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K Troop

The untold story of the eradication of the original Ku Klux Klan.

by Matthew Pearl via Slate on March 4, 2016

The Birth of the Ku Klux Brand

A new book re-traces the origins of the 19th-century KKK, which began as a social club before swiftly moving to murder.

by Malcolm Harris via Pacific Standard on February 19, 2016

How Hillary Clinton Got On The Wrong Side of Liberals' Changing Theory of American History

What she doesn't get about race and the Civil War.

by Matthew Yglesias via Vox on January 26, 2016

Hillary Clinton Goes Back to the Dunning School

How do you diagnose the problem of racism in America without understanding its actual history?

by Ta-Nehisi Coates via The Atlantic on January 26, 2016

How the Klan Got Its Hood

Members of the Ku Klux Klan did not wear their distinctive white uniform until Hollywood—and a mail-order catalog—intervened.

by Alison Kinney via The New Republic on January 8, 2016

Donald Trump Isn’t a Fascist; He’s a Media-Savvy Know-Nothing

Donald Trump combines the instincts of a reality-TV star with the politics of a hundred-and-seventy-year-old nativist movement.

by John Cassidy via The New Yorker on December 28, 2015

The Liberty Place monument surrounded by streetcars and pedestrians in the early twentieth century.

Why the New Orleans Vote on Confederate Monuments Matters

The city council decides to remove four memorials that offered a distorted picture of the city’s past.

by Kevin M. Levin via The Atlantic on December 17, 2015

Don’t Be So Quick to Defend Woodrow Wilson

It would be a grave mistake to ignore the link between Wilson’s white supremacy at home and his racist militarism abroad.

by Greg Grandin via The Nation on November 24, 2015

Woodrow Wilson

Woodrow Wilson Was Extremely Racist — Even By the Standards of His Time

He called black people "an ignorant and inferior race," and it gets worse.

by Dylan Matthews via Vox on November 20, 2015

The Cause Was Never Lost

The Confederate flag remains the symbol of our unfinished reckoning with race and violence for good reason.

by Jason Morgan Ward via The American Historian on November 2, 2015

What Was the Confederate Flag Doing in Cuba, Vietnam, and Iraq?

The Confederate flag’s military tenure continued long after the Civil War ended.

by Greg Grandin via The Nation on July 7, 2015

'I Want My Country Back' and Exclusionary Visions of America

"You're taking over our country" echoes long-held narratives and has renewed prominence in conservative discourse.

by Ben Railton via We're History on June 26, 2015

Bryan Stevenson on Charleston and Our Real Problem with Race

"I don't believe slavery ended in 1865, I believe it just evolved."

by Corey G. Johnson, Bryan Stevenson via The Marshall Project on June 24, 2015

What This Cruel War Was Over

The meaning of the Confederate flag is best discerned in the words of those who bore it.

by Ta-Nehisi Coates via The Atlantic on June 22, 2015

Black family outside their homestead, Nicodemus, Graham County, Kansas.

Exodusters

Migration further west began almost immediately after Reconstruction ended, as Black Americans initiated the "Great Exodus" outside the South toward Kansas.

by Todd Arrington via National Park Service on April 10, 2015

The Unlikely Paths of Grant and Lee

The two men met at Appomattox. The loser would become a role model, the victor an embarrassment.

by Jamelle Bouie via Slate on April 9, 2015

Photo of Jimmy Lee Jackson.

The Killing of Jimmie Lee Jackson

How a post-Civil War massacre impacted racial justice in America.

by Debo Adegbile via The Marshall Project on February 27, 2015

No Twang of Conscience Whatever

Patsy Sims reflects on her interview with the man who was instrumental in the death of three black men in Mississippi.

by Patsy Simms via Oxford American on November 6, 2014

The Case for Reparations

Until we reckon with our compounding moral debts, America will never be whole.

by Ta-Nehisi Coates via The Atlantic on June 23, 2014

This editorial cartoon from a January 1879 edition of Harper's Weekly depicting a white man misspelling words on a sign announcing Black voters must pass a literacy test, while a Black man looks on laughing.

The Racial History Of The 'Grandfather Clause'

Companies and individuals are considered grandfathered and exempt from new sets of regulations all the time. But the term and the concept dates to a darker era.

by Alan Greenblatt via NPR on October 22, 2013

The Colfax Riot

Stumbling on a forgotten Reconstruction tragedy, in a forgotten corner of Louisiana.

by Richard Rubin via The Atlantic on August 22, 2003

Martin Luther King Jr. giving a speech.

The Crisis in America’s Cities

Martin Luther King Jr. on what sparked the violent urban riots of the “long hot summer” of 1967.

by Martin Luther King Jr. via The Atlantic on August 15, 1967

Photograph of Martin Luther King Jr. speaking into microphones.

Let Justice Roll Down

"Those who expected a cheap victory in a climate of complacency were shocked into reality by Selma."

by Martin Luther King Jr. via The Nation on March 16, 1965

Henry McNeal Turner.

Am I a Man?: The Fiery 1868 Speech By An Expelled Black Legislator In Georgia

The expulsion of two Black lawmakers from the Tennessee House recalls an earlier expulsion of dozens of Black lawmakers from Georgia's General Assembly.

by Henry McNeal Turner, Benjamin Barber via Facing South on September 3, 1868

Banner of George Washington on a stage with nazi symbols and the American flag

Nazis Rallied at Madison Square Garden

A chilling raw feed of an infamous event.

by Andy Lanset via WNYC

Parade of cars with Donald Trump flags and American flags.

The “Fascist” With a Popular Majority

Donald Trump’s victory will inevitably reopen the “fascism debate.” But does a populist whose appeal cuts across diverse groups truly fit the fascist profile?

by Tristan Hughes via Jacobin on November 19, 2024

A crowd at a Trump rally, holding signs and flags endorsing him, as well as a Confederate flag.

Trump Is Not an Aberration

America’s path has been contested since its founding, and realizing the promise of liberty required generations of struggle.

by Jeffrey C. Isaac via New Lines Magazine on November 12, 2024

The Fallen Angels on the Wing by Gustave Doré, a dark painting of angels falling from heaven.

The Political Afterlife of Paradise Lost

From white supremacists to black activists, readers have sought moral legitimacy in Milton’s epic poem.

by Lucy Hughes-Hallett via New Statesman on November 7, 2024

Followers salute Trump at his rally in Madison Square Garden.

Trump in the Garden

Eight years into the fascism debate, few skeptics seem to be willing to admit that they were wrong.

by Patrick Iber via Dissent on October 29, 2024

State Correctional Institution at Camp Hill Administration Building, with a restricted entrance sign in front of its doors.

The Porous Prison

How incarcerated people have become separated from American society.

by Charlotte Rosen, Reiko Hillyer via Public Books on October 3, 2024

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