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Collage of George W. Bush, the towers on 9/11, and government documents.

Secret 9/11 Memo Reveals Bush Rewriting The History of The 9/11 Attacks

In a 2004 interview, then-President George W. Bush told the 9/11 Commission that he didn't know Al Qaeda had plans to strike the US. Records show otherwise.
by Mattathias Schwartz via Insider on November 30, 2022
Photograph of San Francisco Supervisor Dan White standing behind the counter of his fast-food restaurant, the Hot Potato, in October 1978.

How San Francisco (?!) Helped Give Birth to Modern American Fascism

Remember Dan White? He was the Kyle Rittenhouse of his day. No wonder Tucker Carlson loves him.
by David Masciotra via The New Republic on September 30, 2022
Photograph of candles, bouquets and signs left at a memorial for the Buffalo Shooting victims, May 2022.
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The Buffalo Shooting Exposes How History Shapes the Present

This northern city was shaped by racial terrorism and persistent advocacy for Black liberation.
by Chad Williams via Made By History on May 17, 2022
A woman lights a candle at a memorial for the Buffalo shooting victims, May 2022.
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The Mass Shooting in Buffalo Reflects Deeply Rooted American Ideas

Until we grapple with our history, white supremacist terrorism will keep happening.
by Jesse Curtis via Made By History on May 16, 2022
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Extremism in America: Out of the Shadows

According to experts who monitor the radical right, the white supremacist ideology that police say drove the Buffalo gunman has begun moving into the mainstream.
via Retro Report on May 12, 2022
Firefighters looking at the wreckage of a burned Black church.
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Extremism in America: Missed Warnings

In the years before Barack Obama was elected, many groups on the extreme right kept a relatively low profile. With the election of a Black president, that changed.
via Retro Report on May 3, 2022
Donald Rumsfeld in Kandahar, Afghanistan, in 2005 (Jim Young-Pool/Getty Images).

Lasting Cruelties

A new book situates the War on Terror as a story of domination which traces back to the founding of the US as a settler-colonial and slaveholding behemoth.
by Lyle Jeremy Rubin via Dissent on March 30, 2022
Ahsanullah "Bobby" Khan, wearing a t-shirt that says "Deportee."

Return To Little Pakistan: Bobby Khan v. The Police

An immigrant born to working-class activism stands up to an NYPD reborn in the CIA's image.
by Spencer Ackerman via Forever Wars on September 14, 2021
Person looking at 9/11 museum

What the 9/11 Museum Remembers, and What It Forgets

Twenty years after the attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, the museum is still struggling to address the legacy of those events.
by Emily Witt via The New Yorker on September 9, 2021
Blood over image of Afghan security in Kabul

The War on Terror: 20 Years of Bloodshed and Delusion

From the beginning, the War on Terror merged red-hot vengeance with calculated opportunism. Millions are still paying the price.
by Tariq Ali via The Nation on September 7, 2021
A 9/11 memorial

Relic Steel

After 9/11, hundreds of pieces of steel debris were catalouged. Much of it ended up in small municipal memorials and in other locations around the country.
by Max Holleran, Samuel Holleran via Places Journal on September 1, 2021
National September 11 Memorial & Museum

We Need to Reform the September 11 Museum

Approaching the 20th anniversary of the attacks, the National September 11 Memorial & Museum at the World Trade Center faces a reckoning.
by Todd Fine, Asad Dandia via Hyperallergic on August 1, 2021
Two hooded KKK members

The Ku Klux Klan Was Also a Bosses’ Association

The KKK violently resisted the revolutionary gains of the Civil War and Reconstruction, and sought to keep the black masses toiling in submission.
by Chad Pearson via Jacobin on July 27, 2021
Redacted declassified Top Secret memorandum written by Oliver North on Jack Terrel, terrorist suspect.

Iran-Contra and Domestic Counter-Intelligence Networks

Oliver North and his cronies in the Contra support operations put in motion a clandestine counter-intelligence apparatus to disrupt the flow of information.
by Edmund Berger via Reciprocal Contradiction on May 19, 2021
A man during the Capitol Siege holding a Confederate flag.

The Case for a Third Reconstruction

The enduring lesson of American history is that the republic is always in danger when white supremacist sedition and violence escape justice.
by Manisha Sinha via New York Review of Books on February 3, 2021

Meet Joseph Rainey, the First Black Congressman

Born enslaved, he was elected to Congress in the wake of the Civil War. But the impact of this momentous step in U.S. race relationships did not last long.
by Bobby J. Donaldson via Smithsonian on January 4, 2021
Pro-Trump protester.
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The True Danger of Trump and His Media Allies Denying the Election Results

Misinformation and conspiracy theories can foment violence and thwart democracy.
by William Horne via Made By History on November 19, 2020
Illustration of a black man laying on the ground while three men step on him, 1868.

Echoes of the Reconstruction Era: The Political Violence of 1868

The 1868 Election was the first one in which hundreds of thousands of African American men voted. It also began an unfortunate history of voter suppression.
by Patrick Young via Emerging Civil War on November 6, 2020
A black and white photo of an African American man.

A White Mob Unleashed the Worst Election Day Violence in U.S. History in Florida a Century Ago

In the small town of Ocoee, Fla., a racist mob went on a rampage after a Black man tried to cast his ballot on Nov. 2, 1920.
by Gillian Brockell via Retropolis on November 2, 2020
Donald Trump at a rally
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Trump’s Rhetoric About the Election Channels a Dark Episode From Our Past

The only coup in American history came after scare-mongering that wouldn't sound out of place in 2020.
by David Gessner via Made By History on October 22, 2020

Blood & Fire: The Bombing of Wall Street, 100 Years Later

When a converted ice cream wagon blew up in Wall Street, it was the loudest burst in a war between the Federal government and American Anarchists.
by Nathan Ward via CrimeReads on September 16, 2020
Two pool chairs next to an indoor pool decorated to look like a tropical island beach.

Deceptively Bright, in an Up and Coming Area

Private bunkers and the people who build them.
by Will Wiles via Literary Review on July 1, 2020

Birmingham’s ‘Fifth Girl’

Sarah Collins Rudolph survived the 1963 church bombing that killed her sister and three other girls. She's still waiting on restitution and an apology.
by Sydney Trent via Washington Post on March 6, 2020

The Roots of Anti-Racist, Anti-Fascist Resistance in the US

Robin D.G. Kelley on the predecessors to Antifa.
by Robin D. G. Kelley via Literary Hub on March 6, 2020
A tattered newspaper with headlines about lynching.

The Wind Delivered the News

I live in a place where the wind blows history into my path.
by Josina Guess via The Bitter Southerner on February 27, 2020

The Decade America Terrorized Itself

The next 9/11 never came. Instead, we got Sandy Hook, and Las Vegas, and Parkland…
by Patrick Blanchfield via Gen on December 10, 2019

The Massacre That Spawned the Alt-Right

Forty years ago, a gang of Klansmen and Nazis murdered five communists in broad daylight. America has never been the same.
by Peter Keating, Shaun Assael via Politico Magazine on November 3, 2019
A rope used to lynch Raymond Byrd.

So You Want to Talk about Lynching? Understand This First.

If you are unwilling to do this work — and it is work — then leave that word alone.
by Michele Norris via Washington Post on October 23, 2019

‘We May Have to Shoot Down This Aircraft’

What the chaos aboard Flight 93 on 9/11 looked like to the White House and the fighter pilots prepared to ram the plane's cockpit.
by Garrett M. Graff via Politico Magazine on September 11, 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
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