In a sweeping account of the nation’s anniversary milestones, Eddie Glaude Jr. shows how whitewashing and racial exclusion have shaped America’s self-image from 1826 to 2026.
How Stephen Miller’s personal and political war on the 14th Amendment conflicts with the larger Reconstruction story and the vision of an egalitarian society for all who claim this nation.
White supremacy has always been used to usher in massive economic inequality
The Garland Fund was not a typical foundation, but its history shows the potential role philanthropy can play in moments of rising authoritarianism—and the tensions inherent in that role.
Amidst the storm
While instituting the largest tariff increase in modern history, Trump claimed that the income tax was passed for “reasons unknown to mankind” and caused the Great Depression. Here’s the real history.
Understanding the reemergence of the Ku Klux Klan in the early twentieth century gives insight into the roots of today’s reactionary activists and policymakers.
Rachel Swarns’s recent book about a mass sale of enslaved people by Jesuit priests to save Georgetown University reminds us that the legacy of slavery is simultaneously the legacy of resistance
It wasn’t really Jews or Palestinians. It was the U.S. Congress, which closed American borders 100 years ago this month.
During the 20th century’s two red scares in US and Canada, Wobblies and Communist-aligned unions faced fierce repression from employers and government. They were targeted because they were seen as posing a real threat to the capitalist social order.
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