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A jar of soil from the burial site of Howard Cooper, dated 1885.

Now We Know Their Names

In Maryland, a memorial for two lynching victims reveals how America is grappling with its history of racial terror.
by Clint Smith via The Atlantic on February 2, 2022
A class in Public School No. 8 on King Street, in New York City, discusses a book titled “We Love America,” brought to school by one of the pupils.

How Picking On Teachers Became an American Tradition

And why spying on the “bums” has been terrible for schools.
by Adam Laats via Slate on January 28, 2022
Illustration of Paxton Gang attacking indigenous people.

Colonial Civility and Rage on the American Frontier

A 1763 massacre by colonial settlers exposed the the irreconcilable contradictions of conquest by people concerned with civility.
by Matthew Wills, Nicole Eustace via JSTOR Daily on January 23, 2022
A mural depicting the portrait of Ahmaud Arbery, on the side of a building.
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Trial of Arbery's Killers Hinges on Law that Originated in Slavery

Georgia enacted the Citizen's Arrest Law in an attempt to maintain control of enslaved people.
by Alan J. Singer via HNN on November 7, 2021
A police officer stands with another officer in front of a house, as a hand holding a speculum appears in the foreground.

How Women Were Made to Suffer for Their Abortions Before Roe v. Wade

Interrogated, examined, blackmailed: how law enforcement treated abortion-seeking women before Roe.
by Leslie J. Reagan via Slate on September 10, 2021
Chinese immigrants working in a market stop to pose for a photo

The California Klan’s Anti-Asian Crusade

Whereas southern Klansmen assaulted Black Americans and their white allies, western vigilantes targeted those they deemed a greater threat: Chinese immigrants.
by Kevin Waite via The Atlantic on April 6, 2021
Cover of Coast Magazine titled "Gays Fight Back! San Francisco's Lavender Vigilantes," featuring a man on the floor holding the leg of another man dressed in all black holding a gun.

Queer as Cop: Gay Patrol Units and the White Fantasy of Safety

In the 1970s, gay patrol units in San Francisco and New York City rallied around their whiteness to produce a sense of safety.
by Hugh Mac Neill via NOTCHES on February 2, 2021
Map of D.C showing where the murder took place

Where Is Dorsey Foultz?

When the D.C. Metropolitan Police failed to catch a murder suspect, white residents criticized and mocked. Black residents worried.
by Sarah A. Adler via Contingent on January 9, 2021
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Poll Watchers and the Long History of Voter Intimidation

President Trump has called on supporters, including law enforcement officers, to monitor election sites. Voter intimidation tactics have a long history.
via Retro Report on November 1, 2020

Police and Racist Vigilantes: Even Worse Than You Think

Is Trump a fascist? You should ask the same question of your local police.
by John Knefel via The American Prospect on September 10, 2020

The Free and the Brave

A patriotic parade, a bloody brawl, and the origins of U.S. law enforcement’s war on the political left.
by Bill Donahue via The Atavist on August 24, 2020
Book cover of "Ride the Devil's Herd," featuring a mustachioed man wearing a hat

Wyatt Earp Does Not Rest in Peace

A pair of new books about US Marshal Wyatt Earp are now out. Only one of them shoots straight.
by Allen Barra via Los Angeles Review of Books on August 19, 2020
Lithograph of a New York City street in 1830, bustling with pedestrians and horse-drawn carriages.

The Black New Yorker Who Led the Charge Against Police Violence in the 1830s

David Ruggles' fight against the "kidnapping club" in the 1830s shows that police violence has been part of America's DNA from its earliest days.
by Jonathan Daniel Wells via TIME on June 17, 2020
Statues of three men against a city backdrop

One Hundred Years Ago, a Lynch Mob Killed Three Men in Minnesota

The murders in Duluth offered yet another example that the North was no exception when it came to anti-black violence.
by Francine Uenuma via Smithsonian on June 10, 2020

In the Time of Monsters

Watchmen is a sophisticated inquiry into the ethical implications of its own form—the flash and bang, the prurience and violence of comic books.
by Namwali Serpell via New York Review of Books on March 19, 2020

Clipping the Devil's Rope

How barbed wire sparked a cowboy war and changed the American West.
by Andy Warner via The Nib on February 17, 2020
Police body cam

The American Tradition of Anti-Black Vigilantism

The history of patrols, body cams, and more.
by Darryl Pinckney via Literary Hub on November 18, 2019

The Vietnam Myth That Gave Us All Those ‘Rambo’ Movies

For decades, conspiracy theorists have clung to the fiction that thousands of soldiers are being held captive in Asia.
by Nathan Smith via The Outline on September 20, 2019

When New Yorkers Burned Down a Quarantine Hospital

On September 1st, 1858, a mob stormed the New York Marine Hospital in Staten Island, and set fire to the building.
by Matthew Wills, Kathryn Stephenson via JSTOR Daily on September 19, 2019

White Power

A review of two recent books about white paramilitarism in the wake of the Cold War.
by Thomas Meaney via London Review of Books on August 1, 2019
Black men confront armed whites in a Chicago street.

Hundreds of Black Deaths in 1919 are Being Remembered

America in the summer of 1919 ran red with blood from racial violence, and yet today, 100 years later, not many people know it even happened.
by Jesse J. Holland via AP News on July 24, 2019

The Deadly Race Riot ‘Aided and Abetted’ by the Washington Post a Century Ago

A front-page article helped incite the violence in the nation’s capital that left as many as 39 dead.
by Gillian Brockell via Retropolis on July 15, 2019
Label for Venere brand lemons, featuring a woman wearing lemon flowers in her hair and picking the fruit.

How Sicilian Merchants in New Orleans Reinvented America’s Diet

In the 1830s, they brought lemons, commercial dynamism, and a willingness to fight elites.
by Justin Nystrom via Zócalo Public Square on June 20, 2019

The Wild West Meets the Southern Border

At first glance, frontier towns near the U.S.-Mexico border seem oblivious both of history and of the current political reality.
by Valeria Luiselli via The New Yorker on June 3, 2019

The Mob Violence of the Red Summer

In 1919, a brutal outburst of mob violence was directed against African Americans across the United States. White, uniformed servicemen led the charge.
by David F. Krugler, Matthew Wills via JSTOR Daily on May 14, 2019

Necessary to the Security of a Free State

On the history of the second amendment, white militias, and border vigilantism.
by Angelo Guisado via Current Affairs on May 8, 2019

Maligned in Black and White

Southern newspapers played a major role in racial violence. Do they owe their communities an apology?
by Mark I. Pinsky via Poynter on May 8, 2019
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How ‘The Highwaymen’ Whitewashes Frank Hamer and the Texas Rangers

The film’s hero left a legacy of racist violence in Texas.
by Monica Muñoz Martinez via Made By History on March 31, 2019
Painting of cavalry with swords drawn heading into U.S.-Mexico War battle.

American Extremism Has Always Flowed from the Border

Donald Trump says there is “a crisis of the soul” at the border. He is right, though not in the way he thinks.
by Greg Grandin via Boston Review on January 9, 2019

Who Writes History? The Fight to Commemorate a Massacre by the Texas Rangers

When the descendants of a 1918 massacre applied for a historical marker, they learned that not everyone wants to remember one of Texas’ darkest days.
by Daniel Blue Tyx via The Texas Observer on November 26, 2018
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