W.E.B. Du Bois

A whole vision of history seems to be leaving the stage.

How allies abroad help the fight against racism at home.

For Baldwin, the past had always been bent in service of a lie. Could a true story be told?

The New Deal's legacies of infrastructure and economic development, and entrenching structural racism, reveal the potential and mistakes to avoid for the Green New Deal.

The dangerous myth that blacks in bondage chose not to be free in revolutionary America.

Three new books consider the life, and impact, of Franz Boas, the "father of American cultural anthropology."

The overthrow of slavery in the US was a battle waged and won in the field of democratic mass politics; a battle that holds enormous lessons for radicals today.

How cars changed the lives of black Americans.

In 1959 there was a public debate on violence vs nonviolence in the pages of The Liberator magazine between Martin Luther King, Jr. and Robert F. Williams.

Dan Berger interviews Stuart Schrader about his new book on US imperialism.

By examining the upheaval of the nineteen-thirties, we can recognize similarities between today and democracy's last near-death experience.

The New York Times’ 1619 Project launched with the best of intentions, but has been undermined by some of its claims.

The rise and fall of Perry Miller.

A pioneering black editor, he worked closely with African-American workers to advance a liberatory black politics.

A dispute between some scholars and the authors of NYT Magazine’s issue on slavery represents a fundamental disagreement over the trajectory of U.S. society.

The historical interpretations crafted by the men of the Dunning School might now be largely discredited and discarded. But their legacies remain.

Eric Foner has helped us better understand the ambiguous consequences of what were almost always only partial victories.

A new three-part PBS documentary explores the failure of Reconstruction and the Redemption of the South.

The gravest danger to American democracy isn’t an excess of vitriol—it’s the false promise of civility.

An excerpt from ‘We Return Fighting,’ a groundbreaking exploration of African American involvement in World War I.