Past Voices
We Are Constantly Reproducing Anti-Asian Racism. By Mae Ngai / The Atlantic
40 acres and a mule: How the first reparations for slavery were reversed. By DeNeen L. Brown / Wash Post
Documentary highlights Chinese Titanic survivors barred from U.S., erased from history. By Kimmy Yam / NBC News
How White fears of ‘Negro domination’ kept D.C. disenfranchised for decades. By Meagan Flynn / Wash Post
Life in Anna, Illinois, a Former ‘Sundown Town.’ By Logan Jaffe / The Atlantic
‘Policing The Police’: How The Black Panthers Got Their Start. WBUR News
Black Soldiers and the Civil War. By Aston Gonzalez / AAIHS
The Great Dismal Swamp was a refuge for the enslaved. Their descendants want to preserve it. By Meagan Flynn / Wash Post
Enslaved people built the University of Virginia. Now there’s a monument honoring them. By Moriah Balingit / Wash Post
In today’s uphill struggle to combat voter suppression, remember the Pearl. By Colbert I. King / Wash Post
Timeline: Inside the case that bankrupted the Klan. By Breeanna Hare /CNN
Manhattan Beach property seized from Black family more than a century ago may be returned. CBS This Morning
“Exterminate All the Brutes,” Reviewed: A Vast, Agonizing History of White Supremacy. By Richard Brody / The New Yorker
Georgia’s Unique And Bloody History With Voter Disenfranchisement. By Ciara Torres-Spelliscy / TPM
The California Klan’s Anti-Asian Crusade. By Kevin Waite / The Atlantic
Charlottesville Confederate monuments coming down: Where America went wrong after the Civil War and what we can learn from Germany. By Jalane Schmidt / Slate
White mobs rioted in Washington in 1848 to defend slaveholders’ rights after 76 Black enslaved people staged an unsuccessful mass escape on a boat. By Michael David Cohen / The Conversation
Nathan Bedford Forrest Day Still Observed In TN After Leg Stands Up For Slave Trader Again. By Matt Shuham / TPM
Why Paul Robeson’s Voice Still Rings True Today. By Tayo Aluko / The Progressive
The Painful History of the Georgia Voting Law. By Jason Morgan Ward / NYT
Four Confederate statues once stood as Baltimore landmarks. Now their pedestals stand ready to send new messages. By Jonathan M. Pitts / Wash Post
How Native Americans were vaccinated against smallpox, then pushed off their land. By Dana Hedgpeth / Wash Post
Georgia voting: Why these slave narratives compiled after the Civil War are more relevant than ever. By Eva Rothenberg / CNN
The Life and Work of Mary Church Terrell. By Malaurie Pilatte / AAIHS
Sure, erase the names of history’s racists. That won’t undo their messes. By Noam Cohen / Wash Post
Virginia must preserve places of African American valor. By Alfonzo Lopez and Lamont Bagby / Wash Post
A Powerful New Framing of America’s First Civil Rights Movement. By Jennifer Szalai / NYT
144 Years After His Death, Nathan Bedford Forrest Still Rules Tennessee Politics. By Matt Shuham / TPM
What Alexander Hamilton’s deep connections to slavery reveal about the need for reparations today. By Nicole S. Maskell / The Conversation
On the Mythologizing of United States History. By Matthew Teutsch / AAIHS
