Past Voices
He unearthed his roots. Now he digs up lost stories of enslaved people. By Sydney Page / Wash Post
Slave memoirs yanked the veil off of America’s facade. By Zahara Hill / MSNBC
Rare 1892 Portrait Found Of Harriet Tubman At Age 70. By Stacy Jackson / Black Enterprise
Why Black Americans Should Commemorate The History Of Liberia. By Roger House / The Hill
Philadelphia’s ‘Black Shining Prince.’ By Menika Dirkson / AAIHS
How Wall Street Funded Slavery. By David Montero / Time
Charlotte Forten Describes Life on the Sea Islands. By Charlotte Forten Grimké / The Atlantic (May 1864 Issue)
Charlie Kirk’s racist Black pilot comment, meet the Tuskegee Airmen. By Mike Freeman / USA Today
The Crime Novelist Who Was Also a Great American Novelist. By S. A. Cosby / NYT
Slavery From the Inside — as Only a Slave Could Show It. By Carl Rollyson / The NY Sun
Home Front: Black Women Unionists in the Confederacy. By Matthew Wills / JSTOR
Decades after suspected arson, a historic Black church in Pennsylvania reopens as a Black history museum. By Kaitlyn Schwanemann / CNN
5 MLK speeches you should know besides ‘I Have a Dream.’ By Scott Neuman / NPR
The Perfectionist Tradition. By William P. Jones / Dissent Magazine
The Home of Carter G. Woodson, the Man Behind Black History Month. By Anna Kode’ / NYT
Historic sermon by Gina Stewart at joint Black Baptist meeting draws cheers, controversy. By Adelle M. Banks / RNS
Florida Republicans want to block removal of Confederate monuments. By Gary Fineout / Politico
Efforts to memorialize lynching victims divide American communities. By Rachel Hatzipanagos / Wash Post
91 Years in a Segregated Mental Institution. By Linda Villarosa / NYT
The Senate’s only Black Republican now loves Trump. It’s not a good look. By Lz Granderson / LA Times
Notoriously Conservative 5th Circuit Court Of Appeals Was Once A Leader In Expanding Civil Rights. By Jonathan Entin / TPM
Why Did Nat Turner “Confess”? By Patrick Rael / AAIHS
Heather Cox Richardson and the battle over American history. By Kim Phillips-Fein / The Nation
What Is the History of Fascism in the United States? By Richard J. Evans / The Nation
121 potential gravesites found in former Black cemetery at Air Force base. By AP and NPR
Haley sparks a 2024 debate: Whether the U.S. is (or ever was) a racist country. By Mariana Alfaro and Maegan Vazquez / Wash Post
The suppressed history of the civil rights movement that could help defeat Donald Trump. By Chauncey Devega / Salon
Confederate monuments spark debate about history. By Kiara Alfonseca / ABC News
How we learn to see history: A case study at the National Cathedral. By Sarah Lewis / Wash Post
Convict Leasing in the Family. By Menika Dirkson / AAIHS
