Past Voices
Black Women and Civil War Pensions. By Holly A. Pinheiro, Jr / AAIHS
Arguments on the Left: U.S. History. Three short essays from Michael Kazin, Nikhil Pal Singh, and Barbara Ransby. / Dissent
7 Black Men Who Were Executed In Virginia Are Now Pardoned. By Jonathan Franklin / NPR
During the 1963 March on Washington, these Black girls were locked up in Georgia. By Dan Rosenzweig-Ziff / Wash Post
The Black Roots of “Rights and Privileges” By Kerri Greenidge / AAIHS
U.S. boarding schools for Indians had a hidden agenda: Stealing land. By Brenda J. Child / Wash Post
He’s In Prison For Killing A Trooper. Now, Some Black Police Groups Want Him Released. By Sharon Pruitt Young / NPR
Undoing the injustices of Jim Crow juries. By CBS News
These headstones in a historic Black cemetery were desecrated. State leaders take step toward giving descendants closure. By Emma Tucker and Laura Ly / CNN
Josephine Baker will be the first Black woman buried at the Panthéon in Paris. By Leah Asmelash / CNN
The Harlem Hellfighters Were War Heroes. Then They Came Home to Racism. By Precious Fondren / NYT
Civil Rights Legend Lucille Times Dies At 100 Years Old. By Rachel Pilgrim / The Root
An Inspiring Act of Racial Healing in Chattanooga. By Peter Canellos / NYT
The Long History of American Cruelty. By Daniel Steinmetz-Jenkins / The Nation
Black Women, the Civil War, and United States Colored Troop. By Holly A. Pinheiro Jr. / AAIHS
Remembering, Rethinking, and Renaming the Watts Rebellion. By M. Keith Claybrook Jr. / AAIHS
The disturbing history of how conservatorships were used to exploit, swindle Native Americans. By Andrea Seielstad / The Conversation
No Common Ground” Makes the History of Confederate Monuments Clear By Eric Herschthal / The New Republic
The Black Reporter Who Exposed a Lie About the Atom Bomb. By William J. Broad / NYT
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/07/27/opinion/us-founding-fathers-constitution.html
George Washington Feared for America and Other Truths About the Founders We’ve Frozen in Time. By Jamelle Bouie / NYT
American Education Is Founded on White Race Theory. By Anthony Conwright / The New Republic
LBJ’s daughter takes up her father’s cause: voting rights. By Nikole Killion / CBS News
South Carolina must replace a Confederate statue in the U.S. Capitol with this total badass. SemDem for Community Contributors Team / DailyKos
The Revolution That Wasn’t: A Review of “By the Light of Burning Dreams.” By Michael Abramson / The New Republic
Protest, Property, and the Black Press. By E. James West / AAIHS
