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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

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

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

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

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

Laundered Violence

Law and protest in Durham, North Carolina.

by Jedediah Britton-Purdy via n+1 on August 23, 2017

Lithograph of the Reconstruction-era Black Senators and Congressmen.

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

Growing Up in the Shadow of the Confederacy

Memorials to the Lost Cause have always meant something sinister for the descendants of enslaved people.

by Vann R. Newkirk II via The Atlantic on August 22, 2017

Man in foreground wearing neo-Nazi patch, man in background holding Confederate flag.

Worshiping the Confederacy is About White Supremacy — Even the Nazis Thought So

Confederate memory nurtured fascism.

by Nina Silber via Made By History on August 17, 2017

Racism, Medievalism, and the White Supremacists of Charlottesville

The weekend's demonstrators were the latest in a long line of American racists to ally themselves with an imagined Middle Ages.

by Josephine Livingstone via The New Republic on August 15, 2017

The Yakima Terror

Ninety years ago in Washington, a wave of anti-immigrant sentiment resulted in horror for Filipinos.

by Steve Ross via Slate on August 4, 2017

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

Confederate Commander Col. Lawrence Allen and his wife.

The Massacre Men

The Confederacy often used brutal tactics against Union sympathizers, even in Southern towns.

by David Forbes via Scalawag on July 27, 2017

Trump Hasn’t Killed Comedy. He’s Killed Our Stupid Idea of Comedy.

You and I have grown up during a period in which comedy became strangely bound up with truth and virtue. Trump has cut the knot.

by Andrew Kahn via Slate on July 19, 2017

Policing the Community

Today, many politicians claim a community approach means soft on crime. Birmingham's Johnnie Johnson Jr. disagrees.

by Lanier Isom via The Bitter Southerner on July 18, 2017

The Devastation of Black Wall Street

Racial violence destroyed an affluent African-American community, seen as a threat to white-dominated American capitalism.

by Kimberly Fain via JSTOR Daily on July 5, 2017

History Writ Aright

What would it take for people "to know their history"? Pay attention to the silences.

by Brendan Wolfe via brendanwolfe.com on July 4, 2017

Man painting over a Robert E. Lee mural.

The Myth of the Kindly General Lee

The legend of the Confederate leader’s heroism and decency is based in the fiction of a person who never existed.

by Adam Serwer via The Atlantic on June 4, 2017

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