W.E.B. Du Bois

How Black artists made modernism their own.

Historian Manisha Sinha argues that the Second Republic lasted decades longer than most histories state and achieved wider gains.

Despite frequent litigation, U.S. courts have created a blurry line that puts administrators in an impossible situation.

African American insurance and the actuarial double bind.

Historian Robin Blackburn has completed a trilogy of books that provide a comprehensive Marxist account of slavery in the New World.

The 2024 OAH Conference on American History falls almost fifteen years after the renowned historian, teacher, and activist's death.

In the American South, an oligarchy of planters enriched itself through slavery. Pervasive underdevelopment is their legacy.

Jewish suffering at the hands of Nazis are the foundation on which most descriptions of extreme ideology and atrocity have been built.

The UN’s failure to dismantle the colonial order foreclosed the application of the Genocide Convention to Israel, South Africa, and the United States.

An effort is underway to restore President Wilson’s reputation as a great reformer. His best reforms were won by a mass movement, often pushing against Wilson.

When viewing federal authority as a bulwark for civil rights against local tyranny, we miss what the U.S. government has done to sustain white freedom.

Segregated lives of pride and peril on Firestone's Liberian plantations.

A discussion on the difficulty of keeping faith in a foundationally anti-Black republic.

“I’d assumed this practice was a manifestation of military decorum.”

In 1901, a series of articles took a dim view of the era, and of the idea that all Americans ought to participate in the democratic process.

John Brown and the Secret Six—the abolitionists who funded the raid on Harpers Ferry—confronted a question as old as America: When is violence justified?

How Black support for Zionism morphed into support for Palestine.

Black prosperity has provoked white resentment that has led to the undoing of policies that have nurtured Black advancement.

The storytellers who taught me over the course of my career all knew how to bring Black history vividly to life.

The ambivalence many Black soldiers felt toward the U.S. in WWII was matched only by the ambivalence the U.S. showed toward principles on which WWII was fought.