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Adam Harris

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How Reconstruction Created American Public Education

Freedpeople and their advocates persuaded the nation to embrace schooling for all.

by Adam Harris via The Atlantic on November 13, 2023
The GOP’s ‘Critical Race Theory’ Obsession

How conservative politicians and pundits became fixated on an academic approach.

by Adam Harris via The Atlantic on May 7, 2021
America’s Political Roots Are in Eutaw, Alabama

When I think about the 1870 riot, I remember how the country rejected the opportunity it had.

by Adam Harris via The Atlantic on February 26, 2021
What Jaime Harrison's Race Meant for the South

Jaime Harrison lost to Lindsey Graham but expanded Democrats’ vision of what’s possible in the Deep South.

by Adam Harris via The Atlantic on November 4, 2020
The Firsts

The children who desegregated America.

by Adam Harris, Rebecca Rosen via The Atlantic on September 29, 2020
An Attempt to Resegregate Little Rock, of All Places

A battle over local control in a city that was the face of integration shows the extent of the new segregation problem in the U.S.

by Adam Harris via The Atlantic on October 22, 2019
The Little College Where Tuition Is Free and Every Student Is Given a Job

Berea College has paid for every enrollee’s education using its endowment for 126 years. Can other schools replicate the model?

by Adam Harris via The Atlantic on October 11, 2018

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Image of a red elephant with text from the 1619 Project overlaid on it, against a black background.

Why Conservatives Want to Cancel the 1619 Project

Objections to the appointment of Nikole Hannah-Jones to an academic chair are the latest instance of conservatives using the state to suppress "dangerous" ideas.

by Adam Serwer via The Atlantic on May 21, 2021

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