W.E.B. Du Bois

David Brion Davis’s philosophical history.

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

W.E.B. Du Bois on the beauty of sorrow songs.

Since Trump took office, the park service — charged with preserving American history — has changed how it describes key moments from slavery to Jim Crow.

The history of ivory-topped piano keys and the invisible human suffering caused by our cultural commodities.

Who decides how history gets written?

A historian explores his own family's history to understand the African-American community’s internal pigmentocracy and the absurdity of racial binaries.

After February 28, 1967, the main reason to go was to get a job.

Her long-unpublished novel was the culmination of a years-long fascination. What does it reveal about her fraught views on civil rights?

“The world didn’t give It, but the world can’t take It away.”

On the literary and cinematic legacy of white supremacy in the United States.

Can language unify the people?

The surprising influence of premillennial eschatology on American culture.

It’s important to understand why some workers might be motivated to weather scorn, rejection and even violence from their peers.

Vito Marcantonio fought racial, social, and economic injustices, promoting cross-cultural solidarity and progressive ideals amid McCarthyism and segregation.

A culture of reverence for the U.S. Constitution shields the founding document from criticism, despite its many shortcomings.

Sinha enlarges the temporal boundaries students are accustomed to by covering the end of the 19th century into the Progressive era with the 19th Amendment.

When police raided Columbia University in May, commentators drew parallels to the 1968. But the school’s hostility to the antiwar movement traces back to 1917.

A shocking image of the 1906 atrocity survived but failed to become a humanitarian touchstone.

How Black artists made modernism their own.