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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
partner
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
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
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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
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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
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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
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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, 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
partner
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
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
Fried Chicken Is Common Ground
If you like hot chicken, perhaps you’d be interested in knowing where it comes from.
by
Osayi Endolyn
via
Eater
on
October 3, 2018
The Origins of Prison Slavery
How Southern whites found replacements for their emancipated slaves in the prison system.
by
Shane Bauer
via
Slate
on
October 2, 2018
Slave and Free Black Marriage in the Nineteenth Century
During and after slavery, some whites considered legal marriage too sacred an institution to be offered to black Americans.
by
Vanessa M. Holden
via
Black Perspectives
on
September 19, 2018
The Environmental Roots of Jim Crow in Coastal South Carolina
On the origins of the Lost Cause of the Lowcountry.
by
Caroline Grego
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Environmental History Now
on
September 13, 2018
A House Still Divided
In 1858, Lincoln warned that America could not remain “half slave and half free.” The threat today is as existential as it was before the Civil War.
by
Ibram X. Kendi
via
The Atlantic
on
September 13, 2018
partner
Why Some White Americans see Racial Equality as Oppression
White victimhood's roots in the Civil War.
by
Martha Hodes
via
Made by History
on
August 27, 2018
The View from Cottage Hill
History bleeds in Montgomery, Alabama.
by
Siddhartha Mitter
via
Popula
on
August 23, 2018
partner
The Legendary Language of the Appalachian "Holler"
Is the unique dialect a vestige of Elizabethan England? Left over from Scots-Irish immigrants? Or something else altogether?
by
Chi Luu
via
JSTOR Daily
on
August 8, 2018
One Man's Quest to Uncover the True Costs of Jim Crow
"It’s going to change how we think about Texas history and how we think about ourselves and how we built this state."
by
Megan Flynn
via
Washington Post
on
July 18, 2018
As Goes the South, So Goes the Nation
History haunts, but Alabama changes.
by
Imani Perry
via
Harper's
on
July 15, 2018
My Great-Grandfather, the Nigerian Slave-Trader
White traders couldn’t have loaded their ships without help from Africans like my great-grandfather.
by
Adaobi Tricia Nwaubani
via
The New Yorker
on
July 15, 2018
Citizens: 150 Years of the 14th Amendment
In 1868, black activists had already been promoting birthright as the basis of their national belonging for nearly half a century.
by
Martha S. Jones
via
Public Books
on
July 9, 2018
The Urgency of a Third Reconstruction
The ratification of the Fourteenth Amendment marked a turning point in U.S. history. Yet 150 years later, its promises remain unfulfilled.
by
Robert Greene II
via
Dissent
on
July 9, 2018
Charleston, Key Port For Slaves In America, Apologizes And Meditates On Racism Today
The apology was a long time coming.
by
Bill Chappell
via
NPR
on
June 20, 2018
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