Kevin Waite

San Bernardino County may explore seceding from California. Many of the earliest separatists wanted to transform Southern California into a slave state.

Tens of thousands of Indigenous people labored in bondage across the western United States in the 1800s.

Antebellum slaveholders weren't content with an economic and social system based on trafficking in human flesh in the South alone.

The far-right protestors in Huntington Beach aren’t as novel as they seem.

Los Angeles is finding success at reshaping its commemorative landscape.

One of the largest mass lynchings in the United States targeted Chinese immigrants in Los Angeles.

Whereas southern Klansmen assaulted Black Americans and their white allies, western vigilantes targeted those they deemed a greater threat: Chinese immigrants.

San Bernardino, California's early success rested on a pair of seemingly incongruous forces: Mormonism and slavery.

Why was the Golden State once chock-full of memorials to the Southern rebels?

Why Confederacy supporters erased the legacy of one its most accomplished soldiers.

For white southerners, honor had little to do with justice.