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A Founder of American Religious Nationalism
On Rousas Rushdoony's political thought and lasting influence on the Christian right.
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Katherine Stewart
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HNN
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March 3, 2020
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The Case for Reparations Is Nothing New
In fact, Black activists and civil rights leaders have been advocating for compensation for the trauma and cost of slavery for centuries.
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Mohammed Elnaiem
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JSTOR Daily
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February 27, 2020
Sorry, New York Times, But America Began in 1776
The United States didn't begin in 1619.
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Wilfred Reilly
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Quillette
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February 17, 2020
What Do We Want History to Do to Us?
Zadie Smith on Kara Walker, blackness and public art.
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Zadie Smith
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New York Review of Books
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February 6, 2020
Our Ancestors Were Sold to Save Georgetown. ‘$400,000 Is Not Going to Do It.’
The school has decided how much money we’re owed in reparations.
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Alexander Stockton
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New York Times Op-Docs
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February 6, 2020
1619 and All That
The Editor of the American Historical Review weighs in on recent historiographical debates around the New York Times' 1619 Project.
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Alex Lichtenstein
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American Historical Review
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February 3, 2020
Slavery Reparations Seem Impossible. In Many places, They’re Already Happening.
At the local level, reparations for slavery are already being paid all over the country.
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Thai Jones
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Washington Post
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January 31, 2020
The Hidden Stakes of the 1619 Controversy
Critics of the New York Times’s 1619 Project obscure a longstanding debate among historians over whether the American Revolution was a proslavery revolt.
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David Waldstreicher
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Boston Review
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January 24, 2020
A Brief History of Black Names, from Perlie to Latasha
A scholar disproves the long-held assumption that black names are a recent phenomenon.
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Trevon Logan
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The Conversation
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January 23, 2020
The Fight Over the 1619 Project Is Not About the Facts
A dispute between some scholars and the authors of NYT Magazine’s issue on slavery represents a fundamental disagreement over the trajectory of U.S. society.
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Adam Serwer
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The Atlantic
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December 23, 2019
It’s OK If the Story of Black Americans Begins Right Here on This Land
America should be ashamed of slavery, but black Americans do not bear the burden of shame.
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Natalie Y. Moore
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Chicago Sun-Times
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November 21, 2019
Cut Me Loose
A personal account of how one young woman travels to South Carolina in search of her family history and freedom narrative.
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Joshunda Sanders
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Oxford American
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November 19, 2019
Talking Drums
On the relationship between African American music traditions and one of the most infamous slave revolts, the Stono Rebellion, in colonial South Carolina.
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John Jeremiah Sullivan
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Oxford American
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November 19, 2019
Muskets! Axes! Revolt! Here Are the Plans for a Reenactment of an Actual 1811 Rebellion
This fall 500 Louisianans, in 19th-century attire, will re-create America’s largest plantation uprising.
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Julian Lucas
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Vanity Fair
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September 9, 2019
The Buried Promise of the Reconstruction Amendments
The historical context of the amendments passed in the wake of the Civil War, Eric Foner argues, are widely misunderstood.
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Eric Foner
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Isaac Chotiner
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The New Yorker
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September 9, 2019
How Slavery Shaped American Capitalism
The New York Times is right that slavery made a major contribution to capitalist development in the United States — just not in the way they imagine.
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John Clegg
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Jacobin
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August 28, 2019
"Poor Whites Have Been Written out of History for a Very Political Reason"
For generations, Southern white elites have been terrified of poor whites and black workers joining hands.
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Keri Leigh Merritt
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Robert Greene II
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Jacobin
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August 24, 2019
The Nation Is Imperfect. The Constitution Is Still a 'Glorious Liberty Document.'
As part of its “1619” inquiry into slavery's legacy, The New York Times revives 19th century revisionist history on the founding.
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Timothy Sandefur
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Reason
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August 21, 2019
The Hopefulness and Hopelessness of 1619
Marking the 400-year African American struggle to survive and to be free of racism.
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Ibram X. Kendi
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The Atlantic
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August 20, 2019
How Slavery Doomed Limited Government in America
It made it impossible to limit the size and scope of the federal government. Conservatives need to recognize that.
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Philip Klein
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Washington Examiner
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August 20, 2019
Dear Disgruntled White Plantation Visitors, Sit Down
Michael W. Twitty on the changing tides of plantation interpretation.
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Michael W. Twitty
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Afroculinaria
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August 9, 2019
The Departed and Dismissed of Richmond
Richmond has a long-forgotten graveyard that is the resting place for hundreds of slaves. Will a new railway be built over it?
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Samantha Willis
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Scalawag
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August 5, 2019
Race, History, and Memories of a Virginia Girlhood
A historian looks back at the legacy of slavery and Jim Crow in her home state.
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Drew Gilpin Faust
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The Atlantic
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July 18, 2019
The Racist History of Tipping
Employers pay tipped workers $2.13 an hour. Why? Reconstruction-era racial discrimination.
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William J. Barber II
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Politico Magazine
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July 17, 2019
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How the Myth of Black Confederates Was Born
And how a handful of black Southerners helped perpetuate it after the Civil War.
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Kevin M. Levin
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Made by History
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July 17, 2019
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The Black Woman Who Launched The Modern Fight For Reparations
Her grass-roots efforts shaped the conversation and presented a path forward.
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Ashley D. Farmer
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Made by History
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June 24, 2019
One Reason Why White People in the South Have More Bias Against Black Americans
Research finds that white people in regions that were heavily dependent on slavery are more likely to harbor unconscious racism.
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Tom Jacobs
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Pacific Standard
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May 28, 2019
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Paying for the Past: Reparations and American History
Reparations for African-Americans has been a hot topic on the presidential campaign trail, but the debate goes back centuries.
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BackStory
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May 24, 2019
The 'Clotilda,' the Last Known Slave Ship to Arrive in the U.S., Is Found
The discovery carries intense, personal meaning for an Alabama community of descendants of the ship's survivors.
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Allison Keyes
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Smithsonian
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May 22, 2019
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The History of Black Women Championing Demands for Reparations
It's a struggle that's been waged for centuries.
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Ana Lucia Araujo
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HNN
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May 19, 2019
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