W.E.B. Du Bois

The two men met at Appomattox. The loser would become a role model, the victor an embarrassment.

How the fight to ban "The Birth of a Nation" shaped the nascent civil rights movement.

David Brion Davis’s philosophical history.

The Civil Rights movement ignored one very important, very difficult question. It’s time to answer it.

W.E.B. Du Bois on the beauty of sorrow songs.

At the Met, "Superfine: Tailoring Black Style" shows how clothing became a way for Black men to assert presence and push back against control.

Under the Trump administration's book police, Jackie Robinson’s life and actions are considered dangerous memories.

Since Trump took office, the park service — charged with preserving American history — has changed how it describes key moments from slavery to Jim Crow.

The history of ivory-topped piano keys and the invisible human suffering caused by our cultural commodities.

Who decides how history gets written?

A historian explores his own family's history to understand the African-American community’s internal pigmentocracy and the absurdity of racial binaries.

Can the racialist and eugenicist roots of statistics can be cordoned off from “proper” science?

After February 28, 1967, the main reason to go was to get a job.

Her long-unpublished novel was the culmination of a years-long fascination. What does it reveal about her fraught views on civil rights?

“The world didn’t give It, but the world can’t take It away.”

On the literary and cinematic legacy of white supremacy in the United States.

Can language unify the people?

The surprising influence of premillennial eschatology on American culture.

It’s important to understand why some workers might be motivated to weather scorn, rejection and even violence from their peers.

Vito Marcantonio fought racial, social, and economic injustices, promoting cross-cultural solidarity and progressive ideals amid McCarthyism and segregation.