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Sesationalized painting of Native Americans about to scalp a white woman. The Murder of Jane McCrae by John Vanderlyn, Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, Hartford, Connecticut

“White People,” Victimhood, and the Birth of the United States

White racial victimhood was a primary source of power for settlers who served as shock troops for the nation.

by Gregory Rodriguez via Contra Mundum on June 9, 2022

The Revolutionary Thoreau

Generations of readers have chosen to emphasize Thoreau's spiritual communion with Nature, but Walden begins with trenchant critique of “progress.”

by R. H. Lossin via New York Review of Books on September 4, 2020

A young Julian Bond talking with Bayard Rustin at the 1968 Democratic convention

Julian Bond’s Life in Protest and Politics

A new collection of essays demonstrates how the civil rights icon’s thinking evolved amid the upheavals of the 20th century.

by Robert Greene II via The Nation on August 10, 2020

The Great Debate: Martin Luther King, Jr. vs Robert F. Williams

In 1959 there was a public debate on violence vs nonviolence in the pages of The Liberator magazine between Martin Luther King, Jr. and Robert F. Williams.

by Ben Passmore via The Nib on February 10, 2020

When the World Tried to Outlaw War

What, if anything, can we learn from the 1928 Paris Peace Pact?

by Stephen Wertheim via The Nation on November 8, 2018

The Soldier Who Needed 'Nam

The story of one veteran who could never find peace—until he made Vietnam his home.

by Nissa Rhee via Narratively on January 7, 2014

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