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"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.

by Keri Leigh Merritt, Robert Greene II via Jacobin on August 24, 2019

Painting of the signing of the Declaration of Independence.

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.

by Timothy Sandefur via Reason on August 21, 2019

The Hopefulness and Hopelessness of 1619

Marking the 400-year African American struggle to survive and to be free of racism.

by Ibram X. Kendi via The Atlantic on August 20, 2019

1857 map of the United States, showing slave versus free states.

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.

by Philip Klein via Washington Examiner on August 20, 2019

Dear Disgruntled White Plantation Visitors, Sit Down

Michael W. Twitty on the changing tides of plantation interpretation.

by Michael W. Twitty via Afroculinaria on August 9, 2019

Open field by a highway.

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?

by Samantha Willis via Scalawag on 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.

by Drew Gilpin Faust via The Atlantic on July 18, 2019

The Racist History of Tipping

Employers pay tipped workers $2.13 an hour. Why? Reconstruction-era racial discrimination.

by William J. Barber II via Politico Magazine on July 17, 2019

African American re-enactor dressed as a Confederate.

How the Myth of Black Confederates Was Born

And how a handful of black Southerners helped perpetuate it after the Civil War.

by Kevin M. Levin via Made By History on July 17, 2019

The Black Woman Who Launched The Modern Fight For Reparations

Her grass-roots efforts shaped the conversation and presented a path forward.

by Ashley D. Farmer via Made By History on 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.

by Tom Jacobs via Pacific Standard on May 28, 2019

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.

via BackStory on 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.

by Allison Keyes via Smithsonian on May 22, 2019

The History of Black Women Championing Demands for Reparations

It's a struggle that's been waged for centuries.

by Ana Lucia Araujo via HNN on May 19, 2019

Slavery and the Family Tree

How do you make a family tree when you may not know your family history?

by Whitney Nell Stewart via Black Perspectives on May 15, 2019

Nat Turner's Slave Rebellion Ruins Are Disappearing in Virginia

Across Virginia, the landscape of slavery is fading as some work to preserve what is left.

by Gregory S. Schneider via Washington Post on April 30, 2019

Elder M. Andrew Robinson-Gaither demonstrates for reparations for slavery.

The Centuries-Long Fight for Reparations

And how black activists won the support of Democratic candidates.

by Ana Lucia Araujo via Made By History on April 28, 2019

LBJ at his desk writing.

A Brief History of Slavery Reparation Promises

Several 2020 presidential candidates have called for reparations for slavery in the U.S.

by John Torpey via The Conversation on April 11, 2019

Muslims Arrived in America 400 Years Ago and Today are Vastly Diverse

Islamophobes today ignore the long history and contributions of Muslim Americans.

by Saeed Ahmed Khan via The Conversation on April 11, 2019

This Could Be the First Slavery Reparations Policy in America

Georgetown University students consider a fund to benefit descendants of 272 slaves sold by the school nearly two centuries ago.

by Jesús A. Rodríguez via Politico Magazine on April 9, 2019

White Southerners' Wealth After the Civil War

What Southern dynasties’ post-Civil War resurgence tells us about how wealth is really handed down.

by Andrew Van Dam via Washington Post on April 4, 2019

How the South Won the Civil War

During Reconstruction, true citizenship finally seemed in reach for black Americans. Then their dreams were dismantled.

by Adam Gopnik via The New Yorker on April 1, 2019

Making Good on the Broken Promise of Reparations

Ignoring the moral imperative of repairing slavery's wounds because it might be “divisive” reinforces a myth of white innocence.

by Katherine Franke via New York Review of Books on March 18, 2019

Let’s Recognize the African-American Prisoners Who Helped Build America

Without them, the economy of the American South would never would have recovered after the Civil War.

by Talitha L. LeFlouria via The Root on February 26, 2019

In Search of George Washington Carver’s True Legacy

The famed agriculturalist deserves to be known for much more than peanuts.

by Rachel Kaufman via Smithsonian on February 21, 2019

America’s Original Sin

Slavery and the legacy of white supremacy.

by Annette Gordon-Reed via Foreign Affairs on December 20, 2018

Frederick Douglass.

Frederick Douglass, Abolition, and Memory

On Douglass’s monumental life, the voice of the biographer, memory and tragedy, and why history matters right now.

by David W. Blight, Martha Hodes via Public Books on November 26, 2018

Voters casting ballots in 2008.

The United States Isn’t a Democracy — And Was Never Intended to Be

Voting has always been restricted to empower a minority.

by Michael Todd Landis via Made By History on November 6, 2018

Lithograph of a white man beating an enslaved man.

How Slavery Made the Modern Scotland

A new documentary lays bare just how central a role Scotland played in the slave trade.

via The Herald on November 4, 2018

The Myth of a Southern Democracy

Voter suppression tactics have roots in Southern history dating to the Antebellum era.

by Keri Leigh Merritt via The Bitter Southerner on November 1, 2018

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