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It’s Time We Celebrate Ella Baker Day
Honoring Baker alongside Martin Luther King would highlight the long and patient work of building a social movement.
by
Mark Engler
via
The Nation
on
January 17, 2020
The Native American Women Who Fought Mass Sterilization
Over a six-year period in the 1970s, physicians sterilized perhaps 25% of Native American women of childbearing age.
by
Brianna Theobald
via
TIME
on
November 27, 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
partner
A New Housing Program to Fight Poverty has an Unexpected History
Some cities are trying to help poor children succeed by having their families move to middle-income, "opportunity areas" -- an idea once politically impossible.
via
Retro Report
on
October 22, 2019
Unsettling Histories of the South
Social movements that have pushed for inclusion and equality in the South have often evaded or ignored the issue of Native land and sovereignty.
by
Angela Hudson
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Southern Cultures
on
September 18, 2019
Who Was the First Black Child to Go to an Integrated School?
She was a high-schooler in Iowa more than 150 years ago.
by
Russell Ellsworth Lovell II
via
The Conversation
on
September 10, 2019
Writing Gay History
How the story itself came out.
by
Jim Downs
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Humanities
on
June 27, 2019
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Stonewall's Legacy and Kwame Anthony Appiah's Misuse of History
The New York Times should have done a better job fact-checking Appiah’s essay. Philosophy may be allegorical. History isn’t.
by
Alan J. Singer
via
HNN
on
June 23, 2019
How Cars Transformed Policing
Most communities barely had a police force and citizens shared responsibility for enforcing laws. Then the car changed everything.
by
Sarah A. Seo
via
Boston Review
on
June 3, 2019
For Some, School Integration Was More Tragedy Than Fairy Tale
Almost 60 years later, a mother regrets her decision to send her 6-year-old into a hate-filled environment.
by
Jarvis Deberry
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nola.com
on
May 29, 2019
Psychiatry, Racism, and the Birth of ‘Sesame Street’
How a black psychiatrist helped design a groundbreaking television show as a radical therapeutic tool for minority preschoolers.
by
Anne Harrington
via
UnDark
on
May 17, 2019
Does the Civil Rights Act Protect Sexual Orientation?
Fifty-five years ago, a congressman made a single addition to the Civil Rights Act of 1964 that changed everything.
by
Todd S. Purdum
via
The Atlantic
on
April 26, 2019
A Brief History of Slavery Reparation Promises
Several 2020 presidential candidates have called for reparations for slavery in the U.S.
by
John Torpey
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The Conversation
on
April 11, 2019
The Forgotten History of Feminismo Americano
Over the first half of the 20th century, the movement galvanized groups throughout the Americas who helped inaugurate what we think of today as global feminism.
by
Katherine M. Marino
via
Tropics of Meta
on
February 22, 2019
The Supreme Court Case That Enshrined White Supremacy in Law
How Plessy v. Ferguson shaped the history of racial discrimination in America.
by
Louis Menand
via
The New Yorker
on
February 4, 2019
Traveling While Black Across the Atlantic Ocean
Following in the footsteps of 20th century African Americans, Ethelene Whitmire experiences a 21st century transatlantic crossing.
by
Ethelene Whitmire
via
Longreads
on
January 3, 2019
Goodbye, Cold War
For the first time, we are living in a truly post-cold-war political environment in the United States.
by
Aziz Rana
via
n+1
on
November 30, 2018
A Love Letter to an Extinct Creature: The Liberal Republican
“The Improbable Wendell Willkie” offers a look at how American politics might have been.
by
Benjamin C. Waterhouse
via
Washington Post
on
November 21, 2018
The Dual Defeat
Hubert Humphrey and the unmaking of Cold War liberalism.
by
Michael Kazin
via
The Nation
on
October 18, 2018
On the Supreme Court, Difficult Nominations Have Led to Historical Injustices
When it comes to partisan Supreme Court nominations, history repeats itself.
by
Calvin Schermerhorn
via
The Conversation
on
September 28, 2018
Prison Abolition Syllabus 2.0
An updated prison syllabus in response to the national prison strike of 2018.
by
Dan Berger
,
Garrett Felber
,
Elizabeth Hinton
,
Anyabwile Love
,
Kali Nicole Gross
via
Black Perspectives
on
September 8, 2018
As Goes the South, So Goes the Nation
History haunts, but Alabama changes.
by
Imani Perry
via
Harper's
on
July 15, 2018
partner
How To Resist Bad Supreme Court Rulings
What Dred Scott teaches us about thwarting bad law.
by
Martha S. Jones
via
Made By History
on
July 6, 2018
1968: Year of Counter-Revolution
What haunted America was not the misty specter of revolution but the solidifying specter of reactionary backlash.
by
Todd Gitlin
via
New York Review of Books
on
May 8, 2018
partner
Can President Trump Legally Send Troops to the Border?
Critics argue the move would violate the 1878 Posse Comitatus Act. One problem: There is no 1878 Posse Comitatus Act.
by
Kevin Adams
via
Made By History
on
April 17, 2018
A Brief History of Surveillance in America
With wiretapping in the headlines and smart speakers in millions of homes, a look back to the early days of eavesdropping.
by
Brian Hochman
,
April White
via
Smithsonian
on
March 22, 2018
How Charles Koch Is Helping Neo-Confederates Teach College Students
The Koch Foundation is often praised for its higher-ed funding, but the money is going to some radical professors.
by
Alex Kotch
via
The Nation
on
March 21, 2018
'Corporations Are People' Is Built on an Incredible 19th-Century Lie
How a farcical series of events in the 1880s produced an enduring and controversial legal precedent.
by
Adam Winkler
via
The Atlantic
on
March 5, 2018
Beginnings of the American Red Cross
A primary source set and teaching guide created by educators.
by
Lucy Santos Green
via
Digital Public Library of America
on
February 22, 2018
'They Were Assumed to Be Puppets of Martin Luther King Jr.'
For decades, we’ve been replaying the same absurd partisan debate over whether to take high school activism seriously.
by
Rebecca Onion
via
Slate
on
February 22, 2018
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