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Slave and Free Black Marriage in the Nineteenth Century

During and after slavery, some whites considered legal marriage too sacred an institution to be offered to black Americans.
by Vanessa M. Holden via Black Perspectives on September 19, 2018

"Though Declared to be American Citizens"

The Colored Convention Movement, black citizenship, and the Fourteenth Amendment.
by Andrew K. Diemer via Muster on July 11, 2018
Ta-Nehisi Coates.

The Afro-Pessimist Temptation

An examination of the tragic echoes of Reconstruction-era politics following Obama's presidency.
by Darryl Pinckney via New York Review of Books on May 23, 2018

The Racist History of the ‘Crisis Actor’ Attacks on Parkland School Shooting Survivors

Courageous Americans have been undermined by conspiracy theories for more than 150 years.
by Michael E. Miller via Retropolis on February 23, 2018
Whites at a Trump campaign rally.

Does the White Working Class Really Vote Against Its Own Interests?

Trump has revived an age-old debate about why some people choose race over class—and how far they will go to protect the system.
by Joshua Zeitz via Politico Magazine on December 31, 2017

Coates and West in Jackson

America loves pitting black intellectuals against each other, but today's activists need both Coates and West.
by Robin D. G. Kelley via Boston Review on December 22, 2017

Street Fighting Woman

A new biography of Lucy Parsons makes it clear that the activist deserves attention apart from her more well-known husband.
by Eric Foner via New York Review of Books on December 21, 2017
A prison cell with a television tuned to election coverage.
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Why Felon Disenfranchisement Doesn't Violate the Constitution

The justification can be found in an obscure section of the Fourteenth Amendment.
by Sara Mayeux on December 21, 2017
Robert E. Lee statue

The Fight Over Virginia’s Confederate Monuments

How the state’s past spurred a racial reckoning.
by Benjamin Wallace-Wells via The New Yorker on December 4, 2017

Let’s Relitigate the Civil War

There can be no "compromise" with the false view of America's past from Trumpists and pop historians alike.
by Jeet Heer via The New Republic on November 1, 2017

What the Civil Rights Movement Has to Do With Denim

The history of blue jeans has been whitewashed.
by Marlen Komar via Racked on October 30, 2017

Civil War Life in all its Day-to-Day Contrasts

In his latest work of history, Edward Ayers captures daily life along with the military and political moves.
by James Oakes via Washington Post on October 27, 2017
Illustration of the folk hero, John Henry, face down with a hammer in his hand.

A History of American Protest Music: This Is the Hammer That Killed John Henry

How a folk hero inspired one of the most covered songs in American history.
by Tom Maxwell via Longreads on October 4, 2017

Inside the Founding Fathers’ Debate Over What Constituted an Impeachable Offense

If not for three sparring Virginia delegates, Congress’s power to remove a president would be even more limited.
by Erick Trickey via Smithsonian on October 2, 2017

The Man the Presidency Changed

What a forgotten commander in chief can teach Donald Trump.
by Scott S. Greenberger via Politico Magazine on September 11, 2017
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Ending DACA Isn’t About the Rule of Law. It’s About Race.

The federal government has long extended amnesty to white Americans.
by Christopher F. Petrella via Made By History on September 6, 2017

The Supreme Court’s Quiet Assault on Civil Rights

The Supreme Court is quietly gutting one of the United States’ most important civil rights statutes.
by Lynn Adelman via Dissent on September 1, 2017
Confederate rally.

The Book that Explains Charlottesville

The University of Virginia has long been a bastion of white supremacy and white supremacy–validating scholarship.
by Marshall Steinbaum via Boston Review on August 14, 2017

The Lost Cause Rides Again

The prospective series takes as its premise an ugly truth that black Americans are forced to live every day: What if the Confederacy wasn’t wholly defeated?
by Ta-Nehisi Coates via The Atlantic on August 4, 2017

We Don’t Need a TV Show About the Confederacy Winning. In Many Ways, it Did.

HBO's “Confederate” assumes America is much further from its slaveholding past than it really is.
by Bree Newsome via Washington Post on August 2, 2017

A Presumption of Guilt

Capital punishment and the legacy of terror lynching in the American South.
by Bryan Stevenson via New York Review of Books on July 13, 2017

History Writ Aright

What would it take for people "to know their history"? Pay attention to the silences.
by Brendan Wolfe via brendanwolfe.com on July 4, 2017

The Fight for Health Care Has Always Been About Civil Rights

In dismantling Obamacare and slashing Medicaid, Republicans would strike a blow against signature victories for racial equality in America.
by Vann R. Newkirk II via The Atlantic on June 27, 2017

Lynching in America

A new digital exhibit confronts the legacy of racial terror.
via Equal Justice Initiative on June 13, 2017
Busy horse and buggy outside of North Station in Boston.

The Frontiers of American Capitalism

Noam Maggor’s new book captures how it took both sides of the American continent to revitalize the economy after the Civil War.
by Eric Foner via The Nation on June 1, 2017
A worker prepares to remove a statue of Jefferson Davis.

How Robert E. Lee Got Knocked Off His Pedestal

Before New Orleans Mayor Mitch Landrieu made his celebrated speech, a grassroots movement forced the city to take down its monuments to white supremacy.
by Michael "Quess" Moore, Brentin Mock via CityLab on May 29, 2017
Mitch Landrieu

Address on Removal of Four Confederate Statues

Why New Orleans took down monuments that had been installed by supporters of the "Cult of the Lost Cause."
by Mitch Landrieu via YouTube on May 19, 2017

Out of Sight, Out of Mind: Mass Incarceration

The rise​ of mass incarceration in the early 1970s was fueled by white fear of black crime. But the fear of crime wasn’t confined to whites.
by Adam Shatz via London Review of Books on May 4, 2017
A scene from Birth of a Nation.

Births of a Nation

Cedric Robinson has a great deal to teach us about Trumpism and the significance of resistance in determining the future.
by Robin D. G. Kelley via Boston Review on March 6, 2017

'Segregation Had to Be Invented'

During the late 19th century, blacks and whites in the South lived closer together than they do today.
by Alana Semuels via The Atlantic on February 17, 2017
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