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Remembering Native American Lynching Victims

Research shows that many more Native Americans were lynched than previously believed.
by Cecily Hilleary via VOA on April 25, 2018

White Supremacy Is the Achilles Heel of American Democracy

Even in a high-tech era, fears about minority political agency are the most reliable way to destabilize the U.S. political system.
by Vann R. Newkirk II via The Atlantic on April 17, 2018

The Lynching of Robert Prager

The high-water mark of the anti-immigrant and anti-German hysteria that gripped the nation during World War I.
by Jeff Manuel via We're History on April 5, 2018
Young men in custody after the Zoot Suit Riots.
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The Dangerous Game Donald Trump Is Playing With MS-13

Exaggerating the danger of the group only creates new problems.
by Roberto José Andrade Franco via Made By History on March 7, 2018

The People's Grocery Lynching, Memphis, Tennessee

Thomas Moss’ lynching, like many others in the South, was a punishment for becoming an economic competitor to whites.
by Damon Mitchell via JSTOR Daily on January 24, 2018

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

When Dissent Became Treason

100 years ago, war proved to be a godsend for a president with no tolerance for opposition. We would be wise to heed the lesson.
by Adam Hochschild via New York Review of Books on September 28, 2017

Making Sense of the Violence in Charlottesville

Was the white-nationalist march better understood as a departure from America’s traditional values, or viewed in the context of its history?
by Elizabeth Klein, James Forman Jr. via The Atlantic on September 3, 2017

The Yakima Terror

Ninety years ago in Washington, a wave of anti-immigrant sentiment resulted in horror for Filipinos.
by Steve Ross via Slate on August 4, 2017

100 Years Ago African-Americans Marched Down Fifth Avenue to Declare That Black Lives Matter

Remembering the "Silent Protest Parade."
by Chad Williams via The Conversation on July 25, 2017

The Devastation of Black Wall Street

Racial violence destroyed an affluent African-American community, seen as a threat to white-dominated American capitalism.
by Kimberly Fain via JSTOR Daily on July 5, 2017
Demonstrators walk on a beach.

Remembering the Bloody 'Wade-In' That Opened Beaches to Black Americans

Activists are working to preserve the history of the “wade-ins” that opened the space to everyone.
by Linda Poon via CityLab on June 21, 2017

‘Hey Boy, You Want To Go See A Hangin’?’: A Lynching From A White Southerner’s View

You cannot have reconciliation without empathy. And you can’t have empathy unless people know the past pain that informs our present.
by Jonathan Capehart via Washington Post on June 9, 2017

Race and Labor in the 1863 New York City Draft Riots

What sparked one of the deadliest insurrections in American history?
by Shannon Luders-Manuel, Albon P Man Jr. via JSTOR Daily on May 4, 2017

Nativism, Violence, and the Origins of the Paranoid Style

How a lurid 19th-century memoir of sexual abuse produced one of the ugliest features of American politics.
by Mike Mariani via Slate on March 22, 2017

Ida B. Wells and the Economics of Racial Violence

In the late 19th century, Wells connected lynchings to the economic interests and status anxieties of white southerners.
by Megan Ming Francis via Items on January 24, 2017

Visualizing the Red Summer

A comprehensive digital archive, map, and timeline of riots and lynchings across the U.S. in 1919.
by Karen Sieber via Visualizing the Red Summer on October 16, 2016
The inmates during a negotiating session on September 10, 1971. An uprising born of panic and confusion triggered a cascade of paranoia that extended to the Nixon White House.

Learning from the Slaughter in Attica

What the 1971 uprising and massacre reveal about our prison system and the liberal democratic state.
by Adam Gopnik via The New Yorker on August 22, 2016

What Do You Do After Surviving Your Own Lynching?

On August 7, 1930, three black teenagers were lynched in Marion, Indiana. James Cameron was one of them.
by Syreeta McFadden via BuzzFeed News on June 23, 2016

Long-Lost Manuscript Has a Searing Eyewitness Account of Tulsa Race Massacre

A lawyer details the attack by hundreds of whites on the black neighborhood where hundreds died 95 years ago.
by Allison Keyes via Smithsonian on May 27, 2016
Photo of Jimmy Lee Jackson.

The Killing of Jimmie Lee Jackson

How a post-Civil War massacre impacted racial justice in America.
by Debo Adegbile via The Marshall Project on February 27, 2015
Illustration of grave robbing

Body Snatchers of Old New York

In the 1780s, medical schools used cadavers stolen from the cemeteries of slaves.
by Bess Lovejoy via Lapham’s Quarterly on October 13, 2013
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

The Colfax Riot

Stumbling on a forgotten Reconstruction tragedy, in a forgotten corner of Louisiana.
by Richard Rubin via The Atlantic on August 22, 2003
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
Collage of Chinese laborers.

When an American Town Massacred Its Chinese Immigrants

In 1885, white rioters murdered dozens of their Asian neighbors in Rock Springs, Wyoming. 140 years later, the story of the atrocity is still being unearthed.
by Michael Luo via The New Yorker on March 3, 2025

What Happens When You Try to Make History Vanish?

The White House’s decision to delete a DOJ database of Jan. 6 cases puts those who seek to preserve the historical record in direct opposition to their own government.
by Alec MacGillis via ProPublica on February 6, 2025
A painting of George Washington on horseback reviewing the Western Army at Fort Cumberland.
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Merry, Manly Militias

Levity and play — eerily combined with anxiety, terror, and deadly violence — shaped the identity and image of Early Republic militias.
by Eran A. Zelnik via HNN on January 28, 2025
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