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What the Reconstruction Meant for Women

Southern legal codes included parallel language pairing “master and slave” and “husband and wife.”
by Livia Gershon, Amy Dru Stanley via JSTOR Daily on November 6, 2019
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Biggie and Tupac: Cops on My Tail

In 1992, Ronald Ray Howard shot and killed Texas state trooper Bill Davidson. His lawyer argued he’d been driven to murder by the music he’d been playing in his car: a dubbed copy of Tupac Shakur’s first album, 2Pacalypse Now. On the second episode of Slow Burn’s third season: How gangsta rap and law enforcement found themselves at war.
November 6, 2019

When America Tried to Deport Its Radicals

A hundred years ago, the Palmer Raids imperilled thousands of immigrants. Then a wily official got in the way.
by Adam Hochschild via The New Yorker
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on November 4, 2019
Police officer aims a gun at a handcuffed man on the ground.

The Massacre That Spawned the Alt-Right

Forty years ago, a gang of Klansmen and Nazis murdered five communists in broad daylight. America has never been the same.
by Peter Keating, Shaun Assael via Politico Magazine on November 3, 2019

The Greensboro Massacre at 40

Forty years after the Greensboro Massacre, a survivor talks about that day, and why organized workers are such a threat to the powerful.
by Rosalyn Pelles, Jordan T. Camp via Boston Review on November 1, 2019
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Combating the Myth of the Superpredator

In the 1990s, a handful of researchers inspired panic with a dire but flawed prediction: the imminent arrival of a new breed of “superpredators.”
via Retro Report on October 30, 2019

Who Was Tank Kee?

He wanted to be an ally of the Chinese immigrant. By pretending to be one himself.
by Christopher Decou via Contingent on October 28, 2019
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The Misunderstood McDonald's Hot Coffee Lawsuit

Stella Liebeck was vilified when she was awarded millions after spilling McDonald's coffee in her lap. But the facts told another story.
via Retro Report on October 28, 2019

The Immigration Crisis Archive

How did today's bipartisan understanding of immigration—as an intolerable threat that justifies any means to stop it—take hold?
by César Cuauhtémoc García Hernández via Public Books on October 25, 2019
Title page of "The History of the New York African Free-Schools."

The New York Manumission Society

Inspired by America’s exceptional idea, it took a vital step toward securing liberty for slaves.
by Richard Brookhiser via National Review
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on October 24, 2019
A rope used to lynch Raymond Byrd.

So You Want to Talk about Lynching? Understand This First.

If you are unwilling to do this work — and it is work — then leave that word alone.
by Michele Norris via Washington Post
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on October 23, 2019
Woman being struck by lightning in front of shocked judge and crowd at the Salem Witch Trials.

Most Witches are Women, Because Witch Hunts Were All About Persecuting the Powerless

We use the term "witch hunt" to describe baseless accusations. It's actually about targeting those without power.
by Bridget Marshall via The Conversation on October 23, 2019
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A New Housing Program to Fight Poverty has an Unexpected History

Some cities are trying to help poor children succeed by having their families move to middle-income, "opportunity areas" -- an idea once politically impossible.
via Retro Report on October 22, 2019
A Black man with a rifle and woman look out the window at white men with rifles shooting African Americans.

The Massacre of Black Wall Street

In 1921, White rioters destroyed a beacon of Black prosperity and security. This is what happened, and why it still matters today.
by Natalie Chang via The Atlantic
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on October 20, 2019
Sandra Day O'Connor and Ruther Bader Ginsburg speaking at the Congrsssional Women's Caucus.

The First and Last of Her Kind

The legal academy has grown dismissive of Justice O’Connor, but the Supreme Court is not a law school faculty workshop. She saw herself as a problem-solver.
by Linda Greenhouse via New York Review of Books
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on October 17, 2019
Officers of the National Woman's Party in Washington, D.C., June 1920
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The 19th Amendment Was a Crucial Achievement. But it Wasn’t Enough to Liberate Women.

It’s time to fight for the original and heretofore unachieved goals of the women’s movement.
by Holly Jackson via Made By History on October 17, 2019

An Early Case For Reparations

Two new books tell the stories of people kidnapped and sold into slavery. One of them sued successfully.
by Eric Herschthal via The New Republic
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on October 16, 2019

Fifty Years Ago Today, US Soldiers Joined the Vietnam Moratorium Protests in Mass Numbers

Soldiers who had fought in Vietnam weren’t pitted against an anti-war movement — in fact, many were actually part of it.
by Derek Seidman via Jacobin
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on October 15, 2019
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Sanctuaries Protecting Gun Rights and the Unborn Challenge the Legitimacy of Federal Law

Who gets to decide what the Constitution really means?
by John E. Finn via The Conversation on October 15, 2019
Military headstones for American Indians at the site of the Carlisle Indian School.

The U.S. Stole Generations of Indigenous Children to Open the West

Indian boarding schools held Native American youth hostage in exchange for land cessions.
by Nick Estes via High Country News
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on October 14, 2019
A portrait of Marlon Brando (1948).

On the Activism of Marlon Brando, Before the Fame

Agitprop, Israel, and the shape of the world after WWII.
by William J. Mann via Literary Hub on October 11, 2019
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What the LAPD Recruitment Ad on Breitbart Says About the Department’s History

Becoming an agency that wouldn't dream of advertising on Breitbart will require deep changes.
by Max Felker-Kantor via Made By History on October 9, 2019
Demonstrators at a Black Lives Matter rally.

Five Years Later, Do Black Lives Matter?

Five years since its inception, a look at what the Black Lives Matter movement accomplished and the important work it left unfinished.
by Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor via Jacobin
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on October 9, 2019

The Hidden History of American Anti-Car Protests

The U.S. had its own anti-car movement, led largely by women, before the Dutch "Stop de kindermoord" movement of the 1970s.
by Peter Norton via CityLab
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on October 8, 2019
Anti-smoking poster featuring a skeleton smoking a cigarette.

Nonsmokers, Unite!

The complicated privilege of forming a new constituency.
by Sarah Milov via Lapham’s Quarterly on October 2, 2019
UAW strikers in the Fisher body plant in Flint, Michigan 1937

The Socialist Party in New Deal–Era America

The 1930s Socialist Party is often seen as a marginal force, but its successes laid the groundwork for the next generation of organizing.
by Shawn Gude, Jake Altman via Jacobin
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on October 1, 2019
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For 25 Years, Operation Gatekeeper Has Made Life Worse for Border Communities

The policy of "prevention through deterrence" has been deadly.
by Pedro Rios via Made By History on October 1, 2019

Jimmy Hoffa and 'The Irishman': A True Crime Story?

Martin Scorsese's new film is premised on a confession that is not credible.
by Jack Goldsmith via New York Review of Books
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on September 26, 2019
Photograph of Julian Bond holding one of his children.

Julian Bond Papers Project

A new digital archive from UVA Carter G. Woodson Institute and Center for Digital Editing explores the late Civil Rights leader’s life, legacy, and writings.
by Deborah McDowell, Laura Baker, James Perla via Carter G. Woodson Institute on September 25, 2019
First annual picnic of the Knights of Labor, 1882.

The Vexed Meaning of Equality in Gilded Age America

How three late 19th century equality movements failed to promote equality.
by Eric Foner via The Nation
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on September 24, 2019
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