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For the First Time, America May Have an Anti-Racist Majority

Not since Reconstruction has there been such an opportunity for the advancement of racial justice.

by Adam Serwer via The Atlantic on September 8, 2020

Demonstrators with signs reading "Every Person Counts."

Trump’s Push to Skew the Census Builds on a Long History of Politicizing the Count

Who counts determines whose interests are represented in government.

by Paul Schor via Made By History on July 23, 2020

Robert Smalls

What Woodrow Wilson Did to Robert Smalls

We all know, in the abstract, that Wilson was a white supremacist. But here’s how he wielded his racism against one accomplished Black American.

by Aderson François via The New Republic on July 3, 2020

My Grandfather Participated in One of America’s Deadliest Racial Conflicts

J. Chester Johnson on the Elaine Race Massacre of 1919.

by J. Chester Johnson via Literary Hub on May 6, 2020

Is Impeachment Only About Getting a Conviction?

A new history of Andrew Johnson’s trial reminds us the impeachment is a tool to constrain executive abuse of power and publicize dissent on matters of policy.

by Stephanie McCurry via The Nation on January 30, 2020

The Legal Fight That Ended the Unjust Confinement of Mental Health Patients

Ayelet Waldman on the landmark case O’Connor v. Donaldson.

by Ayelet Waldman via Literary Hub on January 21, 2020

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

The Bad-Apple Myth of Policing

Violence perpetrated by cops doesn’t simply boil down to individual bad actors—it’s also a systemic, judicial failing.

by Osagie K Obasogie via The Atlantic on August 2, 2019

The ‘Death Penalty’s Dred Scott’ Lives On

In 1987, the Supreme Court came within one vote of eliminating capital punishment in Georgia because of of racial disparities.

by Annika Neklason via The Atlantic on June 14, 2019

Black and white image of Alice Paul, broadcasting from her desk at the Capitol, 1923.

Why the Fight Over the Equal Rights Amendment Has Lasted Nearly a Century

Passage of the ERA seemed like a sure thing. So why did it fail to become law?

by Erin Blakemore via HISTORY on November 26, 2018

Electing the House of Representatives

A series of interactive maps showing the results of nearly two centuries of congressional elections.

by Robert K. Nelson, LaDale Winling via American Panorama on October 15, 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

Will Democrats Regret Weaponizing the Judiciary?

Using the court system to stymie a president has backfired before.

by Matthew Pritchard via Politico Magazine on September 24, 2018

The Original Constitution of the United States: Religion, Race, and Gender

The Constitution of 2018 is not the Constitution written by the Framers in 1787, and no one should wish otherwise.

by Richard D. Brown via Medium on September 20, 2018

How Corporations Won Their Civil Rights

The Court got it right—but it's not a conclusion we should be entirely comfortable with.

by Robert VerBruggen via The American Conservative on July 3, 2018

Artificial Persons

The long road to "Citizens United."

by David Cole via The Nation on June 6, 2018

Separation of Power

To make a more perfect union, don’t look to the Founding Fathers.

by William Hogeland via Lapham’s Quarterly on March 14, 2018

How Do We Explain This National Tragedy? This Trump?

On 400 Years of Tribalism, Genocide, Expulsion, and Imprisonment.

by T. J. Stiles via Literary Hub on January 31, 2018

Pauli Murray

The Life of Pauli Murray: An Interview with Rosalind Rosenberg

The author of a new biography explains how Murray changed the way that discrimination is understood today.

by Rosalind Rosenberg, Alyssa Collins via Black Perspectives on October 16, 2017

Women with a sign supporting passage of the ERA.

Who Killed the ERA?

A review of "Divided We Stand: The Battle Over Women’s Rights and Family Values That Polarized American Politics."

by Linda Greenhouse via New York Review of Books on October 12, 2017

History Frowns on Partisan Gerrymandering

On the eve of a major redistricting case at the Supreme Court, a look back at what the nation's founders would have thought.

by Michael Waldman, Cliff Sloan via Washington Post on October 1, 2017

John Lewis speaking in front of the Supreme Court.

Litigating the Line Between Past and Present

The Supreme Court is about to take up another blockbuster voting rights case. At its core is a struggle over the limits of history.

by Sara Mayeux on September 29, 2017

Women's Suffrage @100

We date the expansion of voting rights to women in 1920, but the real story is a lot more complex.

by Linda Gordon via Public Books on September 22, 2017

How About Erecting Monuments to the Heroes of Reconstruction?

Americans should build this pivotal post–Civil War era into the new politics of historical memory.

by Richard Valelly via The American Prospect on August 23, 2017

Allegorical lithograph entitled "Reconstruction," by J. L. Giles in 1867.

Why the Second American Revolution Deserves as Much Attention as the First

The first revolution articulated American ideals. The second enacted them.

by Gregory P. Downs via Made By History on July 19, 2017

When Congress Almost Ousted a Failing President

It’s Andrew Johnson, not Andrew Jackson, who provides the best model for Trump’s collapsing presidency.

by Joshua Zeitz via Politico Magazine on May 20, 2017

A Dual Emancipation

How black freedom benefited poor whites.

by Keri Leigh Merritt via Black Perspectives on April 15, 2017

The History Test

How should the courts use history?

by Jill Lepore via The New Yorker on March 27, 2017

Are Puerto Ricans Really American Citizens?

How it came to be that Puerto Rico came to have a separate but unequal status under American law.

by Charles R. Venator-Santiago via The Conversation on March 2, 2017

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

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