W.E.B. Du Bois

A brief scholarly overview to understand the contours of white backlashes, their historical impact, and the ways they shape the world we inherit.

The temperance movement wasn’t an example of American exceptionalism; it was a globe-spanning network of activists and politicians against economic exploitation.

The charges, while provocative, offer a framework to reckon with systemic racial injustice — past and present.

It erases the fact that, for the first 70 years of its existence, the US was roiled by intense, escalating conflict over slavery – a conflict only resolved by civil war.

As the GOP undermines Black political rights in the present, some right-wing intellectuals are rationalizing Black disenfranchisement in the past.

“What if we identified the politics of municipal debt as circumscribing political horizons and futures?”

Are the truths in the Declaration of Independence really self-evident?

Each time political minorities advocate for and achieve greater equality, conservatives rebel, trying to force a reinstatement of the status quo.

You can work around some of the holes this lack of access creates, but it takes years.

In his new book, "The Crooked Path to Abolition," James Oakes argues that the Constitution was an antislavery document.

Reflections on Richard Wright’s recently published novel, "The Man Who Lived Underground."

Exploring the history of U.S. empire through the story of Fort Huachuca – the “Guardian of the Frontier.”

As African Americans achieved economic success in Atlanta in the early 1900s, the city simmered with racial strife that was further spread by yellow journalism.

The career and legacy of a Black critic who argued for the elevation of Black performance.

Confronting the violence of U.S. policing requires an international perspective.

On Pete Souza’s Obama.

A favorite icon of critical race theory proponents doesn’t say what they want him to say.

The KKK violently resisted the revolutionary gains of the Civil War and Reconstruction, and sought to keep the black masses toiling in submission.

Seventy years after the civil preparedness film Duck and Cover, it's long past time to reckon with the way white supremacy shaped U.S. nuclear defense efforts.

On Juneteenth, we should remember both the struggle against chattel slavery and the struggle for radical freedom during Reconstruction.