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When the Enslaved Went South
How Mexico—and the fugitives who went there—helped make freedom possible in America.
by
Alice L. Baumgartner
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The New Yorker
on
November 19, 2020
What We Call Freedom Has Never Been About Being Free
The modern conception of freedom emerged as an antidemocratic reaction by elites who wanted to curtail state power.
by
Daniel Steinmetz-Jenkins
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Annelien de Dijn
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The Nation
on
October 29, 2020
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As Evictions Loom, Cities Revisit a Housing Solution From the 70s
Proposals giving tenants the right to purchase their building are being revived as Covid-19 puts renters at risk.
by
Clyde Haberman
via
Retro Report
on
October 1, 2020
Black Political Activism and the Fight for Voting Rights in Missouri
Nick Sacco takes a moment to remember the 15th Amendment.
by
Nick Sacco
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Muster
on
September 29, 2020
‘Freedom’ Means Something Different to Liberals and Conservatives
How two competing definitions of the idea evolved over 250 years—and why they remain largely irreconcilable.
by
Annelien de Dijn
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TIME
on
August 25, 2020
Take it From a Historian. We Don't Owe Anything to Confederate Monuments.
Trump spends so much time defending statues not because he cares about history, but precisely because he doesn’t
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Timothy Snyder
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The Guardian
on
July 23, 2020
Racism on the Road
In 1963, after Sam Cooke was turned away from a hotel in Shreveport, Louisiana, because he was black, he wrote “A Change Is Gonna Come.” He was right.
by
Sarah A. Seo
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New York Review of Books
on
July 23, 2020
When Black Sharecroppers in the South Rose Up
In the 1930s, Socialist and Communist organizers tried to help Black sharecroppers rise up against their oppressors.
by
Arvind Dilawar
,
Nan Elizabeth Woodruff
via
Jacobin
on
July 7, 2020
The Nativist Tradition
Two recent books put the reemergence of anti-immigrant sentiment in the Trump era into historical relief.
by
Joel Suarez
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Dissent
on
July 6, 2020
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The 1968 Kerner Commission Report Still Echoes Across America
Anger over policing and inequality boiled over more than 50 years ago, and a landmark report warned that it could happen again.
by
Clyde Haberman
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Retro Report
on
June 23, 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
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Retropolis
on
June 21, 2020
Juneteenth And National New Beginnings
The holiday is a reminder of the Civil War's larger meaning, the unfulfilled promise of Reconstruction, and the reinforcement of democratic values.
by
Tera W. Hunter
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Essence
on
June 19, 2020
NOLA Resistance Oral History Project
This oral history project records testimony from individuals who were active in the fight for racial equality in New Orleans between 1954 and 1976.
via
The Historic New Orleans Collection
on
June 1, 2020
How White Backlash Controls American Progress
Backlash dynamics are one of the defining patterns of the country’s history.
by
Lawrence B. Glickman
via
The Atlantic
on
May 21, 2020
How the Republican Party Took Over the Supreme Court
The 50-year effort to advance a conservative legal agenda.
by
John Fabian Witt
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The New Republic
on
April 7, 2020
The Founders' Moral Mind Was Revolutionary, and Free
A new history sees the authors of the Declaration as moral agents, and sets out to capture the thinking behind the principles.
by
Bradley J. Birzer
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The American Conservative
on
April 2, 2020
How Socialism Became Un-American Through the Ad Council’s Propaganda Campaigns
Bernie Sanders is a Democratic Socialist, a potential problem for the presidential candidate. A Cold War campaign to link American-ness and capitalism helped create popular distrust of socialism.
by
Oana Godeanu-Kenworthy
via
The Conversation
on
February 27, 2020
The Gun Guy and Illegal Militia Founder Who Became President: George Washington
Our first President understood that armed citizens are essential to American freedom.
by
David Kopel
via
Reason
on
February 17, 2020
An Unfinished Revolution
A new three-part PBS documentary explores the failure of Reconstruction and the Redemption of the South.
by
James Oakes
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New York Review of Books
on
November 21, 2019
American Slavery and ‘the Relentless Unforeseen’
What 1619 has become to the history of American slavery, 1688 is to the history of American antislavery.
by
Sean Wilentz
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New York Review of Books
on
November 19, 2019
The Socialist Party in New Deal–Era America
The 1930s Socialist Party is often seen as a marginal force, but its successes laid the groundwork for the next generation of organizing.
by
Shawn Gude
,
Jack Altman
via
Jacobin
on
October 1, 2019
State of the Unions
What happened to America’s labor movement?
by
Caleb Crain
via
The New Yorker
on
August 26, 2019
Thieves of Experience: How Google and Facebook Corrupted Capitalism
By reengineering the economy and society to their own benefit, Google and Facebook are undermining personal freedom and corroding democracy.
by
Nicholas Carr
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Los Angeles Review of Books
on
January 15, 2019
Why Do We Blame Women For Prohibition?
One hundred years later, it’s time to challenge a long-held bias.
by
Mark Lawrence Schrad
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Politico Magazine
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January 13, 2019
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Perp Walks: When Police Roll Out the Blue Carpet
Unfair maneuver or a strong warning to would-be criminals?
by
Bonnie Bertram
,
Sandra McDaniel
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Retro Report
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December 2, 2018
Why Strikes Matter
On the history (and future) of class struggle in America.
by
Erik Loomis
via
Literary Hub
on
October 3, 2018
How ‘the Kingfish’ Turned Corporations into People
Seventy-five years before Citizens United, the Supreme Court ruled that newspapers were entitled to First Amendment protections.
by
Adam Winkler
via
New York Review of Books
on
February 28, 2018
The Civil Rights Act of 1964: A Long Struggle for Freedom
A Library of Congress exhibit on the context, passage, and significance of the Civil Rights Act of 1964.
via
Library of Congress
on
September 10, 2014
How the Complete Meaning of July Fourth Is Slipping Away
John Adams would not be happy to see what Independence Day has become.
by
Gordon S. Wood
via
The New Republic
on
July 4, 2011
Pursuing the Pursuit of Happiness
Traditional Supreme Court precedent may depend too much on substantive due process to safeguard human rights.
by
Laurence H. Tribe
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New York Review of Books
on
September 24, 1998
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