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Workers with a steam plough on a sugar plantation in Puerto Rico.

How Wall Street Colonized the Caribbean

The expansion of banks like Citigroup into Cuba, Haiti, and beyond reveal a story of capitalism built on blood, labor, and race.
by Peter James Hudson via Boston Review on June 18, 2019

The Artists and Writers Who Fought Racism With Satire in Jim Crow Mississippi

How William Faulkner and a small group of provocateurs challenged segregation in ways that resonate today.
by William Browning via Atlas Obscura on May 29, 2019

An Unreconstructed Nation: On Henry Louis Gates Jr.’s “Stony the Road”

A new history of Reconstruction traces the roots of American “respectability” politics through artwork.
by Robert D. Bland via Los Angeles Review of Books on May 10, 2019

Edmund White on Stonewall, the ‘Decisive Uprising’ of Gay Liberation

At what point does resistance become the only choice?
by Edmund White via Literary Hub on April 30, 2019

Like Jackie Robinson, Baseball Should Honor Curt Flood's Sacrifice

Fifty years ago, Flood took a stand and paved the way for free agency.
by William C. Rhoden via Andscape on April 15, 2019

War Happens in Dark Places, Too

White southern men who didn't own slaves often escaped to the swamps to avoid conscription and wait out the Civil War.
by Keri Leigh Merritt via Contingent on March 3, 2019

When Nazis Took Manhattan

In 1939, 20,000 American Nazis rallied in New York. It was billed as a "Pro-American" rally, but championed Hitler and fascism.
by Nellie Gilles, Sarah Kate Kramer, Joe Richman via Radio Diaries on February 20, 2019

In "The Haunting of Lin-Manuel Miranda," Ishmael Reed Revives an Old Debate

If “Hamilton” is subversive, the mischievous Reed asks, what is it subverting?
by Hua Hsu via The New Yorker on January 9, 2019

In Found Audio, a Forgotten Civil Rights Leader Says Coming Out Was an Absolute Necessity

Though Bayard Rustin, close adviser to Martin Luther King Jr., was gay, his legacy is not well known in the queer community.
by Michel Martin via NPR on January 6, 2019
Freed slaves Wilson, Charley, Rebecca, and Rosa, New Orleans, 1864.

The Origins of Birthright Citizenship

The Fourteenth Amendment captures the idea that no people born in the United States should be forced to live in the shadows.
by Robert L. Tsai via Boston Review on November 9, 2018

Prisons for Sale, Histories Not Included

The intertwined history of mass incarceration and environmentalism in Upstate New York's prison-building boom.
by Clarence Jefferson Hall Jr. via Edge Effects on October 23, 2018
Painting of the Roman Senate.

Rome's Heroes and America's Founding Fathers

Why the statesmen of the Roman Republic had such an influence on the patriots of the Revolutionary era.
by Paul Meany via Journal of the American Revolution on October 23, 2018
Hooded people kneel before a cross at a Ku Klux Klan rally.

When the Klan Came to Town

History reminds us that firm and sometimes violent opposition to racists is a time-honored American tradition.
by Michael McCanne via Boston Review on October 23, 2018

Capitol Hill Needs Thomas Paine Memorial

Why is there still no memorial to Paine, the immigrant whose writing galvanized the American Revolution?
by Jeff Biggers via The Hill on October 21, 2018
Paul Ortiz’s “African American and Latinx History of the United States.”

Beyond People’s History

On Paul Ortiz’s “African American and Latinx History of the United States.”
by Samantha Schuyler via Los Angeles Review of Books on September 29, 2018

How ‘No More Miss America’ Announced a Feminist Upheaval

A bold protest 50 years ago put a renewed women’s liberation movement on the public map—and offers lessons for today’s resistance.
by Laura Tanenbaum, Mark Engler via The Nation on September 7, 2018
Statue of John C. Calhoun and spire of Emanuel AME church in Charleston.

The South Carolina Monument That Symbolizes Clashing Memories of Slavery

In Charleston, a monument to John C. Calhoun squares off against its symbolic rival, the steeple of Emanuel A.M.E. Church, where a white supremacist killed nine.
by Ethan J. Kytle, Blain Roberts via Zócalo Public Square on September 6, 2018

Aretha Franklin’s Revolution

The soul singer was an architect of the civil-rights movement as much as a witness to it.
by Vann R. Newkirk II via The Atlantic on August 16, 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

John Wesley Harding at Fifty: WWDD?

Bob Dylan's confessional album resisted the political radicalism and activism of 1967.
by Anthony Chaney via U.S. Intellectual History Blog on June 13, 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

Kanye’s Brand of “Freethinking” Has a Long, Awful History

His condemnation of enslaved people’s failure to rebel is drawn from a dangerous ideology that’s older than the United States.
by Rebecca Onion via Slate on May 2, 2018
A horse-drawn streetcar on Canal Street in New Orleans (ca.1860s).

The New Orleans Streetcar Protests of 1867

The lesser-known beginning of the desegregation of public transportation.
by John Bardes via We're History on April 28, 2018

The Big Picture: Black Women Activists and the FBI

For more than a century, the American government has surveilled and harassed activists from marginalized communities.
by Ashley D. Farmer via Public Books on November 21, 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
Young men show a reporter how to make molotov cocktails in the Watts neighborhood of Los Angeles, California, in July 1966. (Bill Ray/Life Picture Collection/Getty Images)

One of America's Smartest Magazines Published a Molotov Cocktail How-To in 1967

A riot represents people making history.
by Nina Renata Aron via Timeline on September 23, 2017
The front pages of major newspapers the day after the Greensboro Massacre.

Fighting the Klan in Reagan’s America

The KKK was on the march in the 1980s. What strategies worked to stem their rise?
by Branko Marcetic via Jacobin on August 25, 2017

Laundered Violence

Law and protest in Durham, North Carolina.
by Jedediah Britton-Purdy via n+1 on August 23, 2017

Strikers, Scabs, and Sugar Mongers

How immigrant labor struggles shaped the Hawaii we know today.
by Natasha Varner via Jacobin on August 22, 2017

Chronicling “America’s African Instrument”

The banjo's history and its symbolism of community, slavery, resistance, and ultimately America itself.
by Laurent Dubois, Stephanie Kingsley via Perspectives on History on June 19, 2017
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