Letting Go of Robert E. Lee at Washington and Lee University Letting Go of Robert E. Lee at Washington and Lee University
It is going to get increasingly hard to persuade high school students who care about diversity to attend a university named after a Confederate general.
Jun 25, 2020 / StudentNation / Toni Locy
It’s Time to Make Juneteenth a National Holiday It’s Time to Make Juneteenth a National Holiday
Marking the end of slavery with a federal holiday would be more than a symbolic gesture. It would provide space for growth as a nation.
Jun 19, 2020 / Rep. Jamaal Bowman
The Violence Didn’t Start With the Protests The Violence Didn’t Start With the Protests
Violence has been a constant throughout American history and is woven through countless American systems today.
Jun 12, 2020 / Column / Kali Holloway
The Making of the Radical Republicans The Making of the Radical Republicans
How did the struggle for emancipation become a mass politics?
May 5, 2020 / Books & the Arts / Eric Foner
The Racial Politics of ‘Return’ The Racial Politics of ‘Return’
Tourism initiatives in Ghana and beyond leave out black people without the economic means to travel.
Apr 10, 2020 / Edna Bonhomme
Since Emancipation, the United States Has Refused to Make Reparations for Slavery Since Emancipation, the United States Has Refused to Make Reparations for Slavery
But in 1862, the federal government doled out the 2020 equivalent of $23 million—not to the formerly enslaved but to their white enslavers.
Mar 23, 2020 / Feature / Kali Holloway
Slavery, and American Racism, Were Born in Genocide Slavery, and American Racism, Were Born in Genocide
Martin Luther King Jr. saw something essential about our nation: Imperial expansion west over stolen Indian land shaped and deepened the American Revolution’s relationship to slave...
Jan 20, 2020 / Greg Grandin
The Reasons Republicans Are Still Backing Trump The Reasons Republicans Are Still Backing Trump
The party Trump has inherited is hell-bent on continuing America’s long tradition of racism and imperialism.
Dec 6, 2019 / Rebecca Gordon
Eric Foner’s Story of American Freedom Eric Foner’s Story of American Freedom
Charting the ironies of freedom won and lost during and after the Civil War, the American historian has also helped us better understand the ambiguous consequences of what were alm...
Dec 2, 2019 / Books & the Arts / Michael Kazin
A Lawsuit at Harvard Pries Open Debates About Science and Reparations A Lawsuit at Harvard Pries Open Debates About Science and Reparations
Since 2011, Tamara Lanier has been battling the university over the ownership of daguerreotypes of her enslaved ancestors. Her fight tells us a lot about the racist roots of Americ...
Nov 28, 2019 / Eamon Whalen