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The Firsts

The children who desegregated America.
by Adam Harris, Rebecca Rosen via The Atlantic on September 29, 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

The Unprecedented Bravery of Olivia de Havilland

The 'Gone With the Wind' film legend, who died at age 104, went up against a broken Hollywood studio system—and helped change the industry forever.
by Todd S. Purdum via The Atlantic on July 26, 2020

Since Emancipation, the United States Has Refused to Make Reparations for Slavery

But in 1862, the federal government doled out the 2020 equivalent of $23 million—not to the formerly enslaved but to their white enslavers.
by Kali Holloway via The Nation on March 23, 2020
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School Interrupted

The movement for school desegregation took some of its first steps with a student strike in rural Virginia. Ed Ayers learns about those who made it happen.
via Future Of America's Past on March 23, 2020

How Disney’s ‘Community of Tomorrow’ Became a Nightmare

In 2004, Disney sold the downtown of utopian Celebration, Florida, to a private equity firm. Residents say it took their money and let the city rot around them.
by Tarpley Hitt via The Daily Beast on December 18, 2019

A Personal Act of Reparation

The long aftermath of a North Carolina man’s decision to deed a plot of land to his former slaves.
by Kirk Savage via Lapham’s Quarterly on December 15, 2019

How War Made the Cigarette

A new book explores the tangled politics behind a global addiction.
by Scott Wasserman Stern via The New Republic on September 25, 2019

"Ulysses" on Trial

It was a setup: a stratagem worthy of wily Ulysses himself.
by Michael Chabon via New York Review of Books on September 13, 2019

The Credo Company

A shocking story about the biggest company in the US's most profitable industry.
by Steven Brill via Highline on August 1, 2019

The Radical Roots of Free Speech

Conservatives like to claim that leftists are opponents of free speech. But that’s nonsense.
by Chase Burghgrave, Laura Weinrib via Jacobin on July 25, 2019

The Supreme Court Decision That Kept Suburban Schools Segregated

A 1974 Supreme Court decision found that school segregation was allowable if it wasn’t being done on purpose.
by Jon Hale via The Conversation on July 24, 2019
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How Advocates can Defeat Trump’s Latest Assault on Asylum Seekers

Immigration activists helped give power to asylum protections once before. They can do it again.
by Carly Goodman, S. Deborah Kang, Yael Schacher via Made by History on July 18, 2019

Americans Shouldn’t Have to Drive, but the Law Insists on It

The automobile took over because the legal system helped squeeze out the alternatives.
by Gregory H. Shill via The Atlantic on July 9, 2019

An Oral History of Trump’s Bigotry

His racism and intolerance have always been in evidence; only slowly did he begin to understand how to use them to his advantage.
by David A. Graham, Parker Richards, Adrienne Green, Cullen Murphy via The Atlantic on May 13, 2019

Uncovering the Truth About a Raid on the Black Panthers

How a team of lawyers exposed lies about police violence.
by Flint Taylor via Literary Hub on February 25, 2019
Pinkerton detectives.

Who Were the Pinkertons?

A video game portrays the Wild West’s famous detective agency as violent enforcers of order. But the modern-day company disagrees.
by Rebecca Onion via Slate on February 1, 2019

How Flight Attendants Organized Against Their Bosses to End Stereotyping 

The marketing of stewardesses’ bodies was long an integral part of airline marketing strategies.
by Gillian Frank, Lauren Gutterman via Jezebel on November 29, 2018

Ancestry.com Is In Cahoots With Public Records Agencies, A Group Suspects

A nonprofit claims its request for genealogical records from state archives was brushed aside in favor of Ancestry’s request.
by Katie Notopoulos via BuzzFeed News on October 22, 2018

‘Crush Them’: An Oral History of the Lawsuit That Upended Silicon Valley

Twenty years ago, Microsoft tried to eliminate its competition in the race for the internet's future. The government had other ideas.
by Victor Luckerson via The Ringer on May 18, 2018

Josef K. in Washington

A review of "Closing the Courthouse Door: How Your Constitutional Rights Became Unenforceable" by Erwin Chemerinsky.
by David Luban via New York Review of Books on March 2, 2018

My Journey to the Heart of the FOIA Request

How a simple request became a bureaucratic nightmare.
by Spenser Mestel via Longreads on September 20, 2017

The Supreme Court’s Quiet Assault on Civil Rights

The Supreme Court is quietly gutting one of the United States’ most important civil rights statutes.
by Lynn Adelman via Dissent on September 1, 2017

Eavesdropping on Roy Cohn and Donald Trump

Remembering the switchboard operator who listened in on Cohn’s calls with Nancy Reagan, Gloria Vanderbilt, Carlo Gambino, and Trump.
by Marcus Baram via The New Yorker on April 14, 2017

The True Story of the Louisiana Purchase Is One of Plunder of Native American Lands

The U.S. didn't buy a huge tract of land from France. It bought the right to displace Native Americans from that land.
by Robert Lee via Slate on March 1, 2017

Claudette Colvin: 'A Teenage Rosa Parks'

What makes a hero? Why do we remember some stories and not others?
by Radio Diaries via Radio Diaries on March 2, 2016

The Divorce Colony

The strange tale of the socialites who shaped modern marriage on the American frontier.
by April White via The Atavist on December 8, 2015
Elder M. Andrew Robinson-Gaither demonstrates for reparations for slavery.

The Thirteenth Amendment and a Reparations Program

The amendment, which brought an end to slavery in the U.S., could be used to begin a national debate on reparations.
by Ramsin Canon via U.S. Intellectual History Blog on July 12, 2014
Photograph of blues singer Robert Johnson, playing guitar, 1936.

Searching for Robert Johnson

In the seven decades since his mysterious death, bluesman Robert Johnson’s legend has grown.
by Frank DiGiacomo via Vanity Fair on October 1, 2008
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Bones of Dispute

Who owns the past? That is the subject of debate after the discovery of a human skeleton on the banks of the Columbia River in Kennewick, Washington.
by MacNeil/Lehrer News Hour via American Archive of Public Broadcasting on January 3, 1997
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