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Jefferson’s Monticello Finally Gives Sally Hemings Her Place in Presidential History

New exhibits put slavery at the center of Monticello's story, and make it clear that Jefferson was the father of Hemings' children.
by Philip Kennicott via Washington Post on June 13, 2018
MLK with rabbi and bishop at Arlington Cemetery

Exploding Myths About 'Black Power, Jewish Politics'

Marc Dollinger argues that the conventional wisdom of Black and Jewish harmony during the civil rights era is flawed. The real story has lessons for today.
by Marc Dollinger, Leah Donnella via NPR on June 4, 2018
Photo of pop singer Erykah Badu, a black woman wearing a headwrap, singing into microphone.

The Radical History of the Headwrap

Born into slavery, then reclaimed by black women, the headwrap is now a celebrated expression of style and identity.
by Khanya Mtshali via Timeline on May 10, 2018

The Role of Water in African American History

Have historians privileged land-based models and ignored how African Americans participated in aquatic activities?
by Tyler D. Parry via Black Perspectives on May 4, 2018

The New Orleans Streetcar Protests of 1867

The lesser-known beginning of the desegregation of public transportation.
by John Bardes via We're History on April 28, 2018
Robert Redford in "The Sting."

Why Are All the Con Artists White?

The history of the black con artist has been forgotten.
by Shane White via Journal of the History of Ideas Blog on April 23, 2018

End of the American Dream? The Dark History of 'America First'

When he promised to put America first in his inaugural speech, Donald Trump drew on a slogan with a long and sinister history.
by Sarah Churchwell via The Guardian on April 21, 2018

NYC Will Move—But Not Remove—Statue of Gynecologist Who Experimented on Slaves

Some say the decision to move the statue of Dr. J. Marion Sims from Central Park to a Brooklyn cemetery is a "slap in the face."
by Kimberly Lawson via Broadly on April 16, 2018

Banking Against (Black) Capitalism

A review of "The Color of Money: Black Banks and the Racial Wealth Gap."
by Armond Towns, Carolyn Hardin via Los Angeles Review of Books on March 19, 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
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 Hidden History of Anna Murray Douglass

Although she’s often overshadowed by her husband, Anna made his work possible.
by Lorraine Boissoneault via Smithsonian on March 5, 2018

Reclaiming Stone Mountain From the Alt-Right

How Stone Mountain could become a battlefield where neo-Confederates from across the country make their last stand.
by Tony Rehagen via Pacific Standard on February 14, 2018

Slavery and the American University

Determined researchers are finally drawing the lines between higher education and America's original sin.
by Alex Carp via New York Review of Books on February 7, 2018

The Strike That Brought MLK to Memphis

In his final days, King stood by striking sanitation workers. We returned to the city to see what has changed—and what hasn’t.
by Ted Conover via Smithsonian on January 1, 2018

How Braids Tell America’s Black Hair History

Beyond three strands of hair interlocked around each other, there's a complicated story.
by Ayana Byrd via ELLE on December 27, 2017

Coates and West in Jackson

America loves pitting black intellectuals against each other, but today's activists need both Coates and West.
by Robin D. G. Kelley via Boston Review on December 22, 2017
A prison cell with a television tuned to election coverage.
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Why Felon Disenfranchisement Doesn't Violate the Constitution

The justification can be found in an obscure section of the Fourteenth Amendment.
by Sara Mayeux on December 21, 2017

A Hillbilly Syllabus

“Some people call me Hillbilly, Some people call me Mountain Man; Well, you can call me Appalachia, ’Cause Appalachia is what I am.” —Del McCoury
by Eric Kerl via ChiTucky on December 10, 2017
Lithograph by Winslow Homer titled "Thanksgiving Day in the Army" depicting soldiers pulling apart a wishbone.

A Confederate Curriculum

How Miss Millie taught the Civil War.
by Jonathan Zimmerman via Lapham’s Quarterly on November 6, 2017
George Washington statue at Federal Hall

The Next Lost Cause

Why the slope from toppling Confederate monuments to shunning the Founders is so slippery.
by Michael Brendan Dougherty via National Review on November 1, 2017

The Census Always Boxed Us Out

For most of our history, the U.S. government treated biracial Americans as if we didn’t even exist, but my family has stories to tell.
by E. Dolores Johnson via Narratively on October 30, 2017
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“I Wanted to Tell the Story of How I Had Become a Racist”

An interview with historian Charles B. Dew.
by Charles B. Dew, Robin Lindley via HNN on September 10, 2017
Otis Redding

Five Magnificent Years

A recent Otis Redding biography examines what was and what could have been, 50 years after tragedy struck.
by Geoffrey O'Brien via New York Review of Books on September 10, 2017

A Most American Terrorist

The Making Of Dylann Roof.
by Rachel Kaadzi Ghansah via GQ on August 21, 2017

Who Owns Uncle Ben?

The roots of rice in South Carolina's Lowcountry are troubling and complicated. Today, we stir the pot.
by Shane Mitchell via The Bitter Southerner on June 6, 2017

Confederate or Not, Which Monuments Should Stay or Go? We Asked, You Answered.

We asked about monuments in your home town. Here's what you said.
via Washington Post on June 6, 2017

The Roots of Segregation

"The Color of Law" offers an indicting critique of the progressive agenda.
by Carl Paulus via The American Conservative on May 5, 2017
2016 electoral college map.

Original Sin: The Electoral College as a Pro-Slavery Tool

Slave states gave us the Electoral College; we should get rid of this vestige of the so-called peculiar institution.
by Paul Finkelman via Los Angeles Review of Books on December 19, 2016

A DNA Test Won’t Explain Elizabeth Warren’s Ancestry

You’re not 28 percent Finnish, either.
by Matt Miller via Slate on June 29, 2016
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