W.E.B. Du Bois

The history of a single photograph reveals how an atrocity in the Philippines was forgotten by its American perpetrators.

A Black socialist magazine urges solidarity and action in 1919.

Lionel Trilling defends humanism amid crisis culture, warning that obsessing over evil can erode the self and our capacity for moral and creative agency.

Six decades of civil-rights efforts haven’t budged the racial wealth gap, and the usual prescriptions—including reparations—offer no lasting solutions.

Correspondence about writing, travel, and friendship, from 1926 through 1929.

The unique brutality of the US capitalist class bred a labor movement that has often limited itself to being a private insurance provider.

At the Met, "Superfine: Tailoring Black Style" shows how clothing became a way for Black men to assert presence and push back against control.

The discovery of a forgotten burial place outside Chattanooga sheds light on a century of racial discrimination and raises questions about the path forward.

Under the Trump administration's book police, Jackie Robinson’s life and actions are considered dangerous memories.

Since Trump took office, the park service — charged with preserving American history — has changed how it describes key moments from slavery to Jim Crow.

The history of ivory-topped piano keys and the invisible human suffering caused by our cultural commodities.

Who decides how history gets written?

A historian explores his own family's history to understand the African-American community’s internal pigmentocracy and the absurdity of racial binaries.

Can the racialist and eugenicist roots of statistics be cordoned off from “proper” science?

After February 28, 1967, the main reason to go was to get a job.

Her long-unpublished novel was the culmination of a years-long fascination. What does it reveal about her fraught views on civil rights?

“The world didn’t give It, but the world can’t take It away.”

On the literary and cinematic legacy of white supremacy in the United States.

Can language unify the people?

The surprising influence of premillennial eschatology on American culture.