This Is Surreal': Descendants of Slaves and Slaveowners Meet On US Plantation

At Prospect Hill, people came from as far as Liberia for an unlikely gathering that led to a scene of visible emotion – with ‘a lot to talk about.'

by Alan Huffman via The Guardian on November 16, 2017

The Princeton & Slavery Project

A vast, interactive collection of resources related to Princeton's involvement with the institution of slavery.

via Princeton University on November 6, 2017

Introducing Reconstruction

The new Slate Academy finds the seeds of our present politics in the period after the Civil War.

by Jamelle Bouie, Rebecca Onion via Slate on October 27, 2017

A Sign On Scrubland Marks One of America's Largest Slave Uprisings

The Stono rebellion of 1739 was the biggest slave rebellion in Britain’s North American colonies, but it is barely commemorated.

by Adam Gabbatt via The Guardian on October 24, 2017

Children playing stick ball in the alley.

How the U.S. Government Locked Black Americans Out of Attaining the American Dream

The wealth gap between white Americans and black Americans is stark.

by Mehrsa Baradaran, Emma Roller via Splinter on October 11, 2017

Roy Moore with a cowboy hat, gun, and microphone, in front of an American flag.

The Reason Roy Moore Won in Alabama That No One is Talking About

Centuries of economic inequality have left Southern politics ripe for insurgent outsiders.

by Keri Leigh Merritt via Made By History on October 5, 2017

Cover of sheet music for Miss Brown's Cake Walk, featuring a drawing of minstrel dancers in fancy attire.

Blackface Minstrelsy in Modern America

A primary source set and teaching guide created by educators.

by Lakisha Odlum via Digital Public Library of America on September 18, 2017

History is Not There to be Liked: On Historical Memory, Real and Fake

Historians have the uncomfortable role of shattering people’s memories.

by Jason Steinhauer via Foreign Policy Research Institute on September 15, 2017

American Sphinx

Civil War monuments erased an emancipated Black population, but the Sphinx looked to an integrated Africa and America.

by Colin Dickey via Longreads on August 31, 2017

(Still) Worrying About the Civil War

Why I decided to devote my professional life to something I wasn't very interested in.

by Ed Ayers on August 25, 2017

The South's Penchant for Confederate Street Names, Mapped

A new project tallies the streets named after Confederate leaders alongside those named after civil rights personalities.

by Tanvi Misra via CityLab on August 25, 2017

Tear Down the Confederates’ Symbols

The battle against the remnants of Confederate sentiment is a battle against both white supremacy and class rule.

by Tyler Zimmer via Jacobin on August 16, 2017

The Lost Cause Rides Again

The prospective series takes as its premise an ugly truth that black Americans are forced to live every day: What if the Confederacy wasn’t wholly defeated?

by Ta-Nehisi Coates via The Atlantic on August 4, 2017

'The Fatal Deadfall of Abolition'

Threatening the newly-freed Southern slaves.

by John F. Ptak via JF Ptak Science Books on July 31, 2017

Howard Coffin hosts President Calvin Coolidge on Sapelo Island, Georgia.

Black Gullah Culture Fascinated Americans Just As President Coolidge Visited

The culture on Sapelo Island, Georgia was unique.

by Melissa L. Cooper via Timeline on July 7, 2017

History Writ Aright

What would it take for people "to know their history"? Pay attention to the silences.

by Brendan Wolfe via brendanwolfe.com on July 4, 2017

American Slavery: Separating Fact From Myth

Before we can face slavery, learn about it and acknowledge its significance to American history, we must dispel the myths surrounding it.

by Henry Nash Smith via The Conversation on June 19, 2017

The Echoes of America's 'Faithful Slave' Trope in Lola's Story

How Alex Tizon’s essay echoes a trope with deep roots in American history

by Micki McElya via The Atlantic on May 31, 2017

Wealth, Slavery, and the History of American Taxation

The nation's first "colorblind" tax set the stage for over two centuries of systematic consolidation of white racial interests.

by Christopher F. Petrella via Black Perspectives on April 20, 2017

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