W.E.B. Du Bois

A review of "C. Vann Woodward: America’s Historian."

A new history of the Civil War and Reconstruction examines the ways in which Black Americans formed networks of self-reliance in their pursuit of emancipation.

During the Civil War, the Lincoln administration demonstrated that a progressive agenda and effective anti-inflationary measures could overlap.

Contrary to popular belief, the South has always been the key to defining the promise and limits of American democracy.

A new book traces how the writing of American history, from Reconstruction on, has falsified and illuminated our racial past.

The Supreme Court has watered down the policy’s core justification: justice.

The emergence of the supermarket was used as a key piece of anti-communist propaganda early in the twentieth century against the alternative of grocery co-ops.

The story of philanthropists Catherine Williams Ferguson and Isabella Marshall Graham’s unlikely interracial collaboration.

Visualizing the legacy of slavery and redlining, 1860 to the present.

Looking back at the short but deep friendship of John Brown and Harriet Tubman, who gave their lives to the abolitionist cause.

And Congress should claw it back.

A two-volume biography tracks the life and times of one of Harlem’s leading socialists.

"History​ is written by the victors, but diligent and continual silencing is required to maintain its claims on the present and future."

A conversation with Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò on his new book, which investigates the co-option of identity politics and the importance of coalitional organizing. 

There was once a thriving Black middle class based on farm ownership. But during the twentieth century, the USDA helped erase that source of wealth.

The school said it had benefited from slave-generated wealth and practiced racial discrimination.

“I am one who tells the truth and exposes evil and seeks with Beauty and for Beauty to set the world right,” W.E.B. Du Bois said in his June 1926 lecture.

Rejecting the resignation of the 1970s and ’80s, Robinson found in the disinvested ruins of the city a new egalitarian form of politics.

On the Black doctors who received their medical degrees and a new sort of freedom in Europe.

The US Civil War was a revolutionary upheaval that crushed slavery and stoked hopes of a broader emancipation against the rule of property.