Past Voices
How the first Pilgrims and the Puritans differed in their views on religion and respect for Native Americans. By Michael Carrafiello / The Conversation
That Time Mississippi Reinvented Slavery With Its ‘Black Codes.’ By Erik Loomis / Wonkette
America Has Done Mass Deportation Before. By Eric Foner / The Nation
Scholars Thought White Women Were Passive Enslavers. They Were Wrong. By Rachel L. Swarns / NYT
A decade after Marion Barry’s death, many show they haven’t forgotten him. By Keith L. Alexander and Emma Uber / Wash Post
On Blood-Soaked Ground, a ‘Prayer for the Future’ of a Divided Land. By Dan Barry / NYT
Malcolm X Suggests Cure To Racism In Newly-Discovered Handwritten Letter. By Kimberly Richards / HuffPost
Hundreds of 19th-century skulls collected in the name of medical science tell a story of who mattered and who didn’t. By Pamela L. Geller / The Conversation
Malcolm X’s family files $100 million wrongful death lawsuit, claims cover-up of his murder. By Tesfaye Negussie / ABC News
Harriet Tubman posthumously named a general in Veterans Day ceremony. By AP and NPR
Memorial service honors first Tulsa Race Massacre victim identified from mass graves. By DeNeen L. Brown / Wash Post
How pioneering Black liberals battled Thomas Jefferson’s “Dark Age.” By Paul Rosenberg / Salon
When a Multi-Racial Democracy Was Violently Overthrown in America. By Ed. Rampell / The Progressive
Maulana Karenga, Operational Unity, and the Black Power Movement. By M. Keith Claybrook, Jr / AAIHS
A Forgotten Eyewitness to Civil-Rights-Era Mississippi. By Paige Williams / The New Yorker
New Haven, Connecticut turned down what would have been the first Black college in 1831. Now, city officials might apologize. By Dawn Sawyer / CNN
How Native Americans guarded their societies against tyranny. By Kathleen DuVal / The Conversation.
How the John Birch Society tried to radicalize the American right in the ’60s. By Nellie Gilles / NPR
The road to a slave-free Georgia: the little-known history of state founder James Oglethorpe. By George Chidi / The Guardian
America’s newest monuments unveil a different look at the nation’s past. By Krystal Nurse / USA Today
The Troubled History of Medical Harm to Black Women. By Savannah Flanagan / AAIHS
Nat Turner’s Rebellion: An American Tale Of Defiance And Tragedy. By NewsOne Staff
Tulsa Race Massacre Update: DOJ Review Called Long Overdue. By Bruce C.T. Wright / Newsone
African Americans and the First Black Republic. By Sherri V. Cummings / AAIHS
The Civil War Still Echoes in the South, Forcing Towns to Take Sides. By Scott Calvert and Cameron McWhirter / WSJ
Traditions of Resistance in the Black Diaspora. By Christina Proenza-Coles / AAIHS
