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Soldiers in the 15th New York.

Lynching in America: Targeting Black Veterans

Black veterans were once targeted for racialized violence because of the equality with whites that their military service implied.
via Equal Justice Initiative on November 11, 2016
W.E.B. Du Bois.

Racial Violence in Black and White

From lynching photos to Black Lives Matter – what does it mean to look at images of African Americans being murdered?
by Benjamin Balthaser via Boston Review on July 13, 2016

America’s Lost History of Border Violence

Texas Rangers and vigilantes killed thousands of Mexican-Americans in a campaign of terror. Will Texas acknowledge the bloodshed?
by Rebecca Onion via Slate on May 5, 2016
Mississippi Klan members wearing hoods.

K Troop

The untold story of the eradication of the original Ku Klux Klan.
by Matthew Pearl via Slate on March 4, 2016

How the Klan Got Its Hood

Members of the Ku Klux Klan did not wear their distinctive white uniform until Hollywood—and a mail-order catalog—intervened.
by Alison Kinney via The New Republic on January 8, 2016

The Cause Was Never Lost

The Confederate flag remains the symbol of our unfinished reckoning with race and violence for good reason.
by Jason Morgan Ward via The American Historian on November 2, 2015

Bryan Stevenson on Charleston and Our Real Problem with Race

"I don't believe slavery ended in 1865, I believe it just evolved."
by Corey G. Johnson, Bryan Stevenson via The Marshall Project on June 24, 2015
Dr. Ossian Sweet
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Dr. Ossian Sweet's Black Life Mattered

It has been 90 years since Ossian Sweet tried to move into his new home; since police stood by and did nothing as a mob threw rocks.
by David F. Krugler, Victoria W. Wolcott, Heather Bourbeau, Leslie Brown, Anne Valk, James W. McElhaney, Lance Freeman via JSTOR Daily on June 17, 2015
Civil War reenactors.
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Telling the Untold Story 1

Why Marvin Greer spends his weekends playing the part of a slave at Civil War reenactments.
via BackStory on March 1, 2013
Lithograph of the 1871 massacre of Chinese workers in California.

How Los Angeles Covered Up the Massacre of 17 Chinese

The greatest unsolved murders in Los Angeles' history, bloodier than the Black Dahlia, more vicious than the hit on Bugsy Siegel, occurred on a night in 1871.
by John Johnson Jr. via LA Weekly on March 10, 2011
Black residents viewing the remains of their burned homes after rioting.

The Day Lincoln's Hometown Erupted In Racial Hate

A century ago, Springfield, Illinois, descended into a two-day spasm of racial violence and mayhem that still has the power to shock.
by Liane Hansen via NPR on August 10, 2008
Cover of "Making Whiteness," featuring a Black man in front of a billboard of larger-than-life white faces.
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Making Whiteness

How a historian's family history informed her professional quest to unpack the stories white Southerners told about themselves.
by In Black America via American Archive of Public Broadcasting on September 1, 1998
A man standing in the rubble that was his home before the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre. The front of the postcard contains a printed caption stating, "All That Was Left of His Home After the Tulsa Race Riot, 6-1-1921."

Tulsa, 1921

On the 100th anniversary of the riot in that city, we commemorate the report written for this magazine by a remarkable journalist.
by Walter Francis White, Russell Cobb via The Nation on June 15, 1921

The Politics of Humiliation

The liberal jeremiad warns that democracy is fragile, institutions must be defended, and that vigilance is the price of liberty.
by Richard A. Greenwald via The Baffler on November 14, 2025
Lincoln, Washington, and a snippet from a lyceum address.

The Lincoln Way

How he used America’s past to rescue its future.
by Jake Lundberg via The Atlantic on October 10, 2025
A man walks down the street dressed as Uncle Sam and carries a large baby Donald Trump doll.

Cracked, Costly Fantasies

The legacy of right-wing ideologies in California.
by Dan O’Sullivan via Los Angeles Review of Books on June 28, 2025
US National Guard troops block off Beale Street as Civil Rights marchers wearing placards reading, "I AM A MAN"

The Classical Liberal Foundation of Civil Rights

The progress we have seen toward civil rights for all Americans is inseparable from the history of classical liberalism.
by David Lewis Schaefer via Law & Liberty on June 24, 2025
Color lithograph advertisement showing the interior of a Pullman dining-car, with the Pullman factory out the window, 1894.
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Walking the Race Line on the Train Line

Investigators never reached a conclusion about the death of Pullman porter J. H. Wilkins, but his killing revealed much about the dangers of his profession.
by Matthew Wills, Rosemary Pearce via JSTOR Daily on June 21, 2025
Protestors hold anti-communist picket signs outside of a theatre

The Grim Timeliness of “Noir and the Blacklist”

A new Criterion series of McCarthy-era noir films is a timely collection for an era of rising government repression.
by Eileen Jones via Jacobin on May 4, 2025
Still frames from the film Sinners spliced with photos depicting a whites-only sign and a group of African American families

The Jim Crow Economy Is the True Horror in 'Sinners'

The film illustrates the near-impossibility of upward mobility during the segregation era.
by Adam Serwer via The Atlantic on May 2, 2025
Henry Fonda in The Best Man (1984).

President of the Nameless: Alexander Horwath on Henry Fonda for President

A documentary dissects Henry Fonda's character and his role in American cinema.
by A. S. Hamrah, Alexander Horwath via Screen Slate on April 7, 2025
“Jeffries Knock-Out,” photograph of the Jack Johnson vs. Jim Jeffries during the World Heavyweight Championship of 1910..

Jack London, Jack Johnson, and the Fight of the Century

In the 1910 World Heavyweight Championship, London cheered on Jim Jeffries as he faced off with Jack Johnson, the first Black heavyweight champion.
by Andrew Rihn via The Public Domain Review on March 26, 2025
William Jennings Bryan, the lead prosecutor in the Scopes trial, delivering his opening remarks, Dayton, Tennessee, July 1925

Evolution in the Dock

How the Scopes trial informs today's culture wars.
by Adam Hochschild via New York Review of Books on December 26, 2024
Protesters storming the U.S. Capitol on January 6, 2021.

What’s the Difference Between a Rampaging Mob and a Righteous Protest?

From the French Revolution to January 6th, crowds have been heroized and vilified. Now they’re a field of study.
by Adam Gopnik via The New Yorker on November 18, 2024
Campaign poster for Tom Watson

The Original Angry Populist

They say there’s never been a man like Donald Trump in American politics. But there was—and we should learn from him. Look back to early-20th-century Georgia.
by Zachary D. Carter via Slate on October 16, 2024
White men strapping a Black man into an electric chair.
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Matters of Life and Death

Systemic racism and capital punishment have long been intertwined in Virginia, the South, and the nation.
by Janis Parker on July 10, 2024
W.E.B. Du Bois

When Did Black Voters Shift to Democrats? Earlier Than You Might Think

A look at how and why African Americans first started to abandon the GOP for the Democratic Party.
by Blake Wilson via Retropolis on June 30, 2024
State troopers and deputies stand at the entrance to a University of Alabama building in Tuscaloosa on the day in 1963 that George Wallace, Governor of Alabama, said he would defy a Federal order making it mandatory to admit two African American students.
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We Must Remember Tuscaloosa's 'Bloody Tuesday'

Black citizens fought for justice and were met with violence. They persevered.
by John M. Giggie via Made By History on June 7, 2024
The 19-year-old Indian elephant, Fritz-Frederic, favorite of the children of Paris, was put to death after he had gone mad for several days, c. 1910.
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Elephant Executions

At the height of circus animal acts in the late nineteenth century, animals who killed their captors might be publicly executed for their “crimes.”
by Amy Louise Wood, Livia Gershon via JSTOR Daily on May 7, 2024
A historical marker outside Fendall Hall, a plantation.

Historical Markers Are Everywhere In America. Some Get History Wrong.

The nation's historical markers delight, distort and, sometimes, just get the story wrong.
by Laura Sullivan, Nick McMillan via NPR on April 21, 2024
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