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Stokely Charmichael with microphone, speaking to crowd. Supporters are standing behind him on stage.

The Birth of Black Power

Stokely Carmichael and the speech that changed the course of the civil rights movement.
by Sally Greene via The American Scholar on April 26, 2021
Black and white photo of Barbara Bush, Lady Bird Johnson, Betty Ford, and Nancy Reagan, in 1994.

What Do We Want in a First Lady?

Lady Bird Johnson and Nancy Reagan grappled with the contradictions of a role that is at once public and private, superficial and serious.
by Amy Davidson Sorkin via The New Yorker on April 19, 2021
Headshot of Frederick Douglass

Frederick Douglass and the American Project

It would be hard to blame him if he had lost faith in the republic.
by Richard Hughes Gibson via The Hedgehog Review on February 22, 2021
A negative from a photo of Abraham Lincoln

How Historians Say Abraham Lincoln Is Quoted and Misquoted

As Presidents' Day approaches, historians look back at the most notable recent uses and misuses of "the Great Emancipator's" words.
by Olivia B. Waxman via TIME on February 11, 2021
African American men who escaped slavery at a US Army Camp.

John Wolcott Phelps’ Emancipation Proclamation

The story of John Wolcott Phelps and his push for Lincoln to emancipate all slaves.
by David T. Dixon via Emerging Civil War on January 4, 2021
Profile portrait of Zitkala-Sa, a Native American woman, with long hair and beaded necklaces

Gertrude Simmons Bonnin (Zitkala-Ša): Advocate for the "Indian Vote"

The story of Indigenous women’s participation in the struggle for women’s suffrage is highly complex, and Zitkala-Ša’s story provides an illuminating example.
by Cathleen D. Cahill via National Park Service on December 14, 2020

Republicans Rediscover the Dangers of Selling Bunk to Their Constituents

Cynical public speech aimed at winning political power has consequences.
by Rachel Shelden via The Atlantic on November 25, 2020

The Douglass Republic

How today's protests are struggling to reclaim the vision of the great abolitionist leader.
by Jabari Asim via The New Republic on August 14, 2020
Bella Abzug with a group of women with strike signs.

'In a Perfectly Just Republic,' Bella Abzug – Born a Century Ago – Would Have Been President

Before presidential candidate Hillary Clinton, before Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi, there was Congresswoman and firebrand Bella Abzug.
by Pamela S. Nadell via The Conversation on July 21, 2020
Freedmen's Memorial

Yes, the Freedmen’s Memorial Uses Racist Imagery. But Don’t Tear It Down.

Keep in mind what it meant to the people who created it.
by David W. Blight via Washington Post on June 25, 2020
Malcom X holding up a crime scene photo of Ronald Stokes's murder.

The Death That Galvanized Malcolm X Against Police Brutality

Decades before protests against mass incarceration galvanized the black freedom struggle, Malcolm indicted the entire justice system as racist.
by Peniel E. Joseph via Literary Hub on June 23, 2020
Graphic of Sojourner Truth testifying in court.

The Electrifying Speeches of Sojourner Truth

Daina Ramey Berry details the life of the outspoken activist Sojourner Truth and her legendary speaking tour.
via TED on April 28, 2020

A Revolution of Values

Martin Luther King Jr. proposed a fix for America’s poisoned soul: ending the Vietnam War.
by Peniel E. Joseph via Lapham’s Quarterly on April 6, 2020
Photo of Frederick Douglass

Frederick Douglass: The Most Photographed American of the 19th Century

Be Woke presents Black History in two minutes (or so).
via YouTube on April 3, 2020
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How Oscar Speeches Became So Political

Oscar night has become a platform for stars to pitch political causes.
via Retro Report on February 5, 2020

Ike's Military-Industrial Complex, Six Decades Later

As Eisenhower predicted, there is no balance left, as U.S. policy is reduced to who we threaten, bomb, or occupy next.
by James P. Pinkerton via The American Conservative on January 15, 2020

How America Became “A City Upon a Hill”

The rise and fall of Perry Miller.
by Abram C. Van Engen via Humanities on January 2, 2020

When ‘A Time for Choosing’ Became the Time for Reagan

A political neophyte delivered a speech from note cards — and made history.
by Karl Rove via National Review on November 14, 2019

Frederick Douglass’s Vision for a Reborn America

In the immediate aftermath of the Civil War, he dreamed of a pluralist utopia.
by David W. Blight via The Atlantic on November 9, 2019
Close-up of Spiro T. Agnew as he points his finger from podium.

He Was Trump Before Trump: VP Spiro Agnew Attacked the News Media 50 Years Ago

When Vice President Spiro Agnew gave a speech in 1969 bashing the press, he fired some of the first shots in a culture war that persists to this day.
by Thomas Alan Schwartz via The Conversation on November 8, 2019
Photograph of Julian Bond holding one of his children.

Julian Bond Papers Project

A new digital archive from UVA Carter G. Woodson Institute and Center for Digital Editing explores the late Civil Rights leader’s life, legacy, and writings.
by Deborah McDowell, Laura Baker, James Perla via Carter G. Woodson Institute on September 25, 2019

Back When American Fascism Was Bad

On the cancelling of Charles Lindbergh.
by Ed Burmila via The Baffler on July 10, 2019
Scene of Martin Luther King assassination, with people around King pointing to where the gunfire came from.

The Day Martin Luther King Jr. Died

In the first episode of ‘Voices of the Movement,’ King's associates recount their memories of April 4, 1968.
by Jonathan Capehart via Washington Post on April 4, 2019
1890 painting of Pearl Harbor

Pearl Harbor Was Not the Worst Thing to Happen to the U.S. on December 7, 1941

On the erasure of American "territories" from US history.
by Daniel Immerwahr via Literary Hub on February 20, 2019

What Presidential Announcements Reveal About the Candidates

The speeches present the country’s condition as a puzzle that’s missing one piece, which the candidate can supply.
by John Dickerson via The Atlantic on February 18, 2019
Two men and a boy in GAR uniforms

The Grave and the Gay: The Civil War on the Gilded Age Lecture Circuit

In the years after the Civil War, lecturers like E. L. Allen regaled audiences with heartwarming and dramatic tales of battle.
by James Marten via Muster on December 28, 2018
Chart of Democratic and Republican women in Congress from 1959 to 2019.

We Mapped Out the Road to Gender Parity in the House of Representatives

Exploring the last 100 years of women in politics through data.
by Durand D'souza via The Pudding on July 10, 2018

What Does It Mean to Give David Petraeus the Floor?

Some historians worry that giving the former general an invitation to keynote means giving him a pulpit.
by Gunar Olsen via The Nation on July 5, 2018
Pat Buchanan surrounded by balloons at a campaign rally.

Revisiting a Transformational Speech: The Culture War Scorecard

Social conservatives won some and lost some since Pat laid down the marker.
by Michael Barone via The American Conservative on May 30, 2018

How Cosby's 'Pound Cake' Speech Helped Lead to His Downfall

His moralizing accelerated the cultural backlash against him and provided evidence that would be used against him at trial.
by Adam Serwer via The Atlantic on April 26, 2018
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