Dutch and Flemish art cannot be separated from slavery’s legacy. Black scholarship and artists offer ways to...
Race and Racism
California’s first governor, Peter Burnett, sought to exclude Black residents despite the state’s ban on slavery. His...
Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation helped turn the Civil War into a fight against slavery. Its limited reach and...
Alpine singers inspired American folk-singing families, whose harmonies blackface troupes adapted in the 1840s. The borrowed style...
National Archives photographs show African Americans serving in the military and supporting the war at home. This...
Uncle Tom’s Cabin captivated readers before the Civil War. Its changing reception reveals how an antislavery bestseller...
An elegant family promenade becomes a map of race and status as Agostino Brunias uses dress, complexion,...
Lost has been proper acknowledgment of pioneering black civilian photographers of the mid-20th century. Robert McNeill, former...
The Tuskegee Syphilis Study reveals how the suppression of medical information by government researchers eroded trust, exposed...
What makes Aristotle’s logic especially dangerous is its respectability. When authority borrows the voice of nature, it...
Because of the work of Linnaeus and others, entire populations were positioned as less rational, less capable,...
African Americans started arriving on the Canal Zone in the early construction years of 1904–1908. The history...
The Black church came about when African Americans began to establish their own congregations. Introduction With religious affiliation on the decline, continuing racism...
How an archivist came to see Bethune as a global figure. Introduction When I first landed an...
Dunbar became the first Black writer to earn international acclaim through his poetry, essays, and musical lyrics....
Four women went on strike at Fort Devins to do skilled jobs instead of ‘maid work’. In...
Wo-Chi-Ca was born in 1935, catering mostly — but not exclusively — to children in the New...
Powell continued to practice medicine as a civilian. More than 180,000 African Americans—some free born, some escaped...
The cartography of power drawn in that era still shapes our world. Understanding its contours remains a...
The fields may be quiet in Arkansas. The towns may remain friendly. But the soil is being...
If Reconstruction was the birth of a more expansive democracy, then the White League and Red Shirts...
Extremism is evolving. It no longer always wears uniforms or shouts slogans in public squares. It builds...
The Bund’s defeat came not through civic enlightenment alone, but through federal prosecution and the geopolitical rupture...
The challenges of teaching in Trump’s America. By Rann MillerEducator and Freelance Writer “Prism is an independent...
Described in the media alternately as a “back-to-nature” group and a “terrorist” cult, MOVE defied simple explanation....
After the passage of the Militia Acts of 1792, the U.S. Army refused to enlist black men....
“Just because I am a Librarian doesn’t mean I have to dress like one.” By Dr. Deborah...
The anti-black riots developed from a variety of post-World War I social tensions. Curated/Reviewed by Matthew A....
The harmful effects of White identity on conspiracy belief. By Dr. Feodor SnagovskyAssistant Professor of Political ScienceUniversity...
The U.S. has a long history of misusing genetics and biology in immigration policy. By Dr. Shoumita...