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Collage of people and headlines relating to the Chicano moratorium.

50 Years Later: How the Chicano Moratorium Changed L.A.

Upon the 50th anniversary of the Chicano Moratorium, participants reflect back on the movement that changed their lives and L.A. culture forever.
via Los Angeles Times on August 23, 2020

History, Civil Rights and the Original Cancel Culture

The initial movement to build memorials to the Confederacy and its supposed “lost cause” were the original cancel culture.
by Keri Leigh Merritt, Chris Richardson via The Hill on August 4, 2020
A photograph of enslaved laborers picking and carrying cotton in a field near Montgomery, Alabama.

Capitalism, Slavery, and Power over Price

The debate between historians and economists over the definition of capitalism, and the legacy of slavery in the structure of today's economy.
by Caitlin C. Rosenthal, Johnny Fulfer via The Economic Historian on August 3, 2020
Women around a table of papers and forms, with a League of Women Voters banner on the wall.

What the First Women Voters Experienced When Registering for the 1920 Election

The process varied by state, with some making accommodations for the new voting bloc and others creating additional obstacles.
by Meilan Solly via Smithsonian on July 30, 2020

Will The Reckoning Over Racist Names Include These Prisons?

Many prisons, especially in the South, are named after racist officials and former plantations.
by Keri Blackinger via The Marshall Project on July 29, 2020

J.F.K.’s “Profiles in Courage” Has a Racism Problem. What Should We Do About It?

Kennedy defined courage as a willingness to take an unpopular stand in service of a larger, higher cause. But what cause?
by Nicholas Lemann via The New Yorker on July 23, 2020
Tent for a Sons of Confederate Veterans camp, with flags and memorabilia.

Ohio Has Always Had Confederate Apologists

In June, Ohio legislators refused to ban confederate memorabilia from county fairs. The state has long had a complicated relationship with the Confederacy.
by Eric Michael Rhodes via Belt Magazine on July 6, 2020

Was El Monte Really Founded by White Pioneers?

A new book explores the history of the people who have been written out of the L.A. suburb's longtime origin story.
by Steve Chiotakis via KCRW on June 24, 2020
Youth members of a German-American Bund camp raising a flag, 1934.

American Fascism: It Has Happened Here

Americans of the interwar period were perfectly clear about one fact we have lost sight of today: all fascism is indigenous, by definition.
by Sarah Churchwell via New York Review of Books on June 22, 2020

The Republican President who Called for Racial Justice in America After Tulsa Massacre

Warren G. Harding’s comments about race and equality were remarkable for 1921.
by James D. Robenalt via Retropolis on June 21, 2020
A man adjusts a protest sign at the base of the Confederate memorial known as the “Lost Cause” in Decatur, Ga.
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Removing Lost Cause Monuments Is The First Step in Dismantling White Supremacy

African American activists have long coupled these efforts with fighting against racist laws and racial violence.
by Ashleigh Lawrence-Sanders via Made By History on June 19, 2020
From left, actors Bernnadette Stanis, John Amos and Ja'Net Dubois accept the Impact Award for “Good Times” at the 2006 TV Land Awards in Santa Monica, Calif. (Kevin Winter/Getty Images)
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Television Is Already Moving to Address Racism — But Will the Effort Last?

Past network efforts to address racism faded as uprisings stopped dominating headlines.
by Kate L. Flach via Made By History on June 11, 2020
Statue of George Washington with an American flag tied to his face to cover his nose and mouth, like a covid mask or a gag.

Direct Action and the Rejection of Monumental History

As people have gathered across the country to oppose police violence, they have targeted statues, monuments, and buildings commemorating white supremacy.
by Jacob F. Lee, Mathew E. Stanley via CounterPunch on June 5, 2020

How Today’s Protests Compare to 1968, Explained by a Historian

Heather Ann Thompson explains what’s changed and what has stayed the same.
by Dylan Matthews, Heather Ann Thompson via Vox on June 2, 2020

Alternate Histories

A conversation with John Nichols about the night in 1944 that altered the trajectory of the Democratic Party.
by John Nichols, Wen Stephenson via The Baffler on May 21, 2020
African Americans gather near a Confederate monument.

The Confederacy’s Long Shadow

Why did a predominantly black district have streets named after Southern generals? In Hollywood, Florida, one man thought it was time for change.
by Dierdre Mask via The Economist on April 2, 2020
Asian-Americans protesting COVID-19-related racism in San Francisco's Chinatown
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Xenophobia in the Age of COVID-19

Scapegoating immigrant groups in times of disease outbreak has a long history.
via Retro Report on March 30, 2020
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Transcontinental

Ed Ayers visits the site where the transcontinental railroad was completed. He considers the project's human costs, and discovers how the environment and photography played key roles on the rails.
via Future Of America's Past on March 23, 2020

6 Myths About the History of Black People in America

Six historians weigh in on the biggest misconceptions about black history, including the Tuskegee experiment and enslaved people’s finances.
by Jessica Machado, Karen Turner via Vox on February 18, 2020

Rules of Engagement

The value of shame in objects.
by Wendy S. Walters via Lapham’s Quarterly on February 5, 2020

Keeping the Country

In southwest Florida, the Myakka River Valley — a place of mystery and myth — is under threat of development.
by Michael Adno via The Bitter Southerner on January 28, 2020

A Meditation on Natural Light and the Use of Fire in United States Slavery

Responding to “Race and the Paradoxes of the Night,” by Celeste Henery.
by Tyler D. Parry via Black Perspectives on January 13, 2020
A circa 1830 illustration of a slave auction in America. Rischgitz/Hulton Archive—Getty Images.

'The Slaves Dread New Year's Day the Worst': The Grim History of January 1

New Year's Day used to be widely known as "Hiring Day" or "Heartbreak Day"
by Olivia B. Waxman via TIME on December 27, 2019

Trump's not Richard Nixon. He's Andrew Johnson.

Betrayal. Paranoia. Cowardice. We've been here before.
by Tim Murphy via Mother Jones on December 20, 2019
AHA executive officers, 1889

White Supremacy in the Academy: The 1913 Meeting of the American Historical Association

The historical interpretations crafted by the men of the Dunning School might now be largely discredited and discarded. But their legacies remain.
by Bradley D. Proctor via The Activist History Review on December 6, 2019
Travels through Virginia. From Theodor de Bry's 'America', Vol. I, 1590, after a drawing of John White. Depicting American Indians dancing.

The Construction of America, in the Eyes of the English

In Theodor de Bry’s illustrations for "True Report of the New Found Land of Virginia," the Algonquin are made to look like the Irish. Surprise.
by Ed Simon via JSTOR Daily on December 4, 2019

Civility Is Overrated

The gravest danger to American democracy isn’t an excess of vitriol—it’s the false promise of civility.
by Adam Serwer via The Atlantic on November 12, 2019
Black girls exiting a school building accompanied by U.S. Marshalls.

First Day of School—1960, New Orleans

Leona Tate thought it must be Mardi Gras. Gail thought they were going to kill her.
via The Kitchen Sisters on November 12, 2019

The Massacre That Spawned the Alt-Right

Forty years ago, a gang of Klansmen and Nazis murdered five communists in broad daylight. America has never been the same.
by Peter Keating, Shaun Assael via Politico Magazine on November 3, 2019
African-American cowboys in Bonham, Texas, circa 1913

The Real Texas

What is Texas? Should we even think about so large and diverse a place as having an essence that can be distilled?
by Annette Gordon-Reed via New York Review of Books on October 24, 2019
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