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When Americans Thought Hair Was a Window Into the Soul

Christian, criminal or cowardly? People once thought your hair could hold the answer.

by Sarah Gold McBride via The Conversation on April 20, 2016

Members of the 1976 United States Supreme Court, led by Chief Justice Warren Burger, center.

It’s Been 40 Years Since the Supreme Court Tried to Fix the Death Penalty— Here’s How It Failed

A close look at the grand compromise of 1976.

by Evan Mandery via The Marshall Project on March 30, 2016

Woman who looks unhappy.

Unwanted Sterilization and Eugenics Programs in the United States

A shameful part of America’s history.

by Lisa Ko via PBS NewsHour on January 29, 2016

What Happens When Children's Books Fail to Confront the Complexity of Slavery

We need literature that wrestles with the evils of slavery while confronting its complexity – especially when it’s written for children

by Michael W. Twitty via The Guardian on January 19, 2016

Slave revolt in Haiti.

The History of the United States’ First Refugee Crisis

Fleeing the Haitian revolution, whites and free blacks were viewed with suspicion by American slaveholders, including Thomas Jefferson.

by Nicholas Foreman via Smithsonian on January 5, 2016

Why Do So Many Americans Think They Have Cherokee Blood?

The history of a myth.

by Gregory D. Smithers via Slate on October 1, 2015

What This Cruel War Was Over

The meaning of the Confederate flag is best discerned in the words of those who bore it.

by Ta-Nehisi Coates via The Atlantic on June 22, 2015

Portrait of stern looking John Winthrop.

Father’s Property and Child Custody in the Colonial Era

The rights and responsibilities of 17th-century fatherhood in England's North American colonies.

by Mary Ann Mason via Berkeley Law (University Of California) on April 11, 2015

General Lee’s Sword

A graphic retelling of Robert E. Lee surrender at Appomattox Court House.

by Ari Kelman, Jonathan Fetter-Vorm via Slate on April 9, 2015

John Brown: The First American to Hang for Treason

The militant abolitionist's execution set a precedent for armed resistance against the federal government with implications for those who had condemned him.

by Heather Cox Richardson via We're History on December 2, 2014

The Ledger

In researching his family's past, the author learns of his ancestors' efforts to thrive despite the confines of racial oppression.

by Lawrence Jackson via n+1 on June 14, 2012

Reconstruction of Mt. Malady hospital at Henricus Historical Park, Virginia.

Health Care in the New World

Reporter Catherine Moore visits the first hospital in the New World and finds out why the “public plan” in the Virginia colony may have had its drawbacks.

via BackStory on October 1, 2009

Alexander Hamilton.

Inventing Alexander Hamilton

The troubling embrace of the founder of American finance.

by William Hogeland via Boston Review on November 1, 2007

A North Carolinian on the Aftermath of Nat Turner’s Rebellion

A spotlight on a primary source.

via Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History on September 25, 1831

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