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It was intended to be a tool of political power, sending a message against Black voting and serving as a gathering point for the Ku Klux Klan.

For the white-robed, playing a black team was a gift-wrapped photo op, a chance to show that the Klan was part of the local community.

The holiday is a reminder of the Civil War's larger meaning, the unfulfilled promise of Reconstruction, and the reinforcement of democratic values.

New evidence shows what the 30-foot-tall Confederate memorial was actually meant to commemorate.  

An Illinois high school teacher explains how his state complicates the binary of “free states” and “slave states.”

Contrary to the image of the kneeling slave, Black abolitionists did not wait passively for the "Day of Jubilee." They led the charge.

The New Deal's legacies of infrastructure and economic development, and entrenching structural racism, reveal the potential and mistakes to avoid for the Green New Deal.

A landslide that exposed racial inequalities embedded in Appalachian communities.

Hispanic women and the fight for the 19th Amendment in New Mexico.

Real-estate developers used the statues to draw white buyers to a neighborhood where houses couldn't be sold “to any person of African descent.”

The murders in Duluth offered yet another example that the North was no exception when it came to anti-black violence.

A graphic essay about the brutal toll taken by the epidemic on indigenous communities in Alaska.

Suburbs are getting more diverse, but that doesn't mean they’re woke.

How Detroit cops and courts steer segregation and drive incarceration.

A Review of "Design for the Crowd: Patriotism and Protest in Union Square."

U.S. imperialism and private enterprise in the region have created ecological peril.

Rethinking our historical monuments.

Trump echoed a former Miami police chief’s anti-black words and animus.

The lessons of the 1992 Los Angeles uprising and its aftermath still resonate.

From the Black Panthers to the Communist Party, radical Los Angeles in the ’60s was a seething cauldron of unrest, united by the brutal repression of the LAPD.

A historical Black burial ground, reclaimed.

A look into the largely unexplored history of black town-building.

Stranger danger and the specter of childhood.

Since the first Decoration Day, the cemetery morphed from one of many Civil War burial grounds to a unique place of honor.

In Philadelphia, authorities faced a familiar challenge: to protect public health while maintaining individuals' rights to act, speak, and assemble freely.

Revisiting the Missouri Compromise should transform how we think about white American expansion.

On the stories and landscapes the Federal Writers’ Project left unexplored.

The making of Vermont's landscape.

The ways that authorities in Richmond, Virginia, responded to the 1918 Flu offer a lens onto what – and who – was most valued by those in power there.

Due to racist policies, Black Americans are dying of COVID-19 at much higher rates than whites, and nowhere more so than in St. Louis.