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Whose Side Is the Supreme Court On?
The Supreme Court and the pursuit of racial equality.
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Randall Kennedy
via
The Nation
on
August 9, 2021
Echo Chambers
Parallels between the American Revolution and the U.S. Capitol riot.
by
Sarah Swedberg
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Nursing Clio
on
August 5, 2021
Vaccine Mandates Are as American as Apple Pie
Those who claim that vaccine resistance is an expression of liberty are historically illiterate.
by
Matt Ford
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The New Republic
on
July 30, 2021
The People vs. Agent Orange Exposes a Mass Poisoning in Plain Sight
A new PBS documentary investigates the legacy of one of the most dangerous pollutants on the planet, an unsettling cover-up, and the fight for accountability.
by
Jasper Craven
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The New Republic
on
June 28, 2021
The United States' First Civil Rights Movement
A new history charts the radical agitation around Black rights and freedom back to the early nineteenth century.
by
Kellie Carter Jackson
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The Nation
on
June 16, 2021
Dickinson’s Improvisations
A new edition of Emily Dickinson’s Master letters highlights what remains blazingly intense and mysterious in her work.
by
Brenda Wineapple
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New York Review of Books
on
June 12, 2021
Vice Age
Chronicling the policing of gay life in the mid-20th century.
by
Lewis Rice
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Harvard Law Bulletin
on
June 11, 2021
A Mother’s Influence
How African American women represented Black motherhood in the early nineteenth century.
by
Crystal Webster
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Lapham’s Quarterly
on
June 9, 2021
Muhammad Ali Explains Why He Refused to Fight in Vietnam
“My conscience won’t let me go shoot my brother… for big powerful America.”
by
Josh Jones
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Open Culture
on
May 5, 2021
Police and the License to Kill
Detroit police killed hundreds of unarmed Blacks during the civil rights movement. Their ability to get away with it shows why most proposals for police reform are bound to fail.
by
Matthew D. Lassiter
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Boston Review
on
April 28, 2021
How the Yazoo Land Scandal Changed American History
Without the now-obscure land investment affair, Georgia might have been a "super state."
by
Frank Jacobs
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Big Think
on
April 19, 2021
Two Women Researched Slavery in Their Family. They Didn’t See the Same Story.
Trying to learn more about a woman named Ann led her descendants to confront a painful past; ‘I just wanted to know the truth.’
by
Amy Dockser Marcus
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The Wall Street Journal
on
April 16, 2021
"Taxpayer Dollars:" The Origins of Austerity’s Racist Catchphrase
How the myth of the overburdened white taxpayer was made.
by
Camille Walsh
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Mother Jones
on
April 5, 2021
Islands in the Stream
Musicians are in peril, at the mercy of giant monopolies that profit off their work.
by
David Dayen
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The American Prospect
on
March 22, 2021
The Other Nuremberg Trials, Seventy-Five Years On
Failures in prosecuting German businesses who profited in Nazi Germany show how far Europe and America were willing to go to protect capitalism.
by
Erica X. Eisen
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Boston Review
on
March 22, 2021
Remembering the Uvalde Public School Walkout of 1970
During the heyday of the Chicano Movement, school walkouts were organized to disrupt what activists called “the ongoing mis-education of Chicano students.”
by
Alfredo R. Santos
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Ibero Aztlan
on
March 19, 2021
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Indigenous Advocacy Transformed the Fight Over Oil Drilling in the Arctic Refuge
Racial justice is now as much a part of the debate as environmentalism vs. oil drilling.
by
Finis Dunaway
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Made by History
on
March 14, 2021
The South’s Monuments Will Rise Again
The Confederate monuments did fall. But not permanently.
by
Erin L. Thompson
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Washington Post
on
March 5, 2021
Immigration: What We’ve Done, What We Must Do
Once, abolitionists had to imagine a world without slavery. Can we similarly envision a world where migrants are offered justice?
by
Allison Brownell Tirres
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Public Books
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March 2, 2021
partner
Britney Spears’s Plight Reflects a Long History of Men Controlling Women Stars
Since the 19th century, men have served as gatekeepers in the entertainment industry, controlling women’s careers.
by
Sara Lampert
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Made by History
on
February 24, 2021
Crusader for Justice
Ida B. Wells reported on lynching in the South, risking her own safety.
by
Deborah Gardner
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Amari Pollard
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Emily Sutton
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Southern Cultures
on
November 5, 2020
Howard Johnson’s, Host of the Bygone Ways
For more than seven decades American roads were dotted with the familiar orange roof and blue cupola of the ubiquitous Howard Johnson’s restaurants and Motor Lodges.
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Sometimes Interesting
on
October 15, 2020
The Unfinished Business of Women’s Suffrage
A century after the passage of the 19th Amendment, women with felony convictions remain disenfranchised.
by
Melissa Gira Grant
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The New Republic
on
August 10, 2020
Highway Robbery
How Detroit cops and courts steer segregation and drive incarceration.
by
Jade Chowning
,
Erin Keith
,
Geoff Leonard
via
ArcGIS StoryMaps
on
June 8, 2020
A Brief History of the Gig
The gig economy wasn’t built in a day.
by
Veena Dubal
via
Logic
on
April 27, 2020
Treasure Fever
The discovery of a lost shipwreck has pitted treasure hunters and archaeologists against each other, raising questions about who should control sunken riches.
by
Jill Neimark
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Hakai
on
January 14, 2020
partner
Citibank: Exploiting the Past, Condemning the Future
In 2011, Citigroup published a 300-page 200th anniversary commemoration Celebrating the Past, Defining the Future. Is it a past to celebrate?
by
Alan J. Singer
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HNN
on
November 3, 2019
partner
How Fear of the Measles Vaccine Took Hold
We’re still dealing with the repercussions of a discredited 1998 study that sowed fear and skepticism about vaccines.
via
Retro Report
on
October 15, 2019
Nonsmokers, Unite!
The complicated privilege of forming a new constituency.
by
Sarah Milov
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Lapham’s Quarterly
on
October 2, 2019
The University of Texas’s Secret Strategy to Keep Out Black Students
Long-hidden documents show the school’s blueprint for slowing integration during the civil-rights era.
by
Asher Price
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The Atlantic
on
September 19, 2019
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