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African American prison laborers.

A School District Wants to Relocate the Bodies of 95 Black Forced-Labor Prisoners

A school district owns the property where the bodies of 95 black convict-lease prisoners from Jim Crow era were buried.
by Meagan Flynn via Washington Post on October 25, 2018

"The Most Potent Money Power": Slave Traders, Dark Money, and Elections

In the midst of the secession crisis, Unionists accused slave traders of waging an assault on democracy.
by Robert K. D. Colby via Muster on October 19, 2018

In the Dismal Swamp

Though Donald Trump has made it into a catchphrase, he didn’t come up with the metaphor “drain the swamp.”
by Sam Worley via Popula on September 20, 2018

The First Floridians

In St. Augustine lie the ruins of Fort Mose, built in 1738 as the first free black settlement in what would become the United States.
by Jordan Blumetti via The Bitter Southerner on September 3, 2018
W.E.B. Du Bois

The Legacy of Black Reconstruction

Du Bois's "Black Reconstruction in America" showed that the black freedom struggle has always been one for radical democracy.
by Robert Greene II via Jacobin on August 27, 2018
Robert E. Lee surrendering to Ulysses Grant.
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Why Some White Americans see Racial Equality as Oppression

White victimhood's roots in the Civil War.
by Martha Hodes via Made By History on August 27, 2018

An Outline of Over 200 Years of Silhouettes

The oldest object on view shows on brown paperboard one of the earliest known images of a slave in the U.S.
by Claire Voon via Hyperallergic on August 13, 2018

Pride and Prejudice? The Americans Who Fly the Confederate Flag

A listening tour in Mississippi asks flag supporters why they still support a symbol that represents pain, division and difficult history.
by Donna Ladd via The Guardian on August 6, 2018

Colonialism Did Not Just Create Slavery: It Changed Geology

Researchers suggest effects of the Colonial Era can be detected in rocks or even air.
by Robin McKie via The Guardian on June 10, 2018
The cast of Hamilton on stage.

The Issue on the Table: Is 'Hamilton' Good for History?

In a new book, top historians discuss the musical’s educational value, historical accuracy and racial revisionism.
by Kate Keller via Smithsonian Magazine on May 30, 2018

Rarely Seen 19th-Century Silhouette of a Same-Sex Couple Living Together Goes On View

A new show, featuring the paper cutouts, reveals unheralded early Americans.
by Roger Catlin via Smithsonian Magazine on May 25, 2018
Map of the arms trade.

The Roots of America’s Gun Culture

How 18th-century British arms sales, the slave trade, and the Revolutionary War contributed to the mess we have today.
by Priya Satia, Isaac Chotiner via Slate on April 19, 2018
Civil War era envelope with a political cartoon with Confederate leaders hung as traitors.

When the Government Refused to Use Slavery to Recruit Soldiers, the Media Had No Qualms

With questionable motives, America finally saw black Union soldiers living and dying alongside their white countrymen.
by Brendan Seibel via Timeline on April 17, 2018

Pushing the Dual Emancipation Thesis Beyond its Troublesome Origins

"Masterless Men" shows how poor whites benefited from slavery's end, but does not diminish the experiences of the enslaved.
by Adrienne Petty via Black Perspectives on March 8, 2018
Anthony Burns
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Sanctuary-City Advocates Are Like Abolitionists – Not Secessionists

A history lesson for attorney general Jeff Sessions.
by Judith Giesberg via Made By History on March 6, 2018
Still from Black Panther

How 'Black Panther' Taps Into 500 Years of History

The film draws on centuries of black dreams of independence to create Wakanda.
by N. D. B. Connolly via The Hollywood Reporter on February 16, 2018
Leander Woods’s gravestone in Nashville National Cemetery.

The Man Who Fought the Klan and Won

America loves a good scoundrel. We should remember this one.
by Betsy Phillips via Washington Post on February 8, 2018

Black Charleston and the Battle Over Confederate Statues

The debate over a Charleston monument to John Calhoun exemplifies the problems of contextualizing Confederate monuments.
by Ashleigh Lawrence-Sanders via Black Perspectives on January 29, 2018
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Trump’s View of America as a White Nation Is as American as Apple Pie

But it’s seriously dated. And there's another tradition he could draw on.
by Benjamin E. Park via HNN on January 15, 2018
Alexander Hamilton

The Many Alexander Hamiltons

An interview with a historian of Hamilton. That is, an “interview” in the modern sense of questions and answers and not in the Hamilton-Burr sense of pistols at dawn.
by Joanne B. Freeman via Humanities on January 1, 2018
Camel.

The Dark Underbelly of Jefferson Davis's Camels

How the U.S. Army's antebellum camel experimentation paved the way for the illicit trafficking of enslaved Africans.
by Michael E. Woods via Muster on November 21, 2017

'This Is Surreal': Descendants of Slaves and Slaveowners Meet On US Plantation

At Prospect Hill, people came from as far as Liberia for an unlikely gathering that led to a scene of visible emotion – with ‘a lot to talk about.'
by Alan Huffman via The Guardian on November 16, 2017
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A World in a Box

Harvard digitizes two centuries of colonial history.
by Benjamin Breen on November 15, 2017
Belle Meade Plantation in Tennessee.

Black Women’s Voices and the Archive

The archive silences the voices of Black women, invalidating the realities of Black women and subjecting enslaved and free(d) women to epistemic violence.
by Halee Robinson via Black Perspectives on November 15, 2017

Trump Sounds Ignorant of History. But Racist Ideas Often Masquerade as Ignorance.

The White House's fumbling about slavery and the Civil War fits a long pattern in American politics.
by Ibram X. Kendi via Washington Post on November 13, 2017

Confederate Revisionist History

Americans should not honor a revolt to uphold slavery with monuments or florid displays.
by Douglas Massey via Public Books on November 8, 2017
Robert E. Lee statue
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Robert E. Lee WAS a Man of Honor. That’s the Problem.

For white southerners, honor had little to do with justice.
by Kevin Waite via Made By History on November 7, 2017

Still Worrying about The Civil War

John Kelly's statement about the Civil War is not surprising, but they are a reminder that we should still be worrying about the Civil War.
by Adam I. P. Smith via Adam I. P. Smith: Historian on November 2, 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
Protester with a sign that reads "Save our Monuments"

Pondering the Question of Confederate Honor

Yes, honorable men can fight for dishonorable causes.
by David French via National Review on November 1, 2017
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