W.E.B. Du Bois

The United States wasn't filled with isolationists, and it wasn't exactly neutral before 1917.

What did Americans think of World War I before the US entered the conflict 100 years ago?

An collection of primary sources exploring the causes, duration, and aftermath of America's involvement in World War I.

The international ambitions of the US slaveholding class and the abolitionist movement that brought them down.

Cedric Robinson has a great deal to teach us about Trumpism and the significance of resistance in determining the future.

Before the Civil War, many Southern leaders hoped to expand slavery even beyond the nation's borders.

W. E. B. Du Bois may be our keenest critic of Trumpism today.

The susceptibility of black ex-soldiers to extrajudicial murder and assault has long been recognized by historians.

Black veterans were once targeted for racialized violence because of the equality with whites that their military service implied.

What if we use the history of slavery as a standpoint from which to rethink our notion of justice today?

Historian Judith Stein debunks liberal myths about racism, the New Deal, and why the Democrats moved right.

From lynching photos to Black Lives Matter – what does it mean to look at images of African Americans being murdered?

It will help black Americans to recall that they have a history that transcends victimization and exclusion.

Recovering black radicalism.

Woodrow Wilson arrived at the White House determined to eliminate the gains African-Americans made during Reconstruction.

The National Parks Service, which preserves many Civil War sites, is finally looking for a way to mark the struggles that defined its legacy.

The two men met at Appomattox. The loser would become a role model, the victor an embarrassment.

How the fight to ban "The Birth of a Nation" shaped the nascent civil rights movement.

David Brion Davis’s philosophical history.

The Civil Rights movement ignored one very important, very difficult question. It’s time to answer it.