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An Unreconstructed Nation: On Henry Louis Gates Jr.’s “Stony the Road”

A new history of Reconstruction traces the roots of American “respectability” politics through artwork.

by Robert D. Bland via Los Angeles Review of Books on May 10, 2019

Hillary Clinton speaking about early childhood development.

The Mismeasure of Minds

25 years later, The Bell Curve’s analysis of race and intelligence refuses to die.

by Michael E. Staub via Boston Review on May 8, 2019

Necessary to the Security of a Free State

On the history of the second amendment, white militias, and border vigilantism.

by Angelo Guisado via Current Affairs on May 8, 2019

Hate in the Air

Newly released recordings of 'Citizens’ Council Radio Forum' show white supremacy’s evolution through the civil rights era.

by Rebecca Onion via Slate on April 23, 2019

Enslaved people being baptized.

'Christian Slavery: Conversion and Race in the Protestant Atlantic World'

A Q&A with author Katharine Gerbner about "Protestant Supremacy."

by Katharine Gerbner, Casey Schmitt via The Junto on April 19, 2019

The Myth of the American Frontier

Greg Grandin’s new book charts the past and present of American expansionism and its high human costs.

by Jedediah Britton-Purdy via The Nation on April 1, 2019

How the South Won the Civil War

During Reconstruction, true citizenship finally seemed in reach for black Americans. Then their dreams were dismantled.

by Adam Gopnik via The New Yorker on April 1, 2019

The Keeper of the Secret

After decades of silence, one man pursues accountability, apologies and the meaning of racial reconciliation.

by Stephanie McCrummen via Washington Post on March 30, 2019

Creationism, Noah’s Flood, and Race

For centuries, literalist interpretations of the Book of Genesis have fueled scientific racism and white supremacy.

by Paul Braterman via 3 Quarks Daily on March 25, 2019

How New York’s New Monument Whitewashes the Women’s Rights Movement

It offers a narrow vision of the activists who fought for equality.

by Martha S. Jones via Made By History on March 22, 2019

It's Time to Stop Talking About a 'National Divorce'

The right's eagerness for a "peaceful separation" of the nation echoes pieces of race war fiction.

by Christian Vanderbrouk via The Bulwark on March 21, 2019

White Nationalism’s Deep American Roots

A long-overdue excavation of the book that Hitler called his “bible,” and the man who wrote it.

by Adam Serwer via The Atlantic on March 14, 2019

The Ominous History Surrounding President Trump’s Fourth of July Rally

White nationalists have long used the holiday to advance their dreams of a white country.

by Christopher F. Petrella via Made By History on February 28, 2019

The Mistress's Tools

White women and the economy of slavery.

by Lynne Feeley via The Nation on February 26, 2019

When Nazis Took Manhattan

In 1939, 20,000 American Nazis rallied in New York. It was billed as a "Pro-American" rally, but championed Hitler and fascism.

by Nellie Gilles, Sarah Kate Kramer, Joe Richman via Radio Diaries on February 20, 2019

Yes, Politicians Wore Blackface. It Used to be All-American ‘Fun.’

Minstrel shows were once so mainstream that even presidents watched them.

by Rhae Lynn Barnes via Washington Post on February 8, 2019

Poster for minstrelsy cake walk

The Faces of Racism

A history of blackface and minstrelsy in American culture.

via BackStory on February 8, 2019

The Supreme Court Case That Enshrined White Supremacy in Law

How Plessy v. Ferguson shaped the history of racial discrimination in America.

by Louis Menand via The New Yorker on February 4, 2019

The Troubling History Behind Ralph Northam’s Blackface Klan Photo

How blackface shaped Virginia politics and culture for more than a century.

by Rhae Lynn Barnes via Made By History on February 2, 2019

America’s Original Sin

Slavery and the legacy of white supremacy.

by Annette Gordon-Reed via Foreign Affairs on December 20, 2018

Southern Baptist Convention’s Flagship Seminary Details Its Racist, Slave-Owning Past

"We are living in an age of historical reckoning," said Southern Baptist leader R. Albert Mohler Jr.

by Marisa Iati via Washington Post on December 12, 2018

The Racist Politics of the English Language

How we went from “racist” to “racially tinged.”

by Lawrence B. Glickman via Boston Review on November 20, 2018

African-American Veterans Hoped Their Service in WWI Would Secure Their Rights at Home. It Didn't.

Black people emerged from the war bloodied and scarred. Still, the war marked a turning point in their struggles for freedom.

by Chad Williams via TIME on November 12, 2018

An Obituary for Old Orange County, Dead at Age 129

Once reliably red, the official cause of O.C.’s passing is a case of the blue flu.

by Gustavo Arellano via Los Angeles Times on November 7, 2018

Voters casting ballots in 2008.

The United States Isn’t a Democracy — And Was Never Intended to Be

Voting has always been restricted to empower a minority.

by Michael Todd Landis via Made By History on November 6, 2018

Four Ku Klux Klan members wearing robes and hoods.

The Ku Klux Klan and America’s First "Fake News" Crisis

When the white-supremacist group terrorized the South during Reconstruction, many people denied that it even existed.

by Matt Ford via The New Republic on October 30, 2018

Historical marker in Memphis telling the history of Nathan Bedford Forrest

Naming the Enslaved, Reconciling the Past in Memphis

The roll call for the names of 74 African Americans sold into slavery by Nathan Bedford Forrest in Memphis was solemn.

by Hannah Baldwin via Southern Poverty Law Center on October 19, 2018

Newspaper cartoon of Ku Klux Klan

The Deadliest Massacre in Reconstruction-Era Louisiana Happened 150 Years Ago

In September 1868, Southern white Democrats hunted down around 200 African-Americans in an effort to suppress voter turnout.

by Lorraine Boissoneault via Smithsonian on September 28, 2018

Bringing a Dark Chapter to Light: Maryland Confronts Its Lynching Legacy

While lynching is most closely associated with former Confederate states, hundreds were committed elsewhere in the country.

by Jonathan M. Pitts via Baltimore Sun on September 25, 2018

Martin Luther King Jr. and Coretta Scott King.

“A More Beautiful and Terrible History” Corrects the Fables Told of the Civil Rights Movement

A new book bursts the bubble on what we’ve learned about the Civil Rights era to show a larger movement with layers.

by Jeanne Theoharis, Jeneé Darden via Los Angeles Review of Books on September 16, 2018

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