Freedom's Dominion

When viewing federal authority as a bulwark for civil rights against local tyranny, we miss what the U.S. government has done to sustain white freedom.

A new book seeks to explain why many Americans, especially but not exclusively in the South, have understood freedom as an entitlement for white people.

For many historians today, the present is forever trapped in the past and defined by the worst of it.

A new book traces the long history of cloaking racism in the language of resistance to an overbearing federal government.

On the terror that filled the void left by the retreat of federal authority in the South.