W.E.B. Du Bois

Getting out from under the "liberal international order."

Not a white equivalent of Black History Month, but a better understanding of the concept of whiteness and the harm it inflicts.

What remains of Hugh Magnum's work documents how much was shared in common by people who racist laws treated as separate.

Carter G. Woodson’s unpublished work was discovered in 2005 by a Howard University history professor.

Black people emerged from the war bloodied and scarred. Still, the war marked a turning point in their struggles for freedom.

Voter suppression tactics have roots in Southern history dating to the Antebellum era.

50 years after King's death, his image has been transformed and stripped of its radicalism.

Du Bois's ideas about the environment — and how Jim Crow shaped them — have gone relatively unnoticed by environmental historians.

Du Bois's "Black Reconstruction in America" showed that the black freedom struggle has always been one for radical democracy.

With democracy in peril, Du Bois reminds us of the long fight to protect it.

Black intellectuals in the U.S.—from W. E. B. Du Bois to Marcus Garvey—had strong and divergent opinions on Japanese Empire.

Commemoration of the 14th Amendment must not display the abundance of freedom, but the hunger for it on both sides of the border.

A central component of the history of racism is the intersection in which geography and race collide.

Here’s why that didn’t work during WWI.

An examination of the tragic echoes of Reconstruction-era politics following Obama's presidency.

On VE Day, we remember black Americans' Double V campaign: victory in Europe against fascism, victory at home against racism.

A documentary attempts to remember forgotten lynching victims.

Why an historian is compiling a digital database of the military records of 200,000+ black Union soldiers.

American niceness is the absolute worst thing to ever happen in human history.

When he promised to put America first in his inaugural speech, Donald Trump drew on a slogan with a long and sinister history.