Past Voices
Preserving New York’s Ties to the Underground Railroad. By John Freeman Gill / NYT
2021’s call to Reconstruction. By E. J. Dionne Jr. / Wash Post
How a courageous Southern governor broke ranks with segregationists in 1961. By John Drescher / Wash Post
New Native American memorial offers peace in the heart of one of the city’s few wild spaces. By Philip Kennicott / Wash Post
1st Chinese American lawyer gets Columbia Law honor, highlights past barriers. By Kimmy Yam / NBC News
Don’t ‘better explain’ the Emancipation Memorial. Put up monuments to Black people instead. By Karen Attiah / Wash Post
Statue Of Lincoln With Formerly Enslaved Man At His Feet Is Removed In Boston. Bill Chappell / NPR
The Haunting of Tulsa, Okla. A recently unearthed mass grave may soon provide answers about what happened to victims of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre. By Brent Staples / NYT
Sculpture honors 1st Black president of an American college. By Lisa Rathke / ABC News
‘Most Important Indian,’ And Treaty Rights Advocate Hank Adams Dies At 77. By Jaclyn Diaz / NPR
Ancient DNA Is Changing How We Think About the Caribbean. By David Reich and Orlando Patterson / NYT
What Was Christmas Like for America’s Enslaved People? By Ferrell Evans / History
Barbara Johns’ statue will replace that of Robert E. Lee in the US Capitol. By leah Asmelash / CNN
Lewis and Clark’s Long, Dark Winter. And Ours. By Timothy Egan / NYT
Here’s what might replace America’s disappearing Confederate monuments. By Phillip Morris / National Geographic
His Storied Life: James Wiley, Tuskegee Airman and American War Hero. By Charleen Smith-Riedel / Smithsonian Folklife
W.E.B. Du Bois Is as Relevant as Ever. By Norman Stockwell / The Progressive
Cowboy Confederates. The ideals of the Confederate South found new force in the bloody plains of the American West. By Jefferson Cowie / Dissent
Descendants of enslaved Blacks explore Virginia history. By Susan Svrluga / Wash Post
The Elusive Promise of the Underground Railroad. By Eric Herschthal / The New Republic
The founder of Johns Hopkins owned enslaved people. Our university must face a reckoning. By Martha S. Jones / Wash Post
“40 Years a Prisoner” confronts the police we’re supposed to trust “telling bold-faced lies.” By D. Watkins / Salon
The History of Seneca Falls You Didn’t Learn in School. By Olivia B. Waxman and video by Arpita Aneja / Time
New stamps honor Japanese American vets, Chinese American physicist. By Saloni Gajjar / NBC News
Southern history textbooks: A long history of deception. By Brian Lynn / Montgomery Advertiser
VMI removes statue of Confederate Gen. Stonewall Jackson after long resistance. By Ian Shapiro / Wash Post
