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Historical marker in Memphis telling the history of Nathan Bedford Forrest

Naming the Enslaved, Reconciling the Past in Memphis

The roll call for the names of 74 African Americans sold into slavery by Nathan Bedford Forrest in Memphis was solemn.
by Hannah Baldwin via Southern Poverty Law Center on October 19, 2018
The Alamo.
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Once Again, Texas’s Board of Education Exposed How Poorly We Teach History

We’re not equipping children to become good citizens.
by Jonna Perrillo via Made By History on September 21, 2018

Terrorized African-Americans Found Their Champion in Civil War Hero Robert Smalls

The congressman and former slave claimed whites had killed 53,000 African-Americans. Few took him seriously—until now.
by Lisa Elmaleh Douglas via Smithsonian on August 22, 2018

Pride and Prejudice? The Americans Who Fly the Confederate Flag

A listening tour in Mississippi asks flag supporters why they still support a symbol that represents pain, division and difficult history.
by Donna Ladd via The Guardian on August 6, 2018

The School Massacre that Shocked Bath, Michigan

The chilling tale of a tragedy that was seemingly erased from the American consciousness.
by Bruce Kaplan via We're History on May 18, 2018
James Baldwin.

The Forgotten Baldwin

Baldwin demands that the Atlanta child murders be more than a mere media spectacle or crime story, and that black lives matter.
by Joseph Vogel via Boston Review on May 14, 2018

White Supremacy Is the Achilles Heel of American Democracy

Even in a high-tech era, fears about minority political agency are the most reliable way to destabilize the U.S. political system.
by Vann R. Newkirk II via The Atlantic on April 17, 2018
White nationalists, neo-Nazis and members of the 'alt-right' clash with counter-protesters at the Unite the Right rally August 12, 2017 in Charlottesville, VA.

The Vietnam War and White Power

A conversation with the author of "Bring the War Home: The White Power Movement and Paramilitary America."
by Kathleen Belew, Sean Illing via Vox on April 13, 2018

'Segregation's Constant Gardeners': How White Women Kept Jim Crow Alive

Meet the good white mothers, PTA members, and newspaper columnists who were also committed white supremacists.
by Rebecca Stoner via Pacific Standard on April 12, 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

A Cursed Appalachian Mining Town

An intimate portrait of a once-prosperous town in a forgotten corner of America.
by Emily Buder, Ivete Lucas, Patrick Bresnan via The Atlantic on March 13, 2018
Illustration of enslaved persons singing and dancing

Teaching White Supremacy: U.S. History Textbooks and the Influence of Historians

The assumptions of white priority and white domination suffuse every chapter and every theme of the thousands of textbooks that have blanketed the schools of our country.
by Donald Yacovone via Medium on March 6, 2018

The Whitewashing of King's Assassination

The death of Martin Luther King Jr. wasn’t a galvanizing event, but the premature end of a movement that had only just begun.
by Vann R. Newkirk II via The Atlantic on March 1, 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
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

The Bombs, the Church, the City, the State

What was Alabama back then? And what is Alabama right now?
by Charles P. Pierce via Esquire on December 11, 2017
Civil War rifles mounted on wall

The Brutal Origins of Gun Rights

A new history argues that the Second Amendment was intended to perpetuate white settlers' violence toward Native Americans.
by Patrick Blanchfield via The New Republic on December 11, 2017

Simeon Booker, Intrepid Chronicler of Civil Rights Struggle for Jet and Ebony, Dies at 99

He risked his life to expose Emmett Till’s death and the Freedom Rides to a national audience.
by Emily Langer via Washington Post on December 10, 2017
Robert E. Lee statue

The Fight Over Virginia’s Confederate Monuments

How the state’s past spurred a racial reckoning.
by Benjamin Wallace-Wells via The New Yorker on December 4, 2017

The Painful History of a Confederate Monument Tells Itself

Haunting archival footage of Stone Mountain's creation.
by Emily Buder via The Atlantic on December 1, 2017

Kings of the Confederate Road

Two writers — one black, one white — journey to Selma, Alabama, in search of "Southern heritage." This is their dialogue. 
by Maurice Carlos Ruffin, Tad Bartlett via The Bitter Southerner on November 28, 2017

The Nationalist's Delusion

Trumpism emerged from a haze of delusion, denial, pride, and cruelty—not as a historical anomaly, but as a profoundly American phenomenon.
by Adam Serwer via The Atlantic on November 20, 2017
Ulysses Grant

Ulysses Grant's America and Ours

Ron Chernow’s biography reminds our 21st-century selves of the distinction between character and personality.
by Lance Morrow via National Review on November 2, 2017

40 Years Ago: A Look Back at 1977

A visual trip back in time to 1977.
by Alan Taylor via The Atlantic on October 16, 2017

Confederacy: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver

John Oliver reflects on the history of Confederate monuments.
by John Oliver via Last Week Tonight on October 8, 2017
Ron Paul.

Libertarians Have More in Common With the Alt-Right Than They Want You To Think

After the alt-right march on Charlottesville, Matt Lewis pointed out the existence of a “libertarian to alt-right pipeline."
by John Ganz via Washington Post on September 19, 2017

When the Idea of Home Was Key to American Identity

From log cabins to Gilded Age mansions, how you lived determined where you belonged.
by Richard White via What It Means to Be American on September 11, 2017

Yes, Gone With the Wind Is Another Neo-Confederate Monument

How the classic film helped promote a Reconstruction myth that was central to the maintenance of Jim Crow.
by Ed Kilgore via Intelligencer on August 30, 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

Laundered Violence

Law and protest in Durham, North Carolina.
by Jedediah Britton-Purdy via n+1 on August 23, 2017
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