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.

A Black socialist magazine urges solidarity and action in 1919.

Lionel Trilling defends humanism amid crisis culture, warning that obsessing over evil can erode the self and our capacity for moral and creative agency.

Six decades of civil-rights efforts haven’t budged the racial wealth gap, and the usual prescriptions—including reparations—offer no lasting solutions.

Correspondence about writing, travel, and friendship, from 1926 through 1929.

The unique brutality of the US capitalist class bred a labor movement that has often limited itself to being a private insurance provider.

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Her long-unpublished novel was the culmination of a years-long fascination.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.”