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Photograph of Mike Mahoney on the White House grounds.

Blood and Vanishing Topsoil

“We’re the virus.” So read a tweet in March praising reports of less pollution in countries under COVID-19 lockdown. By mid-April, it had nearly 300,000 likes.
by Alex Amend via Political Research Associates on July 9, 2020

Confederate Statues Were Never Really About Preserving History

A series of graphs that help explain why at least 830 monuments were erected many decades after the end of the Civil War.
by Ryan Best via FiveThirtyEight on July 8, 2020
Collage of a photo of the mayor superimposed on a photo of a large KKK rally in a stadium.

The Los Angeles Mayor Who Was Also a KKK Leader

In 1929, Mayor Porter was part of a long history of city figures who perpetuated white supremacy as a foundational and systemic ideal.
by Blazedale via L. A. Taco on July 8, 2020
Protesters, one holding a Black Lives Matter sign, stand under the Confederate monument carved into Stone Mountain.

Hatred Set in Stone

The Confederate memorial carving at Georgia’s Stone Mountain is etched with more than a century of racist history. But tearing it down won’t be so easy.
by Rebecca Onion via Slate on July 8, 2020
Black and white STFU members including Myrtle Lawrence and Ben Lawrence listen to Norman Thomas speak outside Parkin, Arkansas, on September 12, 1937. Louise Boyle / Kheel Center

When Black Sharecroppers in the South Rose Up

In the 1930s, Socialist and Communist organizers tried to help Black sharecroppers rise up against their oppressors.
by Arvind Dilawar, Nan Elizabeth Woodruff via Jacobin on July 7, 2020
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"It Has Not Been My Habit to Yield"

Charles Sumner and the fight for equal naturalization rights.
by Lucy E. Salyer via HNN on July 5, 2020
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What Woodrow Wilson Did to Robert Smalls

We all know, in the abstract, that Wilson was a white supremacist. But here’s how he wielded his racism against one accomplished Black American.
by Aderson François via The New Republic on July 3, 2020
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Yes, President Trump, Confederate Base Names Celebrate Heritage — a Shameful One

Why removing the names of Confederates from military bases matters.
by Chad Williams via Made By History on July 2, 2020

The Confederates Loved America, and They’re Still Defining What Patriotism Means

The ideology of the men who celebrated the United States while fighting for its dissolution is still very much alive.
by Richard Kreitner via The New Republic on June 30, 2020

Asian Americans Are Still Caught in the Trap of the ‘Model Minority’ Stereotype

Generations of Asian Americans have struggled to prove an Americanness that should not need to be proven.
by Viet Thanh Nguyen via TIME on June 26, 2020
Collage of military uniforms and a Confederate general over a photo of troops training on a military base.

The Lost Cause’s Long Legacy

Why does the U.S. Army name its bases after generals it defeated?
by Michael Paradis via The Atlantic on June 26, 2020
Part of the pedestal of a monument, inscribed with the words "Bright angels come and guard our sleeping heroes."

The Even Uglier Truth Behind Athens Confederate Monument

It was intended to be a tool of political power, sending a message against Black voting and serving as a gathering point for the Ku Klux Klan.
by Scott Reynolds Nelson via Muster on June 23, 2020

The Confederacy Was an Antidemocratic, Centralized State

The actual Confederate States of America was a repressive state devoted to white supremacy.
by Stephanie McCurry via The Atlantic on June 21, 2020
A man adjusts a protest sign at the base of the Confederate memorial known as the “Lost Cause” in Decatur, Ga.
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Removing Lost Cause Monuments Is The First Step in Dismantling White Supremacy

African American activists have long coupled these efforts with fighting against racist laws and racial violence.
by Ashleigh Lawrence-Sanders via Made By History on June 19, 2020

The History That James Baldwin Wanted America to See

For Baldwin, the past had always been bent in service of a lie. Could a true story be told?
by Eddie S. Glaude Jr. via The New Yorker on June 19, 2020
Protesters in front of a Confederate monument hold a banner that reads "Take the statue down."

Ole Miss’s Monument to White Supremacy

New evidence shows what the 30-foot-tall Confederate memorial was actually meant to commemorate.  
by Anne Twitty via The Atlantic on June 19, 2020
New York Police Department logo on the side of a car.

Why Are NYPD Cruisers Playing the Ice Cream Truck Jingle?

The melody occupies a niche space at the intersection of ice cream, entertainment, and Black history.
by Luke Fater via Atlas Obscura on June 16, 2020

Why the Confederate Flag Flew During World War II

As white, southern troops raised the battle flag, they showed that they were fighting for change abroad—but the status quo at home.
by Matt Delmont via The Atlantic on June 14, 2020
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Changing Hearts and Minds Won’t Stop Police Violence

The way Americans have long discussed racism is a huge part of the problem.
by Matt Delmont via Made By History on June 5, 2020
Statue of George Washington with an American flag tied to his face to cover his nose and mouth, like a covid mask or a gag.

Direct Action and the Rejection of Monumental History

As people have gathered across the country to oppose police violence, they have targeted statues, monuments, and buildings commemorating white supremacy.
by Jacob F. Lee, Mathew E. Stanley via CounterPunch on June 5, 2020
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The Police Chief Who Inspired Trump’s Tweet Glorifying Violence

Trump echoed a former Miami police chief’s anti-black words and animus.
by Julio Capó Jr. via Made By History on June 1, 2020

Confederate Monuments Haunt American Democracy

Why Southerners protesting structural racism in the criminal justice system have turned time and again to the monuments in their communities.
by Karen L. Cox via CNN on June 1, 2020
Vic Reynolds, director of the Georgia Bureau of Investigation, speaks at a news conference.
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The Link Between the Video of Ahmaud Arbery’s Death and Lynching Photos

How lynching images are testimonies to the inaction of the white justice system.
by Grace Elizabeth Hale via Made By History on May 27, 2020

Eugenics and the White Moderate

Reflections on the COVID crisis from Reconstruction.
by William Horne via U.S. Intellectual History Blog on May 25, 2020

Is Capitalism Racist?

A scholar depicts white supremacy as the economic engine of American history.
by Nicholas Lemann via The New Yorker on May 18, 2020
Gateway Arch in St. Louis.
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The West Is Relevant to Our Long History of Anti-Blackness, Not Just the South

Revisiting the Missouri Compromise should transform how we think about white American expansion.
by Walter Johnson via Made By History on May 17, 2020

Reconstruction in America

Mass lynchings of Black people following the Civil War.
by Jennifer Rae Taylor, Kiara Boone, Jonathan Gibson, Sade Stevens, Kayla Vinson, Trey Walk, Sumita Rajpurohit, Breana Lamkin via Equal Justice Initiative on April 23, 2020
Illustration of a mob of white men burning down a building.

What a White-Supremacist Coup Looks Like

In Wilmington, North Carolina, in 1898, the victory of racial prejudice over democratic principle and the rule of law was unnervingly complete.
by Caleb Crain via The New Yorker on April 20, 2020

The Largest Human Zoo in World History

Visiting the 1904 World’s Fair in St. Louis.
by Walter Johnson via Lapham’s Quarterly on April 14, 2020
Amy Cooper calling the police on Christian Cooper, a Black birdwatcher.
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Amy Cooper Played the Damsel in Distress. That Trope Has a Troubling History.

Purportedly protecting white women has justified centuries of racist violence — while doing little to actually protect white women.
by Mia Brett via Made By History on March 28, 2020
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