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When Kansas Was Bleeding

How the territory became the frontline of the battle for abolition.

by Tristan J. Tarwater, Chelsea Saunders via The Nib on April 22, 2019

Muslims Arrived in America 400 Years Ago and Today are Vastly Diverse

Islamophobes today ignore the long history and contributions of Muslim Americans.

by Saeed Ahmed Khan via The Conversation on April 11, 2019

This Could Be the First Slavery Reparations Policy in America

Georgetown University students consider a fund to benefit descendants of 272 slaves sold by the school nearly two centuries ago.

by Jesús A. Rodríguez via Politico Magazine on April 9, 2019

Here’s Every Defense of the Electoral College — and Why They’re All Wrong

Most of the arguments for preserving our insane system are morally odious, unsubstantiated, and/or factually incorrect.

by Eric Levitz via Intelligencer on March 20, 2019

Empire of the Census

America’s long history of manipulating its headcount for political gain.

by Ed Burmila via The Baffler on March 1, 2019

Andrew Jackson

Andrew Jackson: Our First Populist President

He never denounced slavery and was brutal towards American Indians, but remains a popular figure. Why?

by Jeff Taylor via The American Conservative 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

In "The Haunting of Lin-Manuel Miranda," Ishmael Reed Revives an Old Debate

If “Hamilton” is subversive, the mischievous Reed asks, what is it subverting?

by Hua Hsu via The New Yorker on January 9, 2019

Atlas Weeps

Alan Greenspan and Adrian Wooldridge’s strange elegy for capitalism.

by Kim Phillips-Fein via The Nation on December 12, 2018

Patriot Propaganda

A new book argues that race and racism fueled the fires of the American Revolution.

by Gautham Rao via Society for U.S. Intellectual History on November 25, 2018

How the Supreme Court Fractured the Nation — and How It Threatens to Do So Again

Abortion and America’s new sectional divide.

by H. W. Brands via Made By History on November 20, 2018

Appalachian Whiteness: A History that Never Existed

The “fetishization” of Appalachia’s supposed racial and ethnic purity and Trump's proposal to end birthright citizenship.

by Timothy Pratt via 100 Days in Appalachia on November 19, 2018

The Myth of a Southern Democracy

Voter suppression tactics have roots in Southern history dating to the Antebellum era.

by Keri Leigh Merritt via The Bitter Southerner on November 1, 2018

The Real Origins of Birthright Citizenship

Its purpose 150 years ago was to incorporate former slaves into the nation.

by Martha S. Jones via The Atlantic on October 31, 2018

African American prison laborers.

A School District Wants to Relocate the Bodies of 95 Black Forced-Labor Prisoners

A school district owns the property where the bodies of 95 black convict-lease prisoners from Jim Crow era were buried.

by Meagan Flynn via Washington Post on October 25, 2018

"The Most Potent Money Power": Slave Traders, Dark Money, and Elections

In the midst of the secession crisis, Unionists accused slave traders of waging an assault on democracy.

by Robert K. D. Colby via Muster on October 19, 2018

In the Dismal Swamp

Though Donald Trump has made it into a catchphrase, he didn’t come up with the metaphor “drain the swamp.”

by Sam Worley via Popula on September 20, 2018

The First Floridians

In St. Augustine lie the ruins of Fort Mose, built in 1738 as the first free black settlement in what would become the United States.

by Jordan Blumetti via The Bitter Southerner on September 3, 2018

The Legacy of Black Reconstruction

Du Bois's "Black Reconstruction in America" showed that the black freedom struggle has always been one for radical democracy.

by Robert Greene II via Jacobin on August 27, 2018

Robert E. Lee surrendering to Ulysses Grant.

Why Some White Americans see Racial Equality as Oppression

White victimhood's roots in the Civil War.

by Martha Hodes via Made By History on August 27, 2018

An Outline of Over 200 Years of Silhouettes

The oldest object on view shows on brown paperboard one of the earliest known images of a slave in the U.S.

by Claire Voon via Hyperallergic on August 13, 2018

Pride and Prejudice? The Americans Who Fly the Confederate Flag

A listening tour in Mississippi asks flag supporters why they still support a symbol that represents pain, division and difficult history.

by Donna Ladd via The Guardian on August 6, 2018

Colonialism Did Not Just Create Slavery: It Changed Geology

Researchers suggest effects of the Colonial Era can be detected in rocks or even air.

by Robin McKie via The Guardian on June 10, 2018

The Issue on the Table: Is 'Hamilton' Good for History?

In a new book, top historians discuss the musical’s educational value, historical accuracy and racial revisionism.

by Kate Keller via Smithsonian on May 30, 2018

Rarely Seen 19th-Century Silhouette of a Same-Sex Couple Living Together Goes On View

A new show, featuring the paper cutouts, reveals unheralded early Americans.

by Roger Catlin via Smithsonian on May 25, 2018

Map of the arms trade.

The Roots of America’s Gun Culture

How 18th-century British arms sales, the slave trade, and the Revolutionary War contributed to the mess we have today.

by Priya Satia, Isaac Chotiner via Slate on April 19, 2018

Civil War era envelope with a political cartoon with Confederate leaders hung as traitors.

When the Government Refused to Use Slavery to Recruit Soldiers, the Media Had No Qualms

With questionable motives, America finally saw black Union soldiers living and dying alongside their white countrymen.

by Brendan Seibel via Timeline on April 17, 2018

Pushing the Dual Emancipation Thesis Beyond its Troublesome Origins

"Masterless Men" shows how poor whites benefited from slavery's end, but does not diminish the experiences of the enslaved.

by Adrienne Petty via Black Perspectives on March 8, 2018

Anthony Burns

Sanctuary-City Advocates Are Like Abolitionists – Not Secessionists

A history lesson for attorney general Jeff Sessions.

by Judith Giesberg via Made By History on March 6, 2018

Still from Black Panther

How 'Black Panther' Taps Into 500 Years of History

The film draws on centuries of black dreams of independence to create Wakanda.

by N. D. B. Connolly via The Hollywood Reporter on February 16, 2018

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