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The Fascinating Story of the Texas Archives War of 1842

The battle over where the papers of the Republic of Texas should reside reminds us of the politics of historical memory.
by Sheila McClear via Smithsonian on October 9, 2018
Newspaper cartoon of Ku Klux Klan

The Deadliest Massacre in Reconstruction-Era Louisiana Happened 150 Years Ago

In September 1868, Southern white Democrats hunted down around 200 African-Americans in an effort to suppress voter turnout.
by Lorraine Boissoneault via Smithsonian on September 28, 2018

How Small-Town Newspapers Ignored Local Lynchings

Sherilynn A. Ifill on justice (and its absence) in the 1930s.
by Sherilynn A. Ifill via Literary Hub on September 26, 2018

Bringing a Dark Chapter to Light: Maryland Confronts Its Lynching Legacy

While lynching is most closely associated with former Confederate states, hundreds were committed elsewhere in the country.
by Jonathan M. Pitts via Baltimore Sun on September 25, 2018

The Secret History of Anti-Mexican Violence in Texas

In her groundbreaking new book, Monica Muñoz Martinez uncovers the legacy of a brutal past.
by Carlos Kevin Blanton via Texas Monthly on September 21, 2018

Two Ways of Looking at the Bisbee Deportation

A century-old image and the film it inspired.
by Katherine Benton-Cohen, Robert Greene via Lapham’s Quarterly on August 30, 2018

Terrorized African-Americans Found Their Champion in Civil War Hero Robert Smalls

The congressman and former slave claimed whites had killed 53,000 African-Americans. Few took him seriously—until now.
by Lisa Elmaleh Douglas via Smithsonian on August 22, 2018
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The Train at Wood's Crossing

Piecing together the story of an 1898 lynching in a community that chose to forget most of the details.
by Brendan Wolfe via brendanwolfe.com on June 17, 2018

The Water War That Polarized 1920s California

When a "scofflaw carnival" occupied the L.A. aqueduct.
by Gary Krist via Literary Hub on May 17, 2018

What Happens When We Forget?

A documentary attempts to remember forgotten lynching victims.
by Lance Warren via Facing South on May 7, 2018

We’re the Good Guys, Right?

Marvel's heroes are back again, but with little of the subversive aura that once surrounded them.
by Daniel Immerwahr via n+1 on April 26, 2018

Remembering Native American Lynching Victims

Research shows that many more Native Americans were lynched than previously believed.
by Cecily Hilleary via VOA on April 25, 2018

The Lynching of Robert Prager

The high-water mark of the anti-immigrant and anti-German hysteria that gripped the nation during World War I.
by Jeff Manuel via We're History on April 5, 2018

The Most Dangerous Gay Man in America Fought Violence With Violence

Four decades ago, Raymond Broshears armed his disciples to keep LGBT people safe from violent homophobes.
by Eric Markowitz via Newsweek on January 25, 2018

The People's Grocery Lynching, Memphis, Tennessee

Thomas Moss’ lynching, like many others in the South, was a punishment for becoming an economic competitor to whites.
by Damon Mitchell via JSTOR Daily on January 24, 2018
KKK march in Washington in 1925.

The Second Klan

Linda Gordon’s new book captures how white supremacy has long been part of our political mainstream.
by Kevin M. Kruse via The Nation on December 13, 2017
Civil War rifles mounted on wall

The Brutal Origins of Gun Rights

A new history argues that the Second Amendment was intended to perpetuate white settlers' violence toward Native Americans.
by Patrick Blanchfield via The New Republic on December 11, 2017

Ku Klux Klambakes

What does the Klan of the 1920s have to teach us about the resurgence of organized bigotry in the Trump era?
by Adam Hochschild via New York Review of Books on December 7, 2017

The Massacre That Spelled the End of Unionized Farm Labor in the South for Decades

In 1887, African-American cane workers in Louisiana attempted to organize—and many paid with their lives.
by Calvin Schermerhorn via Smithsonian on November 21, 2017

How the KKK Shaped Modern Comic Book Superheroes

Masked men who take the law into their own hands.
by Chris Gavaler via Literary Hub on November 3, 2017

The Murderer Who Started a Movement

David Gunn’s murder was the first targeted killing of an abortion doctor in America. His killer now has an opportunity for parole.
by Dahlia Lithwick via Slate on October 31, 2017

Brian Tochterman on the 'Summer of Hell'

What E.B. White, Mickey Spillane, Death Wish, hip-hop, and the “Summer of Hell” have in common.
by Brian Tochterman, Sarah Cleary via UNC Press Blog on July 21, 2017

The Devastation of Black Wall Street

Racial violence destroyed an affluent African-American community, seen as a threat to white-dominated American capitalism.
by Kimberly Fain via JSTOR Daily on July 5, 2017

‘Hey Boy, You Want To Go See A Hangin’?’: A Lynching From A White Southerner’s View

You cannot have reconciliation without empathy. And you can’t have empathy unless people know the past pain that informs our present.
by Jonathan Capehart via Washington Post on June 9, 2017

‘We’re Truly Sorry’: Fla. Apologizes for Racial Injustice of 1949 ‘Groveland Four’ Rape Case

State lawmakers stand and face the families of four wrongly-convicted black men.
by Katie Mettler via Washington Post on April 19, 2017

Visualizing the Red Summer

A comprehensive digital archive, map, and timeline of riots and lynchings across the U.S. in 1919.
by Karen Sieber via Visualizing the Red Summer on October 16, 2016
Policemen with nightsticks dragging Black man down the street.

What the Kerner Report Got Wrong about Policing

The Kerner report neglected that police were not simply careless with black lives; they deliberately sought to punish black lives.
by Daniel Geary via Boston Review on May 19, 2016

America’s Lost History of Border Violence

Texas Rangers and vigilantes killed thousands of Mexican-Americans in a campaign of terror. Will Texas acknowledge the bloodshed?
by Rebecca Onion via Slate on May 5, 2016
Lithograph of the 1871 massacre of Chinese workers in California.

How Los Angeles Covered Up the Massacre of 17 Chinese

The greatest unsolved murders in Los Angeles' history, bloodier than the Black Dahlia, more vicious than the hit on Bugsy Siegel, occurred on a night in 1871.
by John Johnson Jr. via LA Weekly on March 10, 2011
Arthur Morgan from video game Red Dead Redemption 2 sporting a gun and cowboy hat.

Cult of the Cowboy: Inside the Toxic Adoration of an All-American Obsession

Video games, violence and the enduring allure of the vigilante hero.
by Rachel Wagner via Literary Hub on February 26, 2025
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