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"Poor Whites Have Been Written out of History for a Very Political Reason"

For generations, Southern white elites have been terrified of poor whites and black workers joining hands.
by Keri Leigh Merritt, Robert Greene II via Jacobin on August 24, 2019

The Political Chaos and Unexpected Activism of the Post-Civil War Era

Charles Postel on the temperance crusade that galvanized the American women's movement.
by Charles Postel via Literary Hub on August 21, 2019
1857 map of the United States, showing slave versus free states.

How Slavery Doomed Limited Government in America

It made it impossible to limit the size and scope of the federal government. Conservatives need to recognize that.
by Philip Klein via Washington Examiner on August 20, 2019

The Language of the Unheard

A new book rescues the Poor People’s Campaign from its reputation as a desperate last cry of the civil rights movement.
by Robert Greene II via The Nation on May 20, 2019

Mass Incarceration Didn't Start with the War on Crime

A review of "City of Inmates" by Kelly Lytle Hernández.
by Llana Barber via The Metropole on April 24, 2019

Why We Need a New Civil War Documentary

The success and brilliance of the new PBS series on Reconstruction is a reminder of the missed opportunity facing the nation.
by Keri Leigh Merritt via Smithsonian on April 23, 2019
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The Faces of Racism

A history of blackface and minstrelsy in American culture.
via BackStory on February 8, 2019
Screen shot from Red Dead Redemption 2, of a man in western clothing smoking a cigarette.

Red Dead Redemption 2 Confronts the Racist Past and Lets You Do Something About It

Poke around the game’s fictional South and you’ll find cross-burning Klansmen, whom you are free to kill.
by Jonathan S. Jones via Slate on February 4, 2019

The Settler Fantasies Woven Into the Prairie Dresses

The fashion trend is shorn entirely of the racism and colonial entitlement it once cloaked.
by Peggy O'Donnell via Jezebel on January 30, 2019

The New Congress and the History of Governing by a House Divided

What do the results of the 2018 midterms portend for the next two years?
by Brooks Simpson via The Conversation on January 2, 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.

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

W. E. B. Du Bois and the American Environment

Du Bois's ideas about the environment — and how Jim Crow shaped them — have gone relatively unnoticed by environmental historians.
by Brian McCammack via Edge Effects on September 25, 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

"Though Declared to be American Citizens"

The Colored Convention Movement, black citizenship, and the Fourteenth Amendment.
by Andrew K. Diemer via Muster on July 11, 2018
Ta-Nehisi Coates.

The Afro-Pessimist Temptation

An examination of the tragic echoes of Reconstruction-era politics following Obama's presidency.
by Darryl Pinckney via New York Review of Books on May 23, 2018

The Racist History of the ‘Crisis Actor’ Attacks on Parkland School Shooting Survivors

Courageous Americans have been undermined by conspiracy theories for more than 150 years.
by Michael E. Miller via Retropolis on February 23, 2018
Whites at a Trump campaign rally.

Does the White Working Class Really Vote Against Its Own Interests?

Trump has revived an age-old debate about why some people choose race over class—and how far they will go to protect the system.
by Joshua Zeitz via Politico Magazine on December 31, 2017

Coates and West in Jackson

America loves pitting black intellectuals against each other, but today's activists need both Coates and West.
by Robin D. G. Kelley via Boston Review on December 22, 2017

Street Fighting Woman

A new biography of Lucy Parsons makes it clear that the activist deserves attention apart from her more well-known husband.
by Eric Foner via New York Review of Books on December 21, 2017
A prison cell with a television tuned to election coverage.
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Why Felon Disenfranchisement Doesn't Violate the Constitution

The justification can be found in an obscure section of the Fourteenth Amendment.
by Sara Mayeux on December 21, 2017
Robert E. Lee statue

The Fight Over Virginia’s Confederate Monuments

How the state’s past spurred a racial reckoning.
by Benjamin Wallace-Wells via The New Yorker on December 4, 2017

Let’s Relitigate the Civil War

There can be no "compromise" with the false view of America's past from Trumpists and pop historians alike.
by Jeet Heer via The New Republic on November 1, 2017

What the Civil Rights Movement Has to Do With Denim

The history of blue jeans has been whitewashed.
by Marlen Komar via Racked on October 30, 2017

Civil War Life in all its Day-to-Day Contrasts

In his latest work of history, Edward Ayers captures daily life along with the military and political moves.
by James Oakes via Washington Post on October 27, 2017
Illustration of the folk hero, John Henry, face down with a hammer in his hand.

A History of American Protest Music: This Is the Hammer That Killed John Henry

How a folk hero inspired one of the most covered songs in American history.
by Tom Maxwell via Longreads on October 4, 2017

Inside the Founding Fathers’ Debate Over What Constituted an Impeachable Offense

If not for three sparring Virginia delegates, Congress’s power to remove a president would be even more limited.
by Erick Trickey via Smithsonian on October 2, 2017

The Man the Presidency Changed

What a forgotten commander in chief can teach Donald Trump.
by Scott S. Greenberger via Politico Magazine on September 11, 2017
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Ending DACA Isn’t About the Rule of Law. It’s About Race.

The federal government has long extended amnesty to white Americans.
by Christopher F. Petrella via Made By History on September 6, 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
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