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Confederate History is American History

New Orleans shouldn't have removed its Robert E. Lee statue.

by Quentin B. Fairchild via The American Conservative on June 11, 2017

Jackson statue outside the White House.

Trump's Jacksonian Moment

A new biography of Andrew Jackson recounts a bloody history, and reveals disturbing parallels between the 1830s and the Trump era.

by Richard White via Boston Review on June 7, 2017

American Nazis in the 1930s—The German American Bund

A collection of photos of American Nazis – and the Americans who took a stand against them.

by Alan Taylor via The Atlantic on June 5, 2017

Detroit street after an urban unrest: billowing smoke, debris, an armed policeman.

If You’re Black in America, Riots Are a Spiritual Impulse Not a Political Strategy

The Long Hot Summer of 1967 was the inevitable result of forced duality.

by Carvell Wallace via Timeline on June 5, 2017

The Echoes of America's 'Faithful Slave' Trope in Lola's Story

How Alex Tizon’s essay echoes a trope with deep roots in American history

by Micki McElya via The Atlantic on May 31, 2017

The Battle for Memorial Day in New Orleans

A century and a half after the Civil War, Mayor Mitch Landrieu asked his city to reexamine its past — and to wrestle with hard truths.

by David W. Blight via The Atlantic on May 29, 2017

A worker prepares to remove a statue of Jefferson Davis.

How Robert E. Lee Got Knocked Off His Pedestal

Before New Orleans Mayor Mitch Landrieu made his celebrated speech, a grassroots movement forced the city to take down its monuments to white supremacy.

by Michael "Quess?" Moore, Brentin Mock via CityLab on May 29, 2017

Memorial Day and Our African American Dead

Are we honoring all of our American heroes this Memorial Day?

by Robert Greene II via U.S. Intellectual History Blog on May 28, 2017

Oscar Dunn And The New Orleans Monument That Never Happened

New Orleans at 300 returns with a story about a monument that was supposed to be erected in the late 1800s, but never happened.

by Laine Kaplan-Levenson via New Orleans Public Radio on May 25, 2017

Bryan Stevenson Explains How It Feels To Grow Up Black Amid Confederate Monuments

"I think we have to increase our shame — and I don't think shame is a bad thing."

by Ezra Klein, Bryan Stevenson via Vox on May 24, 2017

Robert E. Lee Topples From His Pedestal

The Confederate general has long been seen, in the South and beyond, as embodying the virtues of the ideal man.

by Kevin M. Levin via The Atlantic on May 19, 2017

Mitch Landrieu

Address on Removal of Four Confederate Statues

Why New Orleans took down monuments that had been installed by supporters of the "Cult of the Lost Cause."

by Mitch Landrieu via YouTube on May 19, 2017

America’s Most Political Food

The founder of a popular South Carolina barbecue restaurant was a white supremacist.

by Lauren Collins via The New Yorker on April 24, 2017

Monroe Work Today

On these pages you will meet Monroe Nathan Work, who lived from 1866- 1945. This website is a rebirth of one piece of his work.

via Monroe Work Today on March 26, 2017

Donald Trump Sees Himself in Andrew Jackson. They Deserve Each Other.

The president deserves the Jackson legacy, but not for the reasons he'd like.

by Jamelle Bouie via Slate on March 15, 2017

A scene from Birth of a Nation.

Births of a Nation

Cedric Robinson has a great deal to teach us about Trumpism and the significance of resistance in determining the future.

by Robin D. G. Kelley via Boston Review on March 6, 2017

Making America White 200 Years Ago

Brandon Byrd examines resistance to the American Colonization Society's attempts to remove free blacks from the US.

by Brandon R. Byrd via Public Books on February 17, 2017

'Segregation Had to Be Invented'

During the late 19th century, blacks and whites in the South lived closer together than they do today.

by Alana Semuels via The Atlantic on February 17, 2017

Ida B. Wells and the Economics of Racial Violence

In the late 19th century, Wells connected lynchings to the economic interests and status anxieties of white southerners.

by Megan Ming Francis via Items on January 24, 2017

The Monument Wars

What is to be done with a landscape whose features carry the legacy of violence?

by Rebecca Solnit via Harper's on January 13, 2017

Alexander Hamilton

The Hamilton Hustle

Why liberals have embraced our most dangerously reactionary founder.

by Matt Stoller via The Baffler on January 1, 2017

KKK march in Washington in 1925.

When Bigotry Paraded Through the Streets

A century ago, millions of Americans banded together to reform the KKK, the rest turned a blind eye.

by Joshua D. Rothman via The Atlantic on December 4, 2016

The Tragic, Forgotten History of Black Military Veterans

The susceptibility of black ex-soldiers to extrajudicial murder and assault has long been recognized by historians.

by Peter C. Baker via The New Yorker on November 26, 2016

Soldiers in the 15th New York.

Lynching in America: Targeting Black Veterans

Black veterans were once targeted for racialized violence because of the equality with whites that their military service implied.

via Equal Justice Initiative on November 11, 2016

Welcome to the Second Redemption

The accomplishments of the first black president will be erased by a man who rose to power on slandering him.

by Adam Serwer via The Atlantic on November 10, 2016

To Remake the World: Slavery, Racial Capitalism, and Justice

What if we use the history of slavery as a standpoint from which to rethink our notion of justice today?

by Walter Johnson via Boston Review on October 19, 2016

What White Catholics Owe Black Americans

It's time to acknowledge that White Catholics’ American dream was built on profits plundered from black women, men, and children.

by Matthew J. Cressler via Slate on September 2, 2016

The Racist History of Portland, the Whitest City in America

It’s known as a modern-day hub of progressivism, but its past is one of exclusion.

by Alana Semuels via The Atlantic on July 22, 2016

“The Passing of the Great Race” at 100

In the age of Trump, Madison Grant's influential work of scientific racism takes on a new salience.

by Noel Hartman via Public Books on July 1, 2016

What Do You Do After Surviving Your Own Lynching?

On August 7, 1930, three black teenagers were lynched in Marion, Indiana. James Cameron was one of them.

by Syreeta McFadden via BuzzFeed News on June 23, 2016

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