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Kids and adults free dancing.

Camille A. Brown: A Visual History of Social Dance in 25 Moves

Why do we dance? African-American social dances started as a way for enslaved Africans to keep cultural traditions alive and retain a sense of inner freedom.
by Camille A. Brown via TED on June 1, 2016

When Americans Thought Hair Was a Window Into the Soul

Christian, criminal or cowardly? People once thought your hair could hold the answer.
by Sarah Gold McBride via The Conversation on April 20, 2016

Hillary Clinton Goes Back to the Dunning School

How do you diagnose the problem of racism in America without understanding its actual history?
by Ta-Nehisi Coates via The Atlantic on January 26, 2016
Drawing of man with caption "MR R.R. Bowie, President of the Mixologist Club"

A History of Black Bartenders

In the late 19th century, Black bartenders gained esteem in the North and South. But their experiences were very different — in ways that may defy assumptions.
by David Wondrich via The Bitter Southerner on January 12, 2016
Slave revolt in Haiti.

The History of the United States’ First Refugee Crisis

Fleeing the Haitian revolution, whites and free blacks were viewed with suspicion by American slaveholders, including Thomas Jefferson.
by Nicholas Foreman via Smithsonian on January 5, 2016

Columbus Day Is the Most Important Day of Every Year

Acknowledging the truth about colonialism is crucial if we want to comprehend the world around us today.
by Jon Schwarz via The Intercept on October 12, 2015
U.S. Capitol building.

The Messiest Speakership Battle in History

160 years ago, a similarly fractured GOP took months to settle on a speaker.
by Joshua Zeitz via Politico Magazine on September 30, 2015

3 Reasons the American Revolution Was a Mistake

Washington changed the world forever when he crossed the Delaware—for the worse.
by Dylan Matthews via Vox on July 2, 2015

Juneteenth and Barbecue

The menu of Emancipation Day.
by Daniel Vaughn via Texas Monthly on June 16, 2015
Hillary Clinton in Haiti

The King and Queen of Haiti

There’s no country that more clearly illustrates the confusing nexus of Hillary Clinton’s State Department and Bill Clinton’s foundation than Haiti.
by Jonathan M. Katz via Politico Magazine on May 2, 2015

Bellatrix and the American Revolution

240 years after the American Revolution, debates over how to interpret the conflict and its leaders continue.
by Alex Cacioppo via Public Books on March 9, 2015
Black Democrats raise their hands at the Democratic Convention.

23 Maps That Explain How Democrats Went From the Party of Racism to the Party of Obama

The longest-running party in America has seen significant shifts in its ideological and geographic makeup.
by Andrew Prokop via Vox on December 8, 2014

The Struggle in Black and White: Activist Photographers Who Fought for Civil Rights

None of these iconic photographs would exist without the brave photographers documenting the civil rights movement.
by Hunter Oatman-Stanford via Collectors Weekly on October 7, 2014
Vintage advertisment for Indian Land on sale, by the U.S. Department of the Interior

Universalizing Settler Liberty

America is best understood not as the first post-colonial republic, but as an expansionist nation built on slavery and native expropriation.
by Aziz Rana, Nikhil Pal Singh via Jacobin on August 4, 2014
Elder M. Andrew Robinson-Gaither demonstrates for reparations for slavery.

The Thirteenth Amendment and a Reparations Program

The amendment, which brought an end to slavery in the U.S., could be used to begin a national debate on reparations.
by Ramsin Canon via U.S. Intellectual History Blog on July 12, 2014
Political cartoon of U.S. President Martin Van Buren sitting on a fence as men on each side try to pull him toward them.
partner

The Spirit of Party and Faction

On factional strife in the Early Republic, and why parties themselves were universally despised.
via BackStory on June 13, 2014
The house of Alfred Iverson Jr. behind a white curtain.

My Civil War

A southerner discovers the inaccuracy of the the myths he grew up with, and slowly comes to terms with his connection to the Civil War.
by John T. Edge via Oxford American on April 8, 2014

Black Is Beautiful: Why Black Dolls Matter

"Why do you have black dolls?"
by Lisa Hix via Collectors Weekly on February 21, 2013
Income tax form

Tax Time

Why we pay.
by Jill Lepore via The New Yorker on November 19, 2012

A Topic Best Avoided

After the Civil War, Abraham Lincoln faced the issue of sorting out a nation divided over the issue of freed slaves. But what were his views on it?
by Nicholas Guyatt via London Review of Books on December 1, 2011
John Ridge

Cherokee Slaveholders and Radical Abolitionists

An unlikely alliance in antebellum America.
by Natalie Joy via Commonplace on July 1, 2011
A woman waving to a man who is joining passing soldiers. From the sheet music for "The Soldier's Farewell to His Bride," 1864.
partner

The Woman’s War

Gender dynamics on the home front, and the ways in which the Civil War is distinct from other American conflicts.
via BackStory on March 31, 2011
The Pirates’ Ruse, early 19th century engraving, depicting people standing on deck in view of another ship pretend everything is normal, while armed pirates hide out of view of a nearby American vessel.

The Poetics of History from Below

All good storytellers tell a big story within a little story, and so do all good historians.
by Marcus Rediker via Perspectives on History on September 1, 2010

How Poverty Was, and Was Not, Pictured Before the Civil War

Images were important in defining the Republic between the Revolution and the Civil War and they distinctively both did and did not show Americans in need.
by Jonathan Prude via Commonplace on April 12, 2010
A cream colored map depicting the Middle Passage and trade routes between North America, South America, Africa, and Europe.

What Was Africa to Them?

How historians have understood Africa and the Black diaspora in global conversations about race and identity.
by Kwame Anthony Appiah via New York Review of Books on September 27, 2007

Making Sense of Robert E. Lee

“It is well that war is so terrible, or we should grow too fond of it.”— Robert E. Lee, at Fredericksburg
by Roy Blount Jr. via Smithsonian on July 1, 2003
Caricature of Christopher Columbus

The Lost Mariner

The self-confidence that kept Columbus going was his undoing.
by Elizabeth Kolbert via The New Yorker on October 6, 2002
A person at a rally

An Open Letter to My Sister, Miss Angela Davis

Since we live in an age in which silence is not only criminal but suicidal, I have been making as much noise as I can.
by James Baldwin via New York Review of Books on January 7, 1971
John Brown

Three Interviews With Old John Brown

Atlantic writer William Phillips conducted three interviews with Brown before Brown's fateful raid on Harper's Ferry.
by William A. Phillips via The Atlantic on November 30, 1879
A painting of the physician Iapyx removing an arrowhead from the hero Aeneas.

Two Generals Contest the Definition of Cruelty

Hood and Sherman exchange epistolary fire in 1864.
by William Tecumseh Sherman, John B. Hood via Lapham’s Quarterly on September 14, 1864
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