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The Last Words of Robert F. Kennedy

Until his last breath, RFK insisted that Americans confront their country’s shortcomings—and live up to its potential.
by Conor Friedersdorf via The Atlantic on June 5, 2018
Pat Buchanan surrounded by balloons at a campaign rally.

Revisiting a Transformational Speech: The Culture War Scorecard

Social conservatives won some and lost some since Pat laid down the marker.
by Michael Barone via The American Conservative on May 30, 2018
James Baldwin.

The Forgotten Baldwin

Baldwin demands that the Atlanta child murders be more than a mere media spectacle or crime story, and that black lives matter.
by Joseph Vogel via Boston Review on May 14, 2018

Hyman Minsky’s Views on the “Welfare Mess”

The intellectual father of the job guarantee movement saw it as a replacement for the social safety net.
by Matt Bruenig via People's Policy Project on May 13, 2018
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Resurrection City, 2.0

A generation ago, historians dismissed the Poor People’s Campaign of 1968. On the eve of a reboot, we can see it in a different light.
by Marisa Chappell on May 12, 2018

How the Log Cabin Became an American Symbol

We have the Swedes and William Henry Harrison to thank for the popularization of the log cabin.
by Andrew Belonsky via Mental Floss on April 19, 2018

Haunted by History

War, famine and persecution inflict profound changes on bodies and brains. Could these changes persist over generations?
by Pam Weintraub via Aeon on April 18, 2018

The Data Proves That School Segregation Is Getting Worse

This is ultimately a disagreement over how we talk about school segregation.
by Alvin Chang via Vox on March 5, 2018

Why White Southern Conservatives Need to Defend Confederate Monuments

Confederate monuments were essential pieces of white supremacist propaganda.
by William Sturkey via Black Perspectives on March 3, 2018

The Kerner Omission

How a landmark report on the 1960s race riots fell short on police reform.
by Nicole Lewis via The Marshall Project on March 1, 2018

When the Army Planned for a Fight in U.S. Cities

In 1968, a retired colonel warned that urban insurrections could produce “scenes of destruction approaching those of Stalingrad.”
by Conor Friedersdorf via The Atlantic on January 16, 2018

A Hillbilly Syllabus

“Some people call me Hillbilly, Some people call me Mountain Man; Well, you can call me Appalachia, ’Cause Appalachia is what I am.” —Del McCoury
by Eric Kerl via ChiTucky on December 10, 2017
Customers at an African American bank in Harlem.
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We Need More Government, Not Less, in The War on Poverty

The myth of the “dependent” poor.
by Mehrsa Baradaran via Made By History on December 8, 2017

The Kids Of Bowery's Hardcore 'Matinee,' Then And Now

Drew Carolan captured the mien of a subculture centered on midafternoon expressions of anger and community.
by Drew Carolan via NPR on November 16, 2017

Annotating the First Page of the Navajo-English Dictionary

“It is one thing to play dress-up, to imitate pronunciations and understanding; it is another thing to think or dream or live in a language not your own.”
by Danielle Geller via The New Yorker on November 7, 2017

The Underclass Origins of the Little Black Dress

The upper classes once imposed the fashion staple on their servants—then they stole it back from them.
by Shelley Puhak via The Atlantic on October 13, 2017
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Jane Addams’s Crusade Against Victorian “Dancing Girls”

Jane Addams, a leading Victorian-era reformer, believed dance halls were “one of the great pitfalls of the city.”
by Erin Blakemore via JSTOR Daily on October 11, 2017
Illustration of the harmful effects of alcohol on a Seneca village

America's First Addiction Epidemic

The alcohol epidemic devastated Native American communities, leading to crippling poverty, high mortality rates — and a successful sobriety movement.
by Christopher Finan via Longreads on August 29, 2017

Brian Tochterman on the 'Summer of Hell'

What E.B. White, Mickey Spillane, Death Wish, hip-hop, and the “Summer of Hell” have in common.
by Brian Tochterman, Sarah Cleary via UNC Press Blog on July 21, 2017
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How "This Land Is Your Land" Went From Protest Song to Singalong

Woody Guthrie’s “This Land Is Your Land” has lost a bit of its protest oomph—in part because of a decades-long denial of its later verses.
by Mark Allan Jackson, Erin Blakemore via JSTOR Daily on June 15, 2017

The Stranger Who Started an Epidemic

A huge expansion of the population of New Orleans created the perfect environment for the spread of yellow fever, and recent immigrants suffered most.
by Anna Faherty via Wellcome Collection on June 15, 2017
A painting of a "traditional" mid-20th century nuclear family.

All in the Family Debt

How neoliberals and conservatives came together to undo the welfare state.
by Melinda Cooper via Boston Review on May 31, 2017

Bryan Stevenson Explains How It Feels To Grow Up Black Amid Confederate Monuments

"I think we have to increase our shame — and I don't think shame is a bad thing."
by Ezra Klein, Bryan Stevenson via Vox on May 24, 2017

The Roots of Segregation

"The Color of Law" offers an indicting critique of the progressive agenda.
by Carl Paulus via The American Conservative on May 5, 2017
Guitar Shorty sitting on a bench outside of a house, and playing guitar while smoking a cigar.

Put on my Clothes and Look Like Somebody Else

The life of Guitar Shorty was a mixture of facts, lies and fantasy. He was a blues musician who lived far outside mainstream society.
by Sarah Bryan via Oxford American on April 17, 2017
Photo of three of the Cherry sisters: one playing a bass drum, standing between two in awkward dance poses.

The Shaming of the Cherry Sisters

How “Vaudeville’s worst act” fought for fame and respect on the stage.
by Jack El-Hai via Longreads on October 1, 2016
Policemen with nightsticks dragging Black man down the street.
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The Reason in the Riot

Senator Fred Harris describes his experience on the Kerner Commission, tasked with explaining the causes of urban riots in 1967.
via BackStory on August 18, 2016
A reporter interviewing another man near the wreckage from the Watts Rebellion.
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Did The 1965 Watts Riots Change Anything?

Sociological data from immediately after the riots in Watts, Los Angeles, in 1965 show major disparities in attitude by race.
by Livia Gershon, David O. Sears, T. M. Tomlinson via JSTOR Daily on July 13, 2016
Newly appointed Justice Sandra Day O’Connor stands in front of the Supreme Court on Sept. 25, 1981, in Washington.

Pro-Choice Advocates Fear That Roe v. Wade Could Be Lost. But It Already Happened.

How “undue burden”—a concept nurtured by anti-abortion groups and championed by the first woman on the Supreme Court—has eroded the right to choose.
by Meaghan Winter via Slate on March 28, 2016
Bill Clinton giving a speech.

How a Democrat Killed Welfare

Bill Clinton gutted welfare and criminalized the poor, all while funneling more money into the carceral state.
by Premilla Nadasen via Jacobin on February 9, 2016
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