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Photo of "Rebecca, Charley, and Rosa, slave children from New Orleans."
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What the Viral Media of the Civil War Era Can Teach Us About Prejudice

A recent photography exhibit at the Getty Center raises difficult questions about our capacity for empathy.
by Allison C. Meier on June 12, 2018

Black Athletes, Anthem Protests, and the Spectacle of Patriotism

The NFL's response to player protests reflects decades of League and U.S. attempts to portray false images of post-racial harmony.
by Amira Rose Davis via Black Perspectives on June 7, 2018
"Rosie the Riveter" poster, depicting white woman wearing red bandanna and blue shirt flexing arm and saying "We Can Do It!"

How One 'Rosie the Riveter' Poster Won Out Over all the Others

During the war, few Americans actually saw the 'Rosie the Riveter' poster that's become a cultural icon.
by Sarah Myers via The Conversation on May 25, 2018
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Iran, North Korea, Russia: How the Nuclear Threat Re-emerged

Countries are expanding their nuclear arsenals. So why is the public so complacent about the risk of nuclear catastrophe?
by Noah Madoff, Harvey Burrell via Retro Report on May 15, 2018

The Soviet Anthology of “Negro Poetry”

In the 1930s, Soviet leaders decided that black American authors could teach Russians “to write social poetry.”
by Jennifer Wilson via The Paris Review on May 15, 2018
Colin Powell holding a vial of anthrax.

How Torture-Produced Intelligence Deceived Us Into Iraq

A first-hand account of how intel gleaned from 'enhanced interrogation' was used to make the case for the 2003 invasion.
by Lawrence Wilkerson via The American Conservative on May 9, 2018
Blurry photo of shelves of food in a supermarket aisle.
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The Great American Supermarket Lie

Instead of highlighting the glories of capitalism, supermarkets expose the inequalities it creates.
by Shane Hamilton via Made By History on April 27, 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

Russians Were Once Banned From a Third of the U.S.

Soviet ban? What Soviet ban?
by Greg Miller via National Geographic on March 26, 2018
Protestors for ACT UP lying on the ground, holding hands, as police arrest them.
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The Russian ‘Fake News’ Campaign That Damaged the United States — in the 1980s

The 2016 election wasn't the first time that a disinformation campaign was used against America.
by Alexander Poster via Made By History on March 12, 2018
Mississippi Klan members wearing hoods.

The Media and the Ku Klux Klan: A Debate That Began in the 1920s

The author of "Ku Klux Kulture" breaks down the ‘mutually beneficial’ relationship between the Klan and the media.
by Felix Harcourt, Lois Beckett, Jesse Brenneman via The Guardian 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
Still from Black Panther film.

What Would W. E. B. Du Bois Make of 'Black Panther'?

Considering Du Bois' complex ideas on the role of black artists in the struggle against white supremacy.
by Clint Smith via The Paris Review on March 1, 2018
Guernica by Pablo Picasso

Pablo Picasso's Guernica and Modern War

A primary source set and teaching guide created by educators.
by Virginia B. Spivey via Digital Public Library of America on February 28, 2018

Washington Has Meddled in Elections Before

The hidden hypocrisy within American outrage over Russian election meddling.
by William M. LeoGrande via The Conversation on February 26, 2018

The 1952 Olympic Games, the US, and the USSR

The Olympics have long enabled global superpowers to enact their political and ideological conflicts in sport.
by Erin Redihan via Process: A Blog for American History on February 8, 2018

Everyday Soviet Nostalgia

Retracing the 1947 journey that John Steinbeck and Robert Capa took to introduce America to Soviet life.
by Laura Reston via The New Republic on January 2, 2018
Members of ARDE Frente Sur in 1987.

The Psyops Manual the CIA Gave to Nicaragua's Contras Is Totally Bonkers

To defeat the leftist Sandinistas, Washington provided aid to the Contras along with a crazy psychological warfare anticommunist manual.
by Jared Keller via Task & Purpose on December 19, 2017

Cold War Propaganda: The Truth Belonged to No One Country

During the Cold War, US propagandists worked to provide a counterweight to Communist media, but truth eluded them all.
by Melissa Feinberg via Aeon on December 11, 2017
Map showing the U.S. broken up into four countries, including an expansive Confederate States of America.

A Map of the Disunited States, "as Traitors and Tyrants Would Have It"

The U.S. divided into Pacific, Atlantic, Interior and Confederate States.
by Frank Jacobs via Big Think on October 30, 2017

The History of Russian Involvement in America's Race Wars

From propaganda posters to Facebook ads, 80-plus years of Russian meddling.
by Julia Ioffe via The Atlantic on October 21, 2017
Arthur Szyk painting of Hitler as the anti-Christ with skulls reflected in his eyes.

Jewish Heroes and Nazi Monsters

The many lives of ferocious cartoonist and illustrator Arthur Szyk at a jewel of a show at the New-York Historical Society.
by J. Hoberman via Tablet on October 16, 2017

What Facebook Did to American Democracy

And why it was so hard to see it coming.
by Alexis C. Madrigal via The Atlantic on October 12, 2017
Pat Tillman memorial with American flags.

The NFL, the Military, and the Hijacking of Pat Tillman’s Story

Pat Tillman’s life and death is an all-American story. It’s just not the kind that Donald Trump and his supporters want it to be.
by Ryan Devereaux via The Intercept on September 28, 2017

Who is the Enemy Here?

The Vietnam War pictures that moved them most.
by Alice Gabriner via TIME on September 15, 2017
Question in a quiz about nativist newspaper headlines.

Guess Whether These Headlines Came From Breitbart or 1920s KKK Newspapers

Today's headlines evoke the the racist and hate filled headlines of KKK publications.
by Andrew Kahn, Rebecca Onion, Peter A. Shulman via Slate on September 14, 2017

William Bradford Huie’s “The Klansman” @50

With Donald Trump bringing the Ku Klux Klan back into the spotlight, we must return to William Bradford Huie's 1967 novel.
by Riché Richardson via Public Books on September 12, 2017

The Fake-News Fallacy

Old fights about radio have lessons for new fights about the Internet.
by Adrian Chen via The New Yorker on September 4, 2017
Cover of pamphlet entitled "Defense is First at Firestone"

Patriotism and Production in World War II Corporate Publications

A Lippincott Library collection shows how, during World War II, companies highlighted their war contributions via annual reports.
by Rayna Andrews via Special Collections Cataloging at Penn on July 5, 2017
Lithograph of ladies' fashions from Godey's Lady's Book magazine.
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The Women’s Magazine That Tried to Stop the Civil War

Godey’s Lady’s Book, one of the most influential American publications of the nineteenth century, tried to halt the Civil War.
by Joseph Michael Sommers, Erin Blakemore via JSTOR Daily on June 11, 2017
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