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Why The Racial Wealth Gap Persists, More Than 150 Years After Emancipation

When one system of economic oppression collapsed, new ones were created to fill the void.

by Calvin Schermerhorn via Made By History on June 19, 2019

Balancing the Ledger on Juneteenth

The reparations debate highlights what Juneteenth is about: freedom and demanding accountability for past and present wrongs.

by Vann R. Newkirk II via The Atlantic on June 19, 2019

Like Jackie Robinson, Baseball Should Honor Curt Flood's Sacrifice

Fifty years ago, Flood took a stand and paved the way for free agency.

by William C. Rhoden via Andscape on April 15, 2019

Empire of the Census

America’s long history of manipulating its headcount for political gain.

by Ed Burmila via The Baffler on March 1, 2019

Political cartoon of the liberation of a slave by going to a free state.

The Mystery of William Jones, an Enslaved Man Owned by Ulysses S. Grant

Looking for traces of the last person ever owned by a U.S. president.

by Nick Sacco via Muster on December 7, 2018

Paul Ortiz’s “African American and Latinx History of the United States.”

Beyond People’s History

On Paul Ortiz’s “African American and Latinx History of the United States.”

by Samantha Schuyler via Los Angeles Review of Books on September 29, 2018

Story of Paris Hill Man Connects Maine to ‘Complexities’ of Slave Trade

Torn from his family in Africa, Pedro Tovookan Parris spent the last years of his short life in rural Maine.

by Kelley Bouchard via Press Herald on July 15, 2018

Manuscript of the Fourteenth Amendment.

We Should Embrace the Ambiguity of the 14th Amendment

A hundred and fifty years after its ratification, some of its promises remain unfulfilled—but one day it may still be interpreted anew.

by Eric Foner via The Nation on July 9, 2018

Jefferson and Hemings: How Negotiation Under Slavery Was Possible

In navigating lives of privation and brutality, enslaved people haggled, often daily, for liberties small and large.

by Daina Ramey Berry via HISTORY on July 8, 2018

Ira Berlin, Transformative Historian of Slavery in America, Dies at 77

He “put the history of slavery at the center of our understanding of American history.”

by Harrison Smith via Washington Post on June 6, 2018

Lithograph of Josiah Henson in his autobiography.

The Story of Josiah Henson, the Real Inspiration for 'Uncle Tom’s Cabin'

Before Stowe's famous novel, a formerly enslaved African-American living in Canada wrote a memoir detailing his experience.

by Jared Brock via Smithsonian on May 16, 2018

Contraband Flesh

A reflection on Zora Neale Hurston’s newly-published book, "Barracoon."

by Autumn Womack via The Paris Review on May 7, 2018

The Last Slave

In 1931, Zora Neale Hurston recorded the story of Cudjo Lewis, the last living slave-ship survivor. It languished in a vault... until now.

by Zora Neale Hurston, Nick Tabor via Vulture on April 29, 2018

How The Sacrifices of Black Civil War Troops Advanced Medicine

A new museum exhibit in Philadelphia showcases the first public health record of African Americans.

by Ilene Raymond Rush via Philly.com on March 21, 2018

How It Feels to Be a Problem

An animated excerpt of an article from W.E.B. Du Bois depicts the “double-consciousness of a dark body.”

by Tynesha Foreman via The Atlantic on March 6, 2018

Drawing of a black man holding a shovel (out of frame).

Arlington Is More Than a Cemetery

Arlington House’s transformations mirror our own.

by Jackie Roche via The Nib on January 22, 2018

Why A 19th Century American Slave Memoir Is Becoming A Bestseller In Japan's Bookstores

Why "Incidents In The Life Of A Slave Girl" by Harriet Ann Jacobs (1861), became a hit in Japan when it was published there in 2013.

by Jake Adelstein via Forbes on November 15, 2017

Colin Kaepernick: Historical Perspectives

Throughout history, one would be hard-pressed to find an example of black protest that most white people found acceptable at the time.

by Erin Burin via North Dakota Perspectives on October 4, 2017

The American Revolution was a Huge Victory for Equality. Liberals Should Celebrate it.

The left is turning its back on the Revolution. Here's why that's a mistake.

by Jeff Stein via Vox on July 4, 2017

Memorial Day and Our African American Dead

Are we honoring all of our American heroes this Memorial Day?

by Robert Greene II via U.S. Intellectual History Blog on May 28, 2017

What Richmond Has Gotten Right About Interpreting its Confederate History

Why hasn't Richmond faced the same controversies as New Orleans or Charlottesville?

by Kevin M. Levin via Smithsonian on May 18, 2017

Race and Labor in the 1863 New York City Draft Riots

What sparked one of the deadliest insurrections in American history?

by Shannon Luders-Manuel, Albon P Man Jr. via JSTOR Daily on May 4, 2017

How African-Americans Disappeared from the Kentucky Derby

In the 19th century – when horse racing was America’s most popular sport – former slaves populated the ranks of jockeys and trainers.

by Katherine Mooney via The Conversation on May 4, 2017

Detail from the Russian poster for the 1957 Polish film Kanal, directed by Andrzej Wajda and set during the 1944 Warsaw Uprising. Photo by Getty

The Strange Political History of The ‘Underground’

Subterranean metaphors have been a powerful tool of political resistance. Today, is there anywhere left to hide?

by Terence Renaud via Aeon on December 14, 2016

A line of prison laborers by a railroad.

“One Continuous Graveyard”: Emancipation and the Birth of the Professional Police Force

After emancipation, prison labor replaced slavery as a way for white Southerners to enforce a racial hierarchy.

by Keri Leigh Merritt via Black Perspectives on July 11, 2016

Forget Hamilton, Burr Is the Real Hero

We can learn more from him in today's political world.

by Carey Wallace via TIME on April 14, 2016

Land and The Roots of African-American Poverty

Land redistribution could have served as the primary means of reparations for former slaves. Instead, it did exactly the opposite.

by Keri Leigh Merritt via Aeon on March 11, 2016

Born a Slave, Emma Ray Was The Saint of Seattle’s Slums

Emma Ray was a leader in battles against poverty, and for temperance.

by Lorraine McConaghy via Crosscut on February 26, 2016

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

Race and the American Creed

Recovering black radicalism.

by Aziz Rana via n+1 on December 7, 2015

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