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People protesting with signs to secure welfare rights.

The Welfare Rights Movement Wanted Society to Value the Work of Child-Rearing

The welfare rights movement of the 1960s and ’70s resisted invasive policies. Their animating vision: that society treat every mother and child with dignity.
by Annelise Orleck, Sasha Lilley via Jacobin on August 17, 2023
The community organizer Sylvester Hoover and Nikole Hannah-Jones, Greenwood, Mississippi; from episode 6 of The 1619 Project.

History Bright and Dark

Americans have often been politically divided. But have the divisions over how we recount our history ever been so deep?
by Adam Hochschild via New York Review of Books on May 2, 2023
Anna Julia Cooper, portrait sitting in a chair, and Mary Church Terrell, side portrait.

‘Moving Unapologetically to the Forefront’: How an Archive Is Preserving the Black Feminist Movement

The Black Woman’s Organizing Archive highlights work in the 19th and 20th centuries that benefitted Black women and American society as a whole.
by Daja E. Henry, Sabrina Evans, Shirley Moody-Turner via The 19th on March 8, 2023
SCLC leader Wyatt T. Walker and Jackie Robinson tour the ruins of Mount Olive Baptist Church, Sasser, Georgia, September 9th, 1962.

‘A Model Southern Sheriff’: Z.T. Mathews and the 1962 Fight for Voting Rights in Terrell County

A glaring portrait of the human cost of law enforcement officers who claim to be above the law.
by David Kurlander via CAFE on January 26, 2023
Agnes Wilkinson, Ahmeenah Young, and Aishah Shahidah Simmons.

Black Power Meets Police Power

The experiences of Michael and Zoharah Simmons show that the fight against the carceral state is embedded in a larger project of building a just world.
by Dan Berger via Inquest on January 24, 2023
Illustration of a happy Founder with flowers as eyes.

Happiness In America Isn’t What It Used to Be

"We have lost sight of some essential aspects of happiness that the founders clearly had in mind."
by Darrin M. McMahon via TIME on January 10, 2023
Cover of Ms. Magazine titled "Rage + Women = Power"

Ms. Magazine Turns 50

Looking back at half a century of truth-telling and rebelling.
via The Cut on January 3, 2023
The Supreme Court in 1904.

The Insular Cases Survive Because the American Legal System Keeps Them Safe

The justices’ decision not to hear challenges to the explicitly racist Insular Cases is part of a long tradition of favoring process over substance.
by Peter Shamshiri via Balls And Strikes on November 14, 2022
Painting of a person facing another person whose head is made up of sixteen little heads. Untitled (Study) by Geoff McFetridge.

Originalism’s Charade

Two new books make a devastating case against claims that the Constitution should be interpreted on the basis of its purported “original meaning.”
by David Cole via New York Review of Books on November 3, 2022
Drawing of people gathered around a speaker at the liberty tree.

The Letter That Helped Start a Revolution

The Town of Boston’s invention of the standing committee 250 years ago provided a means for building consensus during America’s nascent independence movement.
by Livia Gershon, William B. Warner via JSTOR Daily on November 2, 2022
Photograph of people admiring the statue dedicated to Bett Freeman.

Statue Honors Once-Enslaved Woman Who Won Freedom in Court

Bett Freeman's story and the legal precedent her case established are now forever remembered in Sheffield, Massachusetts.
by Mark Pratt via AP News on August 20, 2022
Map showing allotments to tribal citizens.

Sovereignty Is Not So Fragile

McGirt v. Oklahoma and the failure of denationalization.
by Noah Ramage via Perspectives on History on August 2, 2022
Two people wearing sunglasses peeking over a fence

Privacy Isn't in the Constitution – But It's Everywhere in Constitutional Law

The Supreme Court has found protections for people’s privacy in several constitutional amendments – and used it as a basis for some fundamental protections.
by Scott Skinner-Thompson via The Conversation on June 15, 2022
Photograph of Opal Lee.

"Grandmother of Juneteenth" Celebrates Federal Holiday -- But There Is More Work To Do

Before Juneteenth became an official federal holiday, 94-year-old Opal Lee was on a mission.
by Ashley Vaughan via CNN on June 6, 2022
The Lincoln Memorial with a crowd of people in front attending its dedication.

A Century Ago, the Lincoln Memorial's Dedication Underscored the Nation's Racial Divide

Seating was segregated, and the ceremony's only Black speaker was forced to drastically revise his speech to avoid spreading "propaganda."
by Kellie B. Gormly via Smithsonian on May 27, 2022
Picture of two warring sides of the abortion debate in a heated exchange.

The Myth That Roe Broke America

The debate over abortion is an important part of the story of polarization in American politics, but it is not its genesis.
by Adam Serwer via The Atlantic on May 18, 2022
Elderly woman holding a Gray Panthers sign. (from Wikimedia Commons)

Gray Panthers: Bending Bureaucracy and Building Power

The Gray Panthers empowered elderly people to see themselves as experts capable of disentangling convoluted bureaucracies.
by Maya Sandler via LPE Project on May 10, 2022
Photo of Jackie Robinson and Jacki Robinson Jr at the Youth March for Integrated Schools demonstration in Washington DC with Harry Belafonte.

Jackie Robinson, Pioneer of BDS

The Dodgers great didn’t just break Major League Baseball’s color line. He was also an activist whose legacy reaches from Brooklyn to South Africa to Palestine.
by Robert Ross via The Nation on April 15, 2022
Women in 1978 Equal Rights Amendment March hold a banner that reads "National ERA March for Ratification and Extension"

The 1978 Equal Rights Amendment March

On a broiling summer afternoon in 1978, the Women's Movement held what was then known as the largest parade for feminism in history.
by Henry Kokkeler via Boundary Stones on April 13, 2022
Nipsey Russell, Harry Belafonte, Coretta Scott King and Martin Luther King Jr. smiling and laughing.
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The Right to Joy and Pleasure is a Crucial Element of Racial Justice

Addressing systemic racism and state violence is not enough.
by Brence Pernell via Made By History on February 16, 2022
A close up picture of the beginning of the U.S. Constitution

The Constitution Was Meant to Guard Against Oligarchy

A new book aims to recover the Constitution’s pivotal role in shaping claims of justice and equality.
by Chris Lehmann via The New Republic on February 10, 2022
Picture of the U.S. Supreme Court

Reading the 14th Amendment

A review of three books about Abraham Lincoln, the 14th Amendment, and Reconstruction.
by Earl M. Maltz via National Review on February 3, 2022
Painting of the constitutional convention

Federalism and the Founders

The question of how to balance state and national power was perhaps the single most important and most challenging question confronting the early republic.
by Allen C. Guelzo via National Affairs on January 7, 2022
Brett Kavanaugh
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What Justice Kavanaugh Gets Wrong About Abortion and Neutrality

Calls for the court to remain neutral have long been tools for denying Americans rights.
by David Cohen, Maya Manian via Made By History on December 13, 2021
Black and white lithograph depicting the Founders signing the Declaration of Independence.

Have Americans Got George III All Wrong?

George III was a model monarch, whose reputation finally deserves rehabilitation a quarter of a millennium later.
by Andrew Roberts via The Spectator on November 18, 2021
1885 Map of St. Louis

Explore 'Mapping LGBTQ St. Louis'

This digital exploration of the region's LGBTQ community from 1946 to 1992 includes an interactive map and several thematic StoryMaps.
via Mapping LGBTQ St. Louis on September 27, 2021
A cowboy on a horse surrounded by grazing cows on open grassland.

A Short Political-Economic History of Property Rights in the American West

How the Tragedy of the Commons theory played out in reality.
by Mathias Bühler via Broadstreet on September 10, 2021

What Made the Battle of Blair Mountain the Largest Labor Uprising in American History

Its legacy lives on today in the struggles faced by modern miners seeking workers' rights.
by Abby Lee Hood via Smithsonian on August 25, 2021
Job seekers wait to be called into the Heartland Workforce Solutions office in Omaha last summer.
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How Cruelty Became the Point of Our Labor and Welfare Policies

Why do so many politicians think people only work if threatened or forced into doing so?
by Gail Savage via Made By History on May 26, 2021
A red gun and blue gun pointing in opposite directions, with flags spelling "We"

Originalism, Divided

The theory has not provided the clarity some of its early proponents had hoped it would.
by Harry Litman via The Atlantic on May 25, 2021
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