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L’Ouverture High School: Race, Place, and Memory in Oklahoma

A state with an often-overlooked history of enslavement demonstrates the lasting significance and geographic reach of the Haitian Revolution.
by Erica Johnson Edwards via Age of Revolutions on September 28, 2020
Photograph of people lining up to hear arguments in Brown v. Board of Education.

The Case for Ending the Supreme Court as We Know It

The Supreme Court, the federal branch with the least public accountability, has historically sided with tradition over more expansive human rights visions.
by Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor via The New Yorker on September 25, 2020

Is Freedom White?

In our current politics we must be attentive to how talk of American freedom has long been connected to the presumed right of whites to dominate everyone else.
by Jefferson Cowie via Boston Review on September 23, 2020

What Trump Is Missing About American History

Setting up a classroom battle between 1619 and 1776 gets history totally wrong and is damaging for our nation.
by Leslie M. Harris, Karin Wulf via Politico Magazine on September 20, 2020

Trump Calls for More Patriotic Education

The president has blamed schools for spurring the unrest in several U.S. cities that has led in some cases to looting and fires.
by Laura Meckler, Moriah Balingit via Retropolis on September 17, 2020
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Emancipation in War: The United States and Peru

A comparative look at the U.S. and Peru's emancipation proclamations' nuances in declaring the freedom of enslaved peoples.
by Niels Eichhorn via Muster on September 15, 2020
Painting of white men taking enslaved Africans off boat on a beach.

Who Owns the Evidence of Slavery’s Violence?

A lawsuit against Harvard University demands the return of an ancestor’s stolen image.
by Thomas A. Foster via Public Seminar on September 10, 2020

Racism Among White Christians is Higher Than Among the Nonreligious. That's no Coincidence.

For most of American history, the light-skinned Jesus conjured up by white congregations demanded the preservation of inequality as part of the divine order.
by Robert P. Jones via NBC News on July 28, 2020
Photo of KRS-One superimposed on photo of NY subway station in the Bronx

How KRS-One’s ‘Sound of Da Police’ Went From Anti-Cop Anthem to Theme Song and Back Again

The 1993 song reinvigorated the rap legend’s career — and against all odds became a Hollywood (and police) favorite
by Eric Ducker via Medium on July 25, 2020

How to Confront a Racist National History

Susan Neiman, a philosopher who studies Germany’s confrontation with its Nazi past, examines how the United States can remember slavery and segregation.
by Susan Neiman, Isaac Chotiner via The New Yorker on July 6, 2020

The Ancestry Project

Sometimes I learned more Black history in a week at home than I did in a lifetime of Februarys at school.
by Mariah Stovall via The Paris Review on June 29, 2020
A man walking by graffiti on a white wall that reads "Why do we have to keep telling you black lives matter?"

What the Protesters Tagging Historic Sites Get Right About the Past

Places of memory up and down the East Coast also witnessed acts of resistance and oppression.
by Lindsay M. Chervinsky via Smithsonian on June 26, 2020

The Power of Empty Pedestals

After Governor Northam announced its removal, two Richmond historians reflect on the legacy of the Lee Monument.
by Gregory D. Smithers, Michael Dickinson via The Bitter Southerner on June 23, 2020
Protesters in front of a Confederate monument hold a banner that reads "Take the statue down."

Ole Miss’s Monument to White Supremacy

New evidence shows what the 30-foot-tall Confederate memorial was actually meant to commemorate.  
by Anne Twitty via The Atlantic on June 19, 2020
Light reveals the faces three Black people expressing confidence and joy.

Racism Is Terrible. Blackness Is Not.

So many people taught us to be more than the hatred heaped upon us.
by Imani Perry via The Atlantic on June 15, 2020

The Corrupt Bargain

Eric Foner reviews two new books that make the case against the Electoral College.
by Eric Foner via London Review of Books on May 21, 2020

Kent State and the War That Never Ended

The deadly episode stood for a bitterly divided era. Did we ever leave it?
by Jill Lepore via The New Yorker on May 4, 2020

Slavery Documents from Southern Saltmakers Bring Light to Dark History

For one West Virginia community, the acquisition is a missing puzzle piece to questions about slavery in the state.
by Makeda Easter via Los Angeles Times on April 16, 2020
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The Revolutions

Ed Ayers visits public historians in Boston and Philadelphia and explores what “freedom” meant to those outside the halls of power in the Revolutionary era.
via Future Of America's Past on March 16, 2020

I Helped Fact-Check the 1619 Project. The Times Ignored Me.

The paper’s series on slavery made avoidable mistakes. But the attacks from its critics are much more dangerous.
by Leslie M. Harris via Politico Magazine on March 6, 2020

A Romantic Union? Thoughts on Plantation Weddings from a Photographer/Historian

Plantations are not "charming" or "tranquil" wedding venues. They were gruesome labor camps profiting off of enslaved labor.
by John R. Legg via National Council on Public History on February 24, 2020

The Tyranny of the Minority, from Iowa Caucus to Electoral College

The problem of minority rule isn’t Trumpian or temporary; it’s bipartisan and enduring.
by Corey Robin via New York Review of Books on February 21, 2020

Five Myths About Slavery

No, the Civil War didn’t end slavery, and the first Africans didn’t arrive in America in 1619.
by Daina Ramey Berry, Talitha L. LeFlouria via Washington Post on February 7, 2020

1619?

What to the historian is 1619? What to Africans and their descendants is 1619?
by Sasha Turner via Black Perspectives on January 14, 2020
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Jefferson's Other Legacy: Religious Liberty

Religious bigotry is only less pressing today than racial bigotry because of progress Jefferson helped bring about.
by Cameron Addis via HNN on January 10, 2020
Elizabeth Pryor

Why It's So Hard to Talk about the N-word

A professor explains the trauma of encountering "an idea disguised as a word."
by Elizabeth Stordeur Pryor via TED on December 1, 2019
First Lady Grace Coolidge with the racoon that was meant to be dinner.

Why President Coolidge Never Ate His Thanksgiving Raccoon

A tradition as American as apple pie, and older than the Constitution.
by Luke Fater via Atlas Obscura on November 26, 2019
Enslaved men in chains, from the cover of "Williams' Gang" by Jeff Forret.
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The History of Black Incarceration Is Longer Than You May Think

Enslaved woman Charlotte thought she was "free" from the slaveowner. She was wrong.
by Jeff Forret via HNN on November 24, 2019

The Tortured Logic of #ADOS

The American Descendants of Slavery movement combines a left-wing critique of America’s founding with a distinctly right-wing strain of xenophobia.
by Hubert Adjei-Kontoh via The Outline on November 21, 2019

American Slavery and ‘the Relentless Unforeseen’

What 1619 has become to the history of American slavery, 1688 is to the history of American antislavery.
by Sean Wilentz via New York Review of Books on November 19, 2019
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