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  • Demonstrators at the March on Washington in 1963.

    A Dark, Untold Story About the March on Washington Has Just Been Revealed

    Police from as far away as Alabama were watching.
    by Joshua Clark Davis via Slate on August 28, 2023
  • A police dog attacks 15-year-old Walter Gadsden during a civil rights demonstration in Birmingham, May 3, 1963.

    Birmingham’s Use of Dogs on Civil Rights Protesters Shocked Liberal Onlookers

    But the backstory was all-American.
    by Joshua Clark Davis via Slate on May 16, 2023
  • Activist Businesses: The New Left’s Surprising Critique of Postwar Consumer Culture

    Activists established politically informed shops to offer alternatives to the consumer culture of chain stores, mass production, and multinational corporations.
    by Joshua Clark Davis via Process: A Blog for American History on May 2, 2023
  • Catalog, in red and black, for Drum & Spear Bookstore, depicting silhouettes of three people with afro hairstyles.

    The FBI's War on Black-Owned Bookstores

    At the height of the Black Power movement, the Bureau focused on the unlikeliest of public enemies: black independent booksellers.
    by Joshua Clark Davis via The Atlantic on February 19, 2018
  • Frederick Douglass, Real Estate Developer

    Frederick Douglas had another, lesser known, impact on Baltimore.
    by Joshua Clark Davis via Black Perspectives on June 19, 2017

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Making History Go Viral

Historians used the Twitter thread to add context and accuracy to the news cycle in 2018. Here’s how they did it.
by Rebecca Onion via Slate on December 11, 2018

The Long Summer of Love

Historians get hip to the lasting influences of ’60s counterculture
by Zoe Corbyn via The Chronicle of Higher Education on September 3, 2017
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