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Rudy Giuliani and a graphic that says "multiple pathways to victory."

Disenfranchisement: An American Tradition

Invoking the specter of voter fraud to undermine democratic participation is a tactic as old as the United States itself.
by Julilly Kohler-Hausmann via Dissent on January 10, 2021
Man walks through the U.S. Capitol holding a confederate flag on Jan 6, 2021.
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1871 Provides A Road Map for Addressing the Pro-Trump Attempted Insurrection

Commitment to racial justice, not conciliation, is needed to save democracy.
by Megan Kate Nelson via Made By History on January 8, 2021
Mount Rushmore.

The Battle for the Black Hills

Nick Tilsen was arrested for protesting President Trump at Mount Rushmore. Now, his legal troubles are part of a legacy.
by Nick Estes via High Country News on January 1, 2021

Sadie Alexander Was a Trailblazing Economist and Activist

This op-ed celebrates the life and legacy of economist, attorney, and civil rights advocate Sadie Tanner Mossell Alexander.
by Anna Gifty Opoku-Agyeman via Teen Vogue on January 1, 2021
Formal daguerreotype photograph of an African American corporal, holding a Colt model 1849 pocket revolver.

From Negro Militias To Black Armament

Guns have always loomed large in Black people's lives — going all the way back to the days of colonial slavery, explains reporter Alain Stephens from The Trace.
by Natalie Escobar, Gene Demby, Alain Stephens via NPR on December 22, 2020
An illustration of boats in the water.

Capitalism, Slavery, and Economic White Supremacy

On the racial wealth gap.
by Calvin Schermerhorn via CARICOM on December 21, 2020
Headshot of William Faulkner

‘A Land Where the Dead Past Walks’

Faulkner’s chroniclers have to reconcile the novelist’s often repellent political positions with the extraordinary meditations on race, violence, and cruelty in his fiction.
by Brenda Wineapple via New York Review of Books on December 20, 2020
Statue of Shakespeare, Central Park, New York City.

Shakespeare’s Contentious Conversation With America

James Shapiro’s recent book looks at why Shakespeare has been a mainstay of the cultural and political conflicts of the country since its founding.
by Alisa Solomon via The Nation on December 17, 2020
Political cartoon depicting the menace of monopolies and trusts (1899)

Degeneration Nation

How a Gilded Age best seller shaped American race discourse.
by Adam Morris via Lapham’s Quarterly on December 14, 2020
Monument of a fist holding a broken shackle

Atlantic Slavery: An Eternal War

Julia Gaffield reviews two books that discuss the transatlantic slave trade.
by Julia Gaffield via Public Books on November 30, 2020
Photograph of Ida B. Wells

Crusader for Justice

Ida B. Wells reported on lynching in the South, risking her own safety.
by Deborah Gardner, Amari Pollard, Emily Sutton via Southern Cultures on November 5, 2020
Photo of people protesting and demanding all votes are counted the day after Election Day at McPherson Square, near the White House.
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President Trump’s False Claims About Election Fraud Are Dangerous

Trump’s campaign to delegitimize the vote has a familiar ring. It evokes an egregious example of election fraud in the 1890s.
by Sid Bedingfield via Made By History on November 5, 2020
Jill Lepore and the cover of her Book "If Then: How the Simulmatics Corporation Invented the Future"

“We Don’t Want the Program”: On How Tech Can’t Fix Democracy

“Start-ups: they need philosophers, political theorists, historians, poets. Critics.”
by Jill Lepore, Danah Boyd via Public Books on November 2, 2020

How Eugenics Shaped Statistics

Exposing the damned lies of three science pioneers.
by Aubrey Clayton via Nautilus on October 28, 2020

What Tecumseh Fought For

Pursuing a Native alliance powerful enough to resist the American invaders, the Shawnee leader and his prophet brother envisioned a new and better Indian world.
by Philip J. Deloria via The New Yorker on October 26, 2020

Trump's Touting of 'Racehorse Theory' Tied to Eugenics and Nazis Alarms Jewish Leaders

President Trump has alarmed Jewish leaders by appearing to endorse 'racehorse theory' — used by eugenicists and Nazis last century.
by Seema Mehta via Los Angeles Times on October 5, 2020
Donald Trump and Joe Biden behind podiums during the first presidential debate of 2020
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President Trump Gets the Suburbs All Wrong

His conception of what appeals to suburban voters is frozen in the past.
by Michelle M. Nickerson via Made By History on October 1, 2020
A collage featuring early feminists.

Pointing a Way Forward

The history of suffrage in the South—indeed, the nation—is messy and fraught, and more contentious than is typically remembered.
by Jessica Wilkerson via Southern Cultures on October 1, 2020
Gettysburg Battlefield, with monuments visible in the distance

We Need to Talk About Confederate Statues on U.S. Public Lands

At places like the Gettysburg battlefield and Arlington National Cemetery, there's a new, escalating conflict over monuments that honor the Lost Cause.
by Alex Heard via Outside on September 28, 2020
An old school auditorium

L’Ouverture High School: Race, Place, and Memory in Oklahoma

A state with an often-overlooked history of enslavement demonstrates the lasting significance and geographic reach of the Haitian Revolution.
by Erica Johnson Edwards via Age of Revolutions on September 28, 2020
Photograph of people lining up to hear arguments in Brown v. Board of Education.

The Case for Ending the Supreme Court as We Know It

The Supreme Court, the federal branch with the least public accountability, has historically sided with tradition over more expansive human rights visions.
by Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor via The New Yorker on September 25, 2020
Profile of man superimposed on granite slab

Charlotte's Monument to a Jewish Confederate Was Hated Even Before It Was Built

For more than seven decades, the North Carolina memorial has courted controversy in unexpected forms.
by Andrea Cooper via Smithsonian on September 23, 2020
Texas Gov. Greg Abbott speaks during a news conference in Austin
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Though Often Mythologized, the Texas Rangers Have an Ugly History of Brutality

Teaching accurate history about white supremacy may be painful, but it's essential.
by Jonathan S. Jones via Made By History on September 21, 2020

Eric Williams' Foundational Work on Slavery, Industry, and Wealth

Reflecting on "Capitalism and Slavery" (1944), a work that continues to influence scholarship today.
by Katie Donington via Black Perspectives on September 21, 2020
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Migrant Detention Centers Have a Long History of Medical Neglect and Abuse

The link between medical abuse, racism and immigration runs deep.
by Jessica Ordaz via Made By History on September 18, 2020
Cartoon that shows a man struggling to shake a woman's hand because of her wide skirt.

Lampooning Political Women

For as long as women have battled for equitable political representation in America, those battles have been defined by images.
by Allison K. Lange via Humanities New York on September 15, 2020
Still from "Apocolypse Now"

How a Wagner Opera Defined the Sound of Hollywood Blockbusters

“Ride of the Valkyries” has been featured in hundreds of films, including 'The Birth of a Nation,' 'Jarhead,' and most famously, Apocalypse Now.'
by Alex Ross via The New Yorker on September 15, 2020
Wabanaki people paddling canoes near bridge

The Myth of Native American Extinction Harms Everyone

Cluelessness about Native people is rampant in New England, which romanticizes its Colonial heritage.
by Mali Obomsawin via Boston Globe Magazine on September 15, 2020
Rutherford B. Hayes and Donald Trump.
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The Election From Our Past That Blares a Warning for 2020

A contested presidential election in 1876 produced a devastating compromise.
by Richard Kreitner via Made By History on September 11, 2020
Painting of white men taking enslaved Africans off boat on a beach.

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
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