W.E.B. Du Bois

A dispute between some scholars and the authors of NYT Magazine’s issue on slavery represents a fundamental disagreement over the trajectory of U.S. society.

The historical interpretations crafted by the men of the Dunning School might now be largely discredited and discarded. But their legacies remain.

Eric Foner has helped us better understand the ambiguous consequences of what were almost always only partial victories.

A new three-part PBS documentary explores the failure of Reconstruction and the Redemption of the South.

The gravest danger to American democracy isn’t an excess of vitriol—it’s the false promise of civility.

An excerpt from ‘We Return Fighting,’ a groundbreaking exploration of African American involvement in World War I.

The making of the black working class.

The black filmmaker Oscar Micheaux was one of the first to make films for a black audience, a rebuke to racist movies like "The Birth of a Nation."

"You can't disentangle blackness and California."

W. E. B. Du Bois died on this day in 1963. Few figures were more influential in shaping the struggle against colonialism.

For generations, Southern white elites have been terrified of poor whites and black workers joining hands.

The reparations debate highlights what Juneteenth is about: freedom and demanding accountability for past and present wrongs.

The Red Summer represented one of the darkest and bloodiest moments in American history.

Lady Liberty was inspired by the end of the Civil War and emancipation. The connection to immigration came later.

How one of America's original Bernie Bros became an outspoken critic of the left.

A new book rescues the Poor People’s Campaign from its reputation as a desperate last cry of the civil rights movement.

Southern newspapers played a major role in racial violence. Do they owe their communities an apology?

Unearthing the beauty in the wayward, the fiction in the facts, and the thriving existence in the face of a blanked out history.

Several 2020 presidential candidates have called for reparations for slavery in the U.S.

During Reconstruction, true citizenship finally seemed in reach for black Americans. Then their dreams were dismantled.