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Ohio Has Always Had Confederate Apologists
In June, Ohio legislators refused to ban confederate memorabilia from county fairs. The state has long had a complicated relationship with the Confederacy.
by
Eric Michael Rhodes
via
Belt Magazine
on
July 6, 2020
Insurrection in the Eye of the Beholder
The Insurrection Act of 1807, which Trump has threatened to invoke, is the linchpin of several iconic events in African American history.
by
Hawa Allan
via
The Baffler
on
June 2, 2020
White Supremacy in the Academy: The 1913 Meeting of the American Historical Association
The historical interpretations crafted by the men of the Dunning School might now be largely discredited and discarded. But their legacies remain.
by
Bradley D. Proctor
via
The Activist History Review
on
December 6, 2019
This Day in Labor History: December 1, 1868
On folk hero John Henry.
by
Erik Loomis
via
Twitter
on
December 1, 2019
An Unfinished Revolution
A new three-part PBS documentary explores the failure of Reconstruction and the Redemption of the South.
by
James Oakes
via
New York Review of Books
on
November 21, 2019
Talking Drums
On the relationship between African American music traditions and one of the most infamous slave revolts, the Stono Rebellion, in colonial South Carolina.
by
John Jeremiah Sullivan
via
Oxford American
on
November 19, 2019
Race, History, and Memories of a Virginia Girlhood
A historian looks back at the legacy of slavery and Jim Crow in her home state.
by
Drew Gilpin Faust
via
The Atlantic
on
July 18, 2019
How the South Won the Civil War
During Reconstruction, true citizenship finally seemed in reach for black Americans. Then their dreams were dismantled.
by
Adam Gopnik
via
The New Yorker
on
April 1, 2019
Making Good on the Broken Promise of Reparations
Ignoring the moral imperative of repairing slavery's wounds because it might be “divisive” reinforces a myth of white innocence.
by
Katherine Franke
via
New York Review of Books
on
March 18, 2019
A Lost and Found Portrait Photographer
What remains of Hugh Magnum's work documents how much was shared in common by people who racist laws treated as separate.
by
Sarah Blackwood
via
The New Yorker
on
February 14, 2019
Stop Calling it ‘The Great Migration’
For people of color watching over their shoulder, the fear of police interference harkens back to a historical moment with a much-too-benign label.
by
Brentin Mock
via
CityLab
on
July 4, 2018
The Persistence of Whitewashing
How can Americans have such different memories of slavery?
by
Jason Silverstein
via
The New Republic
on
May 31, 2018
The Compensated Emancipation Act of 1862
While a far cry from full emancipation, it was an important step towards the abolition of slavery.
by
Jessica Parr
via
We're History
on
April 16, 2018
We Don’t Need a TV Show About the Confederacy Winning. In Many Ways, it Did.
HBO's “Confederate” assumes America is much further from its slaveholding past than it really is.
by
Bree Newsome
via
Washington Post
on
August 2, 2017
A Presumption of Guilt
Capital punishment and the legacy of terror lynching in the American South.
by
Bryan Stevenson
via
New York Review of Books
on
July 13, 2017
The Political Cartoon That Explains the Battle Over Reconstruction
Take a deep dive into this drawing by famed illustrator Thomas Nast.
by
Lorraine Boissoneault
via
Smithsonian
on
March 2, 2017
Lynching in America: Targeting Black Veterans
Black veterans were once targeted for racialized violence because of the equality with whites that their military service implied.
via
Equal Justice Initiative
on
November 11, 2016
A Historian’s Revealing Research on Race and Gun Laws
The notion that gun control has racist origins is popular in gun rights circles. Here's what's wrong with the claim.
by
Saul Cornell
,
Mike Spies
via
The Trace
on
November 24, 2015
Killing Reconstruction
During Reconstruction, elites used racist appeals to silence calls for redistribution and worker empowerment.
by
Heather Cox Richardson
via
Jacobin
on
August 19, 2015
Exodusters
Migration further west began almost immediately after Reconstruction ended, as Black Americans initiated the "Great Exodus" outside the South toward Kansas.
by
Todd Arrington
via
National Park Service
on
April 10, 2015
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