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Amy Cooper calling the police on Christian Cooper, a Black birdwatcher.

Amy Cooper Played the Damsel in Distress. That Trope Has a Troubling History.

Purportedly protecting white women has justified centuries of racist violence — while doing little to actually protect white women.

by Mia Brett via Made By History on March 28, 2020

Why President Trump Used Lynching as a Metaphor

The long history of politicians claiming to be victims of lynching and racial violence.

by Lawrence B. Glickman via Made By History on October 23, 2019

A Lynch Mob of One

The assault rifle has enabled racists to act alone.

by Ibram X. Kendi via The Atlantic on August 8, 2019

How Sicilian Merchants in New Orleans Reinvented America’s Diet

In the 1830s, they brought lemons, commercial dynamism, and a willingness to fight elites.

by Justin Nystrom via Zócalo Public Square on June 20, 2019

Racial Terrorism and the Red Summer of 1919

The Red Summer represented one of the darkest and bloodiest moments in American history.

by Ben Railton via The Saturday Evening Post on June 19, 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

Maligned in Black and White

Southern newspapers played a major role in racial violence. Do they owe their communities an apology?

by Mark I. Pinsky via Poynter on May 8, 2019

The Secret History of Anti-Mexican Violence in Texas

In her groundbreaking new book, Monica Muñoz Martinez uncovers the legacy of a brutal past.

by Carlos Kevin Blanton via Texas Monthly on September 21, 2018

In the Hate of Dixie

Cynthia Tucker returns to her hometown of Monroeville, Alabama – also the hometown of Harper Lee, and the site of 17 lynchings.

by Cynthia Tucker via The Bitter Southerner on August 28, 2018

The View from Cottage Hill

History bleeds in Montgomery, Alabama.

by Siddhartha Mitter via Popula on August 23, 2018

Terrorized African-Americans Found Their Champion in Civil War Hero Robert Smalls

The congressman and former slave claimed whites had killed 53,000 African-Americans. Few took him seriously—until now.

by Lisa Elmaleh Douglas via Smithsonian on August 22, 2018

Black Radicalism’s Complex Relationship with Japanese Empire

Black intellectuals in the U.S.—from W. E. B. Du Bois to Marcus Garvey—had strong and divergent opinions on Japanese Empire.

by Mohammed Elnaiem via JSTOR Daily on July 18, 2018

Stop Calling it ‘The Great Migration’

For people of color watching over their shoulder, the fear of police interference harkens back to a historical moment with a much-too-benign label.

by Brentin Mock via CityLab on July 4, 2018

The History of Lynching and the Present of Policing

A new documentary on Michael Brown comes just in time.

by Khalil Gibran Muhammad via The Nation on May 17, 2018

Montgomery's Shame and Sins of the Past

The Montgomery Advertiser recognizes its own place in the history of racial violence in its own community.

via The Montgomery Advertiser on April 26, 2018

The Soul of W. E. B. Du Bois

Reflecting on the tremendous impact of "The Souls of Black Folk," on the 150th anniversary of Du Bois' birth.

by Ibram X. Kendi via The Paris Review on February 14, 2018

Calle de los Negros, circa 1886.

Calle de los Negros: L.A.'s "Forgotten" Street

How did Calle de los Negros get its name? And why did the city raze it in 1887?

by William D. Estrada via KCET on October 21, 2017

Hanged, Burned, Shot, Drowned, Beaten

In a region where symbols of the Confederacy are ubiquitous, an unprecedented memorial takes shape.

by Kriston Capps via The Atlantic on October 4, 2017

Regime Change in Charlottesville

If you understand why that Civil War statue really went up, the debate over removing it looks a lot different.

by Adam Goodheart via Politico Magazine on August 16, 2017

Charlottesville and the Trouble with Civil War Hypotheticals

Only by the most specific, immediate definition can we consider the Confederacy to have lost the Civil War.

by Jelani Cobb via The New Yorker on August 16, 2017

We Need to Talk About Digital Blackface in GIFs

Are you part of the problem?

by Lauren Michele Jackson via Teen Vogue on August 2, 2017

100 Years Ago African-Americans Marched Down Fifth Avenue to Declare That Black Lives Matter

Remembering the "Silent Protest Parade."

by Chad Williams via The Conversation on July 25, 2017

Bryan Stevenson Explains How It Feels To Grow Up Black Amid Confederate Monuments

"I think we have to increase our shame — and I don't think shame is a bad thing."

by Ezra Klein, Bryan Stevenson via Vox on May 24, 2017

Looking Back to Lincoln

During the Great Depression, Americans found solace in history.

by Fishko Files via WNYC on May 11, 2017

Left, a young Emmett Till. Right, Carolyn Bryant with her two young sons at Till's murder trial, 1955.

How Author Timothy Tyson Found the Woman at the Center of the Emmett Till Case

The woman whose testimony was central to the infamous case admits feeling 'tender sorrow.'

by Sheila Weller via Vanity Fair on January 26, 2017

The Tragic, Forgotten History of Black Military Veterans

The susceptibility of black ex-soldiers to extrajudicial murder and assault has long been recognized by historians.

by Peter C. Baker via The New Yorker on November 26, 2016

Soldiers in the 15th New York.

Lynching in America: Targeting Black Veterans

Black veterans were once targeted for racialized violence because of the equality with whites that their military service implied.

via Equal Justice Initiative on November 11, 2016

W.E.B. Du Bois.

Racial Violence in Black and White

From lynching photos to Black Lives Matter – what does it mean to look at images of African Americans being murdered?

by Benjamin Balthaser via Boston Review on July 13, 2016

America’s Lost History of Border Violence

Texas Rangers and vigilantes killed thousands of Mexican-Americans in a campaign of terror. Will Texas acknowledge the bloodshed?

by Rebecca Onion via Slate on May 5, 2016

K Troop

The untold story of the eradication of the original Ku Klux Klan.

by Matthew Pearl via Slate on March 4, 2016

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