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Vernadette Vicuña Gonzalez (left), "Empire's Mistress" book cover with image of Isabel Cooper (right)

The General, the Mistress, and the Love Stories That Blind Us

Vernadette Vicuña Gonzalez discusses her new book on Isabel Cooper, a Filipina American actress and Douglas MacArthur’s lover.
by Noah Flora, Vernadette Vicuña Gonzalez via The Nation on April 5, 2021
A diverse group of school children saluting the American flag in a classroom.

Why the Asian-American Story Is Missing From U.S. Classrooms

Educators say that anti-Asian racism is directly linked to how the AAPI community is often depicted in U.S. history lessons .
by Olivia B. Waxman via TIME on March 30, 2021
Cleo Davis and Kayin Talton Davis are artists and activists who have made it their mission to preserve and celebrate African American history in Portland. Here, their daughter, Ifetayo Davis, stands with her father and sisters outside their home.

Oregon Once Legally Banned Black People. Has the State Reconciled its Racist Past?

Oregon became ground zero of America’s racial reckoning protests last summer. But activists say it doesn’t know its own history.
by Nina Strochlic via Process: A Blog for American History on March 8, 2021
Illustration of James McCune Smith, the African Free School #2, and the University of Glasgow

America's First Black Physician Sought to Heal a Nation's Persistent Illness

An activist, writer, doctor and intellectual, James McCune Smith, born enslaved, directed his talents to the eradication of slavery.
by Bryan Greene via Smithsonian on February 26, 2021
black and white photos of children

The Magazine That Helped 1920s Kids Navigate Racism

Mainstream culture denied Black children their humanity—so W. E. B. Du Bois created The Brownies’ Book to assert it.
by Anna E. Holmes via The Atlantic on February 12, 2021
A row of black and white pencils.

Anna Deavere Smith on Forging Black Identity in 1968

In 1968, history found us at a small women’s college, forging our Black identity and empowering our defiance.
by Anna Deavere Smith via The Atlantic on February 9, 2021
Artistic collage of black leaders surrounded by images associated with prohibition.

The Forgotten History of Black Prohibitionism

We often think of the temperance movement as driven by white evangelicals set out to discipline Black Americans and immigrants. That history is wrong.
by Mark Lawrence Schrad via Politico Magazine on February 6, 2021
Marjorie Taylor Greene
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Marjorie Taylor Greene Is Just the Latest Radical White Woman Poisoning Politics

Such women have long pushed American politics to the right, and their ideas have become mainstream.
by Elizabeth Gillespie McRae via Made By History on February 6, 2021
Deputy sheriff at county fair in Gonzales, Texas.

New Sheriff in Town

Law enforcement and the urban-rural divide.
by Jonathon Booth via The Drift on February 3, 2021

The African-American Midwest

The Midwest's long history as an epicenter in the fight for racial justice is one of the nation's most amazing, important, yet overlooked stories.
via African American Midwest on January 29, 2021
Julian Bond

What Julian Bond Taught Me About Politics and Power

Lessons about organizing from the SNCC co-founder.
by Jeanne Theoharis via Black Perspectives on January 27, 2021
An illustration of Black men pulling a platform covered in trash and American symbols.

What Price Wholeness?

A new proposal for reparations for slavery raises three critical questions: How much does America owe? Where will the money come from? And who gets paid?
by Shennette Garrett-Scott via New York Review of Books on January 18, 2021
A composite photograph of South Carolina's majority-black legislature created and circulated by opponents of Reconstruction

The Austerity Politics of White Supremacy

Since the end of the Confederacy, the cult of the “taxpayer” has provided a socially acceptable veneer for racist attacks on democracy.
by Vanessa Williamson via Dissent on January 11, 2021
Person walking with Confederate flag inside of the U.S. Capitol

The Capitol Riot Reveals the Dangers From the Enemy Within

But the belief that America previously had a well-functioning democracy is an illusion.
by Eric Foner via The Nation on January 8, 2021
Ilustration of Indian American family with American symbols.

The Truth Behind Indian American Exceptionalism

Many of us are unaware of the special circumstances that eased our entry into American life—and of the bonds we share with other nonwhite groups.
by Arun Venugopal via The Atlantic on December 19, 2020
African American women with signs promoting voter registration, 1956

Things Ain’t Always Gone Be This Way

Honorée Fanonne Jeffers on how her mother overcame voter suppression and became an activist in her community.
by Honorée Fanonne Jeffers via Kenyon Review on December 1, 2020
A man sitting on a table.

A More Perfect Union

On the Black labor organizers who fought for civil rights after Reconstruction and through the twentieth century.
by Arvind Dilawar via Lapham’s Quarterly on November 16, 2020
Photograph of Ida B. Wells

Crusader for Justice

Ida B. Wells reported on lynching in the South, risking her own safety.
by Deborah Gardner, Amari Pollard, Emily Sutton via Southern Cultures on November 5, 2020
A Black enslaved woman holding a white child.

The Visual Documentation of Racist Violence in America

Before and during the Civil War, both enslavers and abolitionists used photography to garner support for their causes.
by Mary Niall Mitchell via Black Perspectives on November 4, 2020

The Long Shadow of Racial Fascism

Radical Black thinkers have long argued that racial slavery created its own unique form of American fascism.
by Alberto Toscano via Boston Review on October 27, 2020
New York

The So-Called 'Kidnapping Club' Featured Cops Selling Free Black New Yorkers Into Slavery

Outright racism met financial opportunity when men like Isiah Rynders accrued wealth through legal, but nefarious, means.
by Jonathan Daniel Wells via Smithsonian on October 14, 2020
People holding protest signs

On the Fight for Black Voting Rights at the Turn of the 20th-Century

A rally at Faneuil Hall in support of the Fourteenth Amendment and congressional investigation of southern disfranchisement.
by Kerri K. Greenidge via Literary Hub on October 14, 2020
A protester holds their hands up in front of a police car in Ferguson, Missouri, on November 25, 2014.

How Being “Woke” Lost Its Meaning

How a Black activist watchword got co-opted in the culture war.
by Aja Romano via Vox on October 9, 2020
Benjamin Tillman statue

American History Is Getting Whitewashed, Again

As demands for racial justice grow, Trump is pushing historical mythmaking into high gear.
by Kali Holloway via The Nation on October 2, 2020
Republican Warren G. Harding speaking to voters from his front porch in Ohio.

How the Promise of Normalcy Won the 1920 Election

A hundred years ago, the U.S. was riven by disease, inflamed with racial violence, and torn between isolation and globalism. Sound familiar?
by Thomas Mallon via The New Yorker on September 21, 2020
African American man at a desk with microphones, nameplate shows he is Newark's Mayor Kenneth Gibson.

Police Power and the Election of Newark’s First Black Mayor

Fifty years ago, Newark, New Jersey, elected its first Black mayor—Kenneth Gibson—at a moment when there was an urgency to address police violence.
by Andrew Grim via Black Perspectives on September 18, 2020
Rutherford B. Hayes and Donald Trump.
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The Election From Our Past That Blares a Warning for 2020

A contested presidential election in 1876 produced a devastating compromise.
by Richard Kreitner via Made By History on September 11, 2020
Donald Trump.
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Trump’s 2020 Playbook Is Coming Straight from Southern Enslavers

Racism — not reformers demanding redress — is the source of American strife.
by Elizabeth R. Varon via Made By History on September 9, 2020
Police wielding batons face a crowd of people.

'Fascist Storm Troopers': Racist Police Violence in 1940s America

In 1949, truncheon-wielding police officers descended on the racially integrated concert of singer Paul Robeson.
by Gustavus Stadler via Al Jazeera on September 4, 2020

“To Laugh in One Hand and Cry in the Other”

The story of William Higginbotham & the Black community in Civil War Rome.
by David T. Dixon via Emerging Civil War on August 27, 2020
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