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Jamelle Bouie

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The Enlightenment’s Dark Side

How the Enlightenment created modern race thinking, and why we should confront it.

by Jamelle Bouie via Slate on June 5, 2018
The Pain We Still Need to Feel

The new lynching memorial confronts the racial terrorism that corrupted America—and still does.

by Jamelle Bouie via Slate on May 1, 2018
Introducing Reconstruction

The new Slate Academy finds the seeds of our present politics in the period after the Civil War.

by Jamelle Bouie, Rebecca Onion via Slate on October 27, 2017
America’s Painful, Historic Contempt for Black Soldiers

Donald Trump writes the latest chapter in a long history.

by Jamelle Bouie via Slate on October 24, 2017
Why Obama Voters Defected

New findings explain how Trump won them over—and why he probably wouldn’t next time.

by Jamelle Bouie via Slate on June 20, 2017
Donald Trump Sees Himself in Andrew Jackson. They Deserve Each Other.

The president deserves the Jackson legacy, but not for the reasons he'd like.

by Jamelle Bouie via Slate on March 15, 2017
Bernie Sanders Is Right That Reparations Would Be Divisive

But the Vermont senator’s political revolution depends on white America, too.

by Jamelle Bouie via Slate on January 21, 2016
When People Flee to America’s Shores

We are a nation of immigrants and refugees. Yet we always fear who is coming next.

by Jamelle Bouie via Slate on November 17, 2015
Slavery Myths Debunked

The Irish were slaves too; slaves had it better than factory workvers; black people fought for the Confederacy; and so on.

by Jamelle Bouie, Rebecca Onion via Slate on September 29, 2015
This Haunting Animation Maps the Journeys of 15,790 Slave Ships in Two Minutes

315 years. 20,528 voyages. Millions of lives.

by Jamelle Bouie, Andrew Kahn via Slate on June 25, 2015
Our Commemoration of the Civil War’s End Celebrates a Myth

The emancipation of black Americans has been written out of our celebration of the Civil War's end.

by Jamelle Bouie via Slate on April 14, 2015
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We Shouldn’t Stop Talking About Justice John Marshall Harlan

Today, historical figures are held in deep suspicion, but refusing to acknowledge the heroes of the past diminishes our own sense of what is possible.

by Peter S. Canellos via Politico Magazine on July 11, 2023

A crowd at a Trump rally, holding signs and flags endorsing him, as well as a Confederate flag.

Trump Is Not an Aberration

America’s path has been contested since its founding, and realizing the promise of liberty required generations of struggle.

by Jeffrey C. Isaac via New Lines on November 12, 2024

White pillars broken in pieces, forming an X.

The Right Side of History

How should historians respond to the urgency of this current political moment?

by Emma Green via The New Yorker on March 7, 2023

A hand demonstrates a push lever system in voting booth, and students wait in line to vote in a mock election held at Morgan State University in Baltimore

The Forgotten First Voting Rights Act

How the defeat of the 1890 Lodge bill presaged today’s age of ballot-driven backlash.

by Ed Burmila via The Forum on October 17, 2022

In the preface to a new book version of the 1619 Project, Nikole Hannah-Jones, a reporter and the leading force behind the endeavor, recalls that it began as a “simple pitch.”

The 1619 Project and the Demands of Public History

The ambitious Times endeavor reveals the difficulties that greet a journalistic project when it aspires to shift a founding narrative of the past.

by Lauren Michele Jackson via The New Yorker on December 8, 2021

Political cartoon of the U.S Capitol

The Liberals Who Weakened Trust in Government

How public interest groups inadvertently aided the right’s ascendency.

by Kim Phillips-Fein via The New Republic on August 2, 2021

A Brief History of the History Wars

Conservative uproar over the 1619 Project is just the most recent clash in a battle over how we should understand America’s past.

by Rebecca Onion via Slate on August 20, 2019

The Weimar Analogy

Comparing Trump's America to fascist Germany only fuels elites' antidemocratic fantasies.

by Daniel Bessner, Udi Greenberg via Jacobin on December 17, 2016

Donald Trump Isn’t a Fascist; He’s a Media-Savvy Know-Nothing

Donald Trump combines the instincts of a reality-TV star with the politics of a hundred-and-seventy-year-old nativist movement.

by John Cassidy via The New Yorker on December 28, 2015

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