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Photograph of Robert E. Lee standing alone in front of a door.

The Mystery of Robert E. Lee

He prized self-control above all, but did not always achieve it.

by Allen C. Guelzo via National Review on September 17, 2020

A picture of Bill Russell

Racism Is Not a Historical Footnote

Without justice for all, none of us are free.

by Bill Russell via The Players' Tribune on September 14, 2020

The Argument of “Afropessimism”

Frank B. Wilderson III sketches a map of the world in which Black people are everywhere integral but always excluded.

by Vinson Cunningham via The New Yorker on July 13, 2020

1975 digital camera prototype

How the Digital Camera Transformed Our Concept of History

We’re capturing the mundane as well as the memorable.

by Allison Marsh via IEEE Spectrum on June 30, 2020

The Ancestry Project

Sometimes I learned more Black history in a week at home than I did in a lifetime of Februarys at school.

by Mariah Stovall via The Paris Review on June 29, 2020

Why Did It Take So Long to Set Aunt Jemima Free?

PepsiCo’s move to end the racist brand comes shamefully late.

by Michele Norris via Washington Post on June 17, 2020

Death Can’t Take the Stories Our Elders Pass On

The pandemic doesn’t just threaten our loved ones, but knowledge of our past — so Nelson George went and found his.

by Nelson George via Medium on April 21, 2020

Bad Romance

The afterlife of Vivian Gornick's "The Romance of American Communism" shows that we bear the weight of dead generations—and sometimes living ones, too.

by Alyssa Battistoni via Dissent on April 13, 2020

What We Can Learn From 1918 Influenza Diaries

These letters and journals offer insights on how to record one's thoughts amid a pandemic.

by Meilan Solly via Smithsonian on April 13, 2020

The Broken Road of Peggy Wallace Kennedy

All white Southerners live with the sins of their fathers. But what if your dad was one of the most famous segregationists in history?

by Frye Gaillard via The Bitter Southerner on January 6, 2020

Before And After

The allegations against Michael Jackson make listening to his songs a struggle, one that resists the comfort those songs once provided.

by Ann Powers via NPR on December 11, 2019

All Good Things Must Begin

On the self-preservation, testimonies, and solace found in the diaries of black women writers.

by Tarisai Ngangura via Lapham’s Quarterly on December 8, 2019

A microphone surrounded by multiple pairs of eyes against a brick background.

Cut Me Loose

A personal account of how one young woman travels to South Carolina in search of her family history and freedom narrative.

by Joshunda Sanders via Oxford American on November 19, 2019

Art of angels walking through thick forest.

When ‘Angels in America’ Came to East Texas

Twenty years ago my hometown made national headlines when the local college staged an internationally acclaimed play about gay men and the AIDS crisis.

by Wes Ferguson via Texas Monthly on October 14, 2019

Video Games Can Bring Older Family Members' Personal History Back to Life

How video game designers are 'gaminiscing' World War II stories.

by Bob De Schutter via The Conversation on September 18, 2019

A clue and black clay figuring with a Sony Watchman attached as its "head."

Please, My Digital Archive. It’s Very Sick.

Our past on the internet is disappearing before we can make it history.

by Tanner Howard via Lapham’s Quarterly on September 4, 2019

The Great Land Robbery

The shameful story of how 1 million black families have been ripped from their farms.

by Vann R. Newkirk II via The Atlantic on August 12, 2019

The Breaks of History

We might say that these books are recording a life with music, and that they are worth listening to.

by Robert Cashin Ryan via Public Books on July 29, 2019

Apollo 11 Capsule Foil and Memories of Plucking NASA’s Moonmen From the Sea

A recollection of a NASA employee's experiences with Apollo 11 and 12.

by David Porter II, Lisa Hix via Collectors Weekly on July 12, 2019

Are You a Seg Academy Alum, Too? Let’s Talk.

Reflecting on the impact of an education in an institution deliberately set up to defy court-ordered desegregation.

by Ellen Ann Fentress via The Bitter Southerner on June 7, 2019

Illustration of a Black man in an overcoat and a winter hat with earflaps.

Homeland Insecurity

Mystery sorrounds the life of alumnus Homer Smith, who spent decades on an international odyssey to find a freedom in a place he could call home.

by Jack El-Hai via University of Minnesota on May 31, 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

When the Black Panthers Came to Algeria

In "Algiers, Third World Capital," Elaine Mokhtefi captures a world of camaraderie, shared ideals, and frequent miscommunication.

by Elias Rodriques via The Nation on May 7, 2019

A young boy watches a man play the guitar.

How Eudora Welty’s Photography Captured My Grandmother’s History

Natasha Trethewey on experiencing a past not our own.

by Natasha Trethewey via Literary Hub on May 7, 2019

A Very Great Change

The 1868 presidential election through the eyes of a Southern white woman.

by Stephanie McCurry via Lapham’s Quarterly on April 16, 2019

Vessel of Antiquity

Influence, invention, and the legacy of Leon Redbone.

by Megan Pugh via Oxford American on March 19, 2019

Portrait of Jim Nicholson.

Jim Nicholson, Champion of the Common-Man Obituary, Dies at 76

“Who would you miss more when he goes on vacation,” Nicholson liked to ask, “the secretary of state or your garbage man?”

by Adam Berstein via Washington Post on February 23, 2019

Unnamed Black girl.

An Unnamed Girl, a Speculative History

What a photograph reveals about the lives of young black women at the turn of the century.

by Saidiya Hartman via The New Yorker on February 9, 2019

How 'Green Book' And The Hollywood Machine Swallowed Donald Shirley Whole

Why relatives of the musician depicted in "Green Book" called the film “a symphony of lies.”

by Brooke Obie via Shadow and Act on December 14, 2018

Instagram's Aids Memorial: ‘History Does Not Record Itself’

The Instagram feed where friends and family post tributes to loved ones who died of Aids-related illnesses has become an extraordinary compendium of lost lives.

by Kate Kellaway via The Guardian on November 4, 2018

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