W.E.B. Du Bois

For much of the twentieth century, African Americans embraced eugenics as a means of racial improvement.

Richard Spencer is a troll and an icon for white supremacists. He was also my high-school classmate.

Kente serves as more than a pop of color at college graduations.

She was an architect of the civil-rights struggle-and the women's movement. Why haven't you heard of her?

The United States wasn't filled with isolationists, and it wasn't exactly neutral before 1917.

What did Americans think of World War I before the US entered the conflict 100 years ago?

An collection of primary sources exploring the causes, duration, and aftermath of America's involvement in World War I.

The international ambitions of the US slaveholding class and the abolitionist movement that brought them down.

Cedric Robinson has a great deal to teach us about Trumpism and the significance of resistance in determining the future.

Before the Civil War, many Southern leaders hoped to expand slavery even beyond the nation's borders.

W. E. B. Du Bois may be our keenest critic of Trumpism today.

The susceptibility of black ex-soldiers to extrajudicial murder and assault has long been recognized by historians.

Black veterans were once targeted for racialized violence because of the equality with whites that their military service implied.

What if we use the history of slavery as a standpoint from which to rethink our notion of justice today?

Historian Judith Stein debunks liberal myths about racism, the New Deal, and why the Democrats moved right.

From lynching photos to Black Lives Matter – what does it mean to look at images of African Americans being murdered?

It will help black Americans to recall that they have a history that transcends victimization and exclusion.

Recovering black radicalism.

On the abolitionists, Reconstruction, and winning “freedom” from the Right.

Woodrow Wilson arrived at the White House determined to eliminate the gains African-Americans made during Reconstruction.