W.E.B. Du Bois

50 years after King's death, his image has been transformed and stripped of its radicalism.

Du Bois's ideas about the environment — and how Jim Crow shaped them — have gone relatively unnoticed by environmental historians.

With democracy in peril, Du Bois reminds us of the long fight to protect it.

Du Bois's "Black Reconstruction in America" showed that the black freedom struggle has always been one for radical democracy.

Black intellectuals in the U.S.—from W. E. B. Du Bois to Marcus Garvey—had strong and divergent opinions on Japanese Empire.

Commemoration of the 14th Amendment must not display the abundance of freedom, but the hunger for it on both sides of the border.

A central component of the history of racism is the intersection in which geography and race collide.

Here’s why that didn’t work during WWI.

An examination of the tragic echoes of Reconstruction-era politics following Obama's presidency.

On VE Day, we remember black Americans' Double V campaign: victory in Europe against fascism, victory at home against racism.

A documentary attempts to remember forgotten lynching victims.

Why an historian is compiling a digital database of the military records of 200,000+ black Union soldiers.

American niceness is the absolute worst thing to ever happen in human history.

When he promised to put America first in his inaugural speech, Donald Trump drew on a slogan with a long and sinister history.

Longtime tenant in the 165-year-old St. Denis building in New York City reflects on the building's history.

An animated excerpt of an article from W.E.B. Du Bois depicts the “double-consciousness of a dark body.”

Considering Du Bois' complex ideas on the role of black artists in the struggle against white supremacy.

The blockbuster refuses to flatten its characters into simple heroes or villains — and that's exactly what makes it so refreshing.

A historian probes the ‘tragedy’ of the famed scholar's failed WWI history.

Why the Trump Era demands a better understanding of how racism got us into this mess.