The Portuguese ultimately took control of worldwide sugar production in the 15th century. Introduction From a humble...
Race
Religion often functions as a mirror of society’s broader assumptions and attempts to divide and discriminate. Over...
Race and religion have intertwined since the earliest days of the United States. The debate over critical...
Kenesaw Mountain Landis sought to uphold segregation in what he didn’t say and didn’t do. The Baseball...
The right has been waging its own war on speech, assembly, and association going back well in...
They did not run haphazardly into the woods, but established creative and subversive escape strategies. Historians once...
Most Americans do not realize that even in the supposedly liberal North, black students were excluded from...
The foundation of America, and of systemic racism, happened at the same time and from the same...
What is it? Why does it matter? Does it advance justice? Critical race theory has been in...
A scholar of race and racism explains what critical race theory is – and how many people...
Crenshaw is known for her work on intersectionality – how overlapping or intersecting social identities relate to...
Inside the Sunset Boulevard building that busted racial barriers. As you listen to Ella Fitzgerald sing “Take...
The eruption of white mob violence in downtown Tulsa on May 31, 1921, interrupted Greenwood’s historic ascendancy....
The White League had formed in 1874 as an insurgent, white paramilitary group in Grant Parish and...
A Getty conservator discusses how she protects a rare and important photograph. In late August 1850, Cazenovia,...
The contents of this booklet, released in 1864, quickly became a focal point of campaign oratory. By...
Communicating the diversity of the ancient Mediterranean. By Paula Gaither, Elisa McAtee, Kenneth Lapatin, and David Saunders...
Before 1921, most of Tulsa’s 10,000 African American residents lived in the vibrant district with flourishing Black-owned...
Of the nine presidents who were slaveholders, only George Washington freed all his own slaves upon his...
In a bittersweet history, the story of enslaved chocolatier Caesar shows the oppression that lay behind the...
Secession and the Civil War were about slavery and race. Introduction In his second inaugural address, Abraham...
White supremacist resistance against the civil rights movement transformed its rhetoric while seeking to align with the...
Wallace appeared on the national scene in the early sixties to give an unadulterated voice to feelings...
The lives, labor, and sacrifices of women and girls of color have been overlooked for centuries. Introduction...
Sumner added fire to an already explosive debate with his amendment to do away with the “whites...
How did Twain’s Huckleberry Finn engage and challenge popular ideas about slavery and race in nineteenth-century America?...
Thaddeus Stevens was a fearsome reformer, who never backed down from a fight. In 1813, a young...
Religion was no barrier for Southern lynch mobs intent on terror. White pastors joined the KKK, incited...
A long heritage of black preachers who played an important role for enslaved people shaped Martin Luther...
We need to be concerned with the needs of others who share this planet with us, to...