Carol Anderson

A brief scholarly overview to understand the contours of white backlashes, their historical impact, and the ways they shape the world we inherit.

Like the 1619 Project, two new books on the Constitution reflect a vigorous debate about what has changed in the American past—and what hasn’t.

How the silent majority became a loud and angry minority.

A civil rights initiative during World War II known as the Double V campaign advocated for dual victories: over fascism abroad, and racial injustice in the U.S.

An agency spokesperson claimed that the move had nothing to do with politics. Internal emails show otherwise.

If fact-checking could fix us, we’d be a utopia by now.

The ambitious Times endeavor reveals the difficulties that greet a journalistic project when it aspires to shift a founding narrative of the past.

As an attorney, Derrick Bell worked on many civil-rights cases, but his doubts about their impact launched a groundbreaking school of thought.

These men, who had sacrificed so much for the country, faced racist attacks in 1946 as they laid the groundwork for the civil rights movement to come.

Whether it’s happening or not.

How a party spent decades making itself white.

The golden age of American politics was illiberal, undemocratic, and bloody.