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Mental Illness Is Not in Your Head
Decades of biological research haven't improved diagnosis or treatment. We should look to society, not to the brain.
by
Marco Ramos
via
Boston Review
on
May 17, 2022
partner
The Mass Shooting in Buffalo Reflects Deeply Rooted American Ideas
Until we grapple with our history, white supremacist terrorism will keep happening.
by
Jesse Curtis
via
Made By History
on
May 16, 2022
The Right to Leave
Thomas Jefferson was a proponent of open migration. But who qualified as a refugee?
by
Stephanie Degooyer
via
Lapham’s Quarterly
on
March 29, 2022
Behind the Critical Race Theory Crackdown
Racial blamelessness and the politics of forgetting.
by
Sam Adler-Bell
via
The Forum
on
January 13, 2022
Classical Music and the Color Line
Despite its universalist claims, the field is reckoning with a long legacy of racial exclusion.
by
Douglas Shadle
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Boston Review
on
December 15, 2021
Face Surveillance Was Always Flawed
On the origins, use, and abuse of mugshots.
by
Amanda Levendowski
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Public Books
on
November 20, 2021
Sins of the Fathers
In Life of a Klansman, Edward Ball’s white supremacist great-great-grandfather becomes a case study in the enduring legacy of slavery.
by
Colin Grant
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New York Review of Books
on
October 28, 2021
When Black History Is Unearthed, Who Gets to Speak for the Dead?
Efforts to rescue African American burial grounds and remains have exposed deep conflicts over inheritance and representation.
by
Jill Lepore
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The New Yorker
on
September 24, 2021
Circassian Beauty in the American Sideshow
Among P. T. Barnum's “human curiosities” was a supposed escapee from an Ottoman harem, marketed as both the pinnacle of white beauty and an exotic other.
by
Betsy Golden Kellem
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The Public Domain Review
on
September 16, 2021
The Anti-Asian Roots of Today’s Anti-Immigrant Politics
Long before Trump, politicians on the country’s West Coast mobilized a white working-class base through violent hate of Chinese and Japanese immigrants.
by
Mari Uyehara
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The Nation
on
August 9, 2021
Will the Mass Robbery of Native American Graves Ever End?
For centuries, everyone from archaeologists to amateurs pillaged artifacts — and human remains. Now, the FBI is cracking down on those who continue to dig.
by
Elizabeth Evitts Dixon
via
Washington Post Magazine
on
July 8, 2021
Meet Benjamin Banneker, the Black Scientist Who Documented Brood X Cicadas in the Late 1700s
A prominent intellectual and naturalist, the Maryland native wrote extensively on natural phenomena and anti-slavery causes.
by
Nora McGreevy
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Smithsonian
on
May 7, 2021
The Entwined History of Freedom and Racism
Liberty for some has always entailed a lack of liberty for many others.
by
Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò
via
The Nation
on
May 3, 2021
America Never Wanted the Tired, Poor, Huddled Masses
The U.S. is a diverse nation of immigrants—but it was not intended to be, and its historical biases continue to haunt the present.
by
Caitlin Dickerson
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The Atlantic
on
April 5, 2021
The Crimson Klan
The KKK was clearly present at Harvard. But the university rarely mentions the 20th century in its attempts to reckon with its past.
by
Simon J. Levien
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The Harvard Crimson
on
March 29, 2021
The Mystery of ‘Harriet Cole’
Whose body was harvested to create a spectacular anatomical specimen, and did that person know they would be on display more than a century later?
by
Jessica Leigh Hester
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Atlas Obscura
on
March 18, 2021
Propagating Propaganda
Toward the end of WWI, as the U.S. peddled Liberty Bonds, a goldfish dealer bred a stars-and-stripes-colored carp: a living, swimming embodiment of patriotism.
by
Laurel Waycott
via
The Public Domain Review
on
March 17, 2021
partner
What Early American Infrastructure Politics Can Teach the Biden Administration
Infrastructure plans are always political. The key is being inclusive and focusing on the public good.
by
Keith Pluymers
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Harrison Diskin
via
Made By History
on
March 16, 2021
Vikings, Crusaders, Confederates
Misunderstood historical imagery at the January 6 Capitol insurrection.
by
Matthew Gabriele
via
Perspectives on History
on
January 12, 2021
Degeneration Nation
How a Gilded Age best seller shaped American race discourse.
by
Adam Morris
via
Lapham’s Quarterly
on
December 14, 2020
New Orleans: Vanishing Graves
Holt Cemetery has been filled to capacity many times over; each gravesite has been used for dozens of burials.
by
Charlie Lee
via
The American Scholar
on
December 7, 2020
Who Owns the Evidence of Slavery’s Violence?
A lawsuit against Harvard University demands the return of an ancestor’s stolen image.
by
Thomas A. Foster
via
Public Seminar
on
September 10, 2020
The Empire of All Maladies
Indigenous scholars have long contested the “virgin-soil epidemics” thesis. Today, it is clear that the disease thesis simply doesn’t hold up.
by
Nick Estes
via
The Baffler
on
July 6, 2020
Historical Insights on COVID-19, the 1918 Influenza Pandemic, and Racial Disparities
Illuminating a path forward.
by
Lakshmi Krishnan
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S. Michelle Ogunwole
,
Lisa A. Cooper
via
Annals Of Internal Medicine
on
June 5, 2020
The Imperial History of US Policing: An Interview with Stuart Schrader
Dan Berger interviews Stuart Schrader about his new book on US imperialism.
by
Dan Berger
,
Stuart Schrader
via
Black Perspectives
on
January 29, 2020
The Paradise of the Latrine
American toilet-building and the continuities of colonial and postcolonial development.
by
Simon Toner
via
Modern American History
on
November 29, 2019
How Cultural Anthropologists Redefined Humanity
A brave band of scholars set out to save us from racism and sexism. What happened?
by
Louis Menand
via
The New Yorker
on
August 29, 2019
How a Historian Uncovered Ronald Reagan’s Racist Remarks to Richard Nixon
In a taped call with Richard Nixon, Ronald Reagan described the African delegates to the United Nations in luridly racist terms.
by
Timothy Naftali
,
Isaac Chotiner
via
The New Yorker
on
August 2, 2019
Race in Black and White
Slavery and the Civil War were central to the development of photography as both a technology and an art.
by
Alexis L. Boylan
via
Boston Review
on
June 3, 2019
partner
How Eugenics Gave Rise To Modern Homophobia
The roots of anti-gay attitudes lay in white supremacy.
by
Hugh Ryan
via
Made By History
on
May 28, 2019
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