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Signs on the campus of New College of Florida in Sarasota last month.

Florida is Trying to Roll Back a Century of Gains for Academic Freedom

The state wants to severely limit what professors can say in the classroom.

by Glenn C. Altschuler, David Wippman via Made By History on February 6, 2023

The August 19, 1864 document recording Jacob Hoeflick’s release on bail twice

Uncovering Extrajudicial Black Resistance in Richmond's Civil War Court Records

Historians must read every imperfect archive with a particular perspicacity, to uncover the histories so many archives were meant to suppress or erase.

by Lois Leveen via Muster on February 1, 2023

Harold "Red" Grange, one of the biggest stars of the early NFL.

NFL Television Broadcasting and the Federal Courts

The NFL's control over entertainment.

by Jake Kobrick via Federal Judicial Center on January 24, 2023

Empty classroom.

The Neoliberal Superego of Education Policy

Institutional reform is no match for pervasive structural inequality.

by Christopher Newfield via Boston Review on January 18, 2023

Margaret Sanger in 1928.

The Anti-Abortion Movement and the Ghost of Margaret Sanger

Religious conservatives see “anti-eugenic” laws as the most promising path to establish a federal ban on abortion.

by Melinda Cooper via Dissent on January 17, 2023

President Truman in the Oval Office after presenting three Korean War veterans with the Medal of Honor.

When History Becomes Precedent in the OLC

Official decisions about military intervention and executive power are often based on outdated historical interpretations.

by Mary L. Dudziak via Balkinization on January 16, 2023

Protesters outside the Supreme Court on December 5, when oral arguments were heard in 303 Creative LLC v. Eleni.

The New Faith-Based Discrimination

A sharp uptick in challenges to U.S. antidiscrimination laws threatens decades of progress in extending civil rights to all.

by Louise Melling via Boston Review on December 14, 2022

Black and white scale of justice.

The Blindness of ‘Color-Blindness’

When the Supreme Court heard oral arguments on the future of affirmative action, I knew I had to be there.

by Drew Gilpin Faust via The Atlantic on December 2, 2022

Photograph of Pauli Murray mural.

How Pauli Murray Masterminded Brown v. Board

Without Murray’s intense commitment to the freedom struggle, the more famous civil rights leaders would not have had the successes they did.

by Tejai Beulah Howard via Black Perspectives on October 13, 2022

illustration of a hand with a shredded ballot

John Roberts’s Long Game

Is this the end of the Voting Rights Act?

by Linda Greenhouse via The Atlantic on September 20, 2022

Abortion opponents hold signs reading "I Vote Pro-life First" outside Supreme Court

Abortion and Partisan Entrenchment

The modern Republican Party has tied itself to Roe v. Wade. With the Supreme Court's decision in Dobbs, the party is vulnerable to new issues.

by Jack Balkin via Social Science Research Network on September 14, 2022

4 photo collage illustrating the partnership between the White League and the Ku Klux Klan in engaging in vigilante terrorism and racial violence

Colfax, Cruikshank, and the Latter-Day War on Reconstruction

Unearthing the deep roots of racialized voter suppression—and explaining how they shape ballot access today.

by David Daley via The Forum on August 3, 2022

Image of a cross combined with a scale to symbolize the connection of religion and justice in today's America.

The Supreme Court Has Ushered In a New Era of Religion at School

For two centuries, America had kept questions of church and state at bay. The country is not ready for the ones to come.

by Adam Laats via The Atlantic on July 15, 2022

A demonstrator outside the Supreme Court as the court rules in the Dobbs v. Women’s Health Organization abortion case on June 24, 2022.

Overturning Roe Could Threaten Rights Conservatives Hold Dear

Parental rights stem from the same liberty that the Supreme Court just began rolling back.

by Julia Bowes via Made By History on June 24, 2022

Photo of Hispanic students reciting the Pledge of Allegiance

First Roe, Then Plyler? The GOP’s 40-Year Fight to Keep Undocumented Kids Out of Public School

“The schoolhouse door cannot be closed to one of modern society’s most marginalized, most vilified groups.”

by Isabela Dias via Mother Jones on June 15, 2022

Photo collage in green and pink patterns, with a photo of Barbara Ann Richards in the center.

In the 1940s, a Trans Pioneer Fought California for Legal Recognition. This Is How She Won.

Barbara Ann Richards designed—and then demanded—the life she deserved.

by Michael Waters via Slate on March 20, 2022

Best History Writing of 2021

Bunk's American History Top 40.

by Tony Field on January 26, 2022

Bureaucracy Under Fire: How the Supreme Court Has Jeopardized the OSHA Vaccine Mandate

Corporate deregulation has long curtailed OSHA’s power to safeguard workers.

by Alexander Ian Parry via Made By History on January 7, 2022

A Black man sits at his dining room looking through property records

Racial Covenants, a Relic of the Past, Are Still on the Books Across the Country

Racial covenants made it illegal for Black people to live in white neighborhoods. Now they're illegal, but you may still have one on your home's deed.

by Natalie Y. Moore via NPR on November 17, 2021

Illustration of two women.

Why Norma McCorvey Switched Sides

The perils of turning the plaintiff in Roe v. Wade into a political symbol.

by Marin Cogan via The New Republic on October 11, 2021

Picture of the field at the Cyclone's Stadium in Coney Island, New York.

How Government Devastated Minor League Baseball

And why stopping the subsidies can help bring it back.

by Matt Welch via Reason on October 10, 2021

The Electoral Commission of 1877 holding a secret session by candle-light.

The Electoral Count Act Is Broken. Fixing It Requires Knowing How It Became Law.

Trump tried to exploit flaws that were embedded in the law from the start.

by Rachel Shelden, Erik B. Alexander via Made By History on October 8, 2021

Isaac Woodard, an African American army veteran, with his mother after being blinded by a South Carolina police chief in 1946.

After Victory in World War II, Black Veterans Continued the Fight for Freedom at Home

These men, who had sacrificed so much for the country, faced racist attacks in 1946 as they laid the groundwork for the civil rights movement to come.

by Bryan Greene via Smithsonian on August 30, 2021

Students with masks walking in a school hallway.

Schools Enforce Dress Codes All the Time. So Why Not Masks?

Dress codes are about social control, not student wellbeing.

by Einav Rabinovitch-Fox via Made By History on August 30, 2021

U.S. Supreme Court justices.

A Major Supreme Court First Amendment Decision Could be at Risk

Without New York Times vs. Sullivan, freedom of speech and the press could be drastically truncated.

by Samantha Barbas via Made By History on July 13, 2021

The Hawaii Supreme Court

The Surprising Honolulu Origins of the National Fight Over Same-Sex Marriage

A local gay rights activist launched a publicity stunt that became so much more. Congress couldn’t help but notice.

by Sasha Issenberg via Politico Magazine on May 31, 2021

The Amistad slave ship

Birthright Citizenship, Slave Trade Legislation, and the Origins of Federal Immigration Regulation

Opponents of birthright citizenship say there weren't any “illegal aliens” when the 14th Amendment was drafted. They're wrong.

by Gabriel Chin, Paul Finkelman via UC Davis Law Review on April 9, 2021

Protesters marching with a sign in support of the Twenty-sixth Amendment

Americans Can Vote at 18 Because of Congressional Action 50 Years Ago

A brief history of the Twenty-sixth Amendment.

by Jennifer Frost via HNN on March 21, 2021

Photo of former African American woman, Bernette Johnson, wearing judicial robes

The Dissenter

The rise of the first Black woman on the Louisiana Supreme Court was characterized by one battle after another with the Deep South’s white power structure.

by Elon Green via The Appeal on March 2, 2021

Wallpaper printed in support of the Constitutional Union Party’s presidential candidate, John Bell, in 1860.

A Constitution of Freedom

During the 1860 presidential election, political parties dueled over the intent of the framers.

by James Oakes via Lapham’s Quarterly on January 20, 2021

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