Past Voices
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
Reviving a Crop and an African-American Culture, Stalk by Stalk. By Kim Severson and Photographs by Rinne Allen / NYT
Democrats Push ‘Abolition Amendment’ To Fully Erase Slavery From U.S. Constitution. By Brakkton Booker / NPR
Montgomery Bus Boycott: The WPC and Black women’s leadership today. By Safiya Charles / Montogomery Advertiser
1918 Germany Has a Warning for America. Donald Trump’s “Stop the Steal” campaign recalls one of the most disastrous political lies of the 20th century. By Jochen Bittner / NYT
Reckoning with slavery: What a revolt’s archives tell us about who owns the past. By Marjoleine Kars / The Conversation
Finding the last ship known to have brought enslaved Africans to America and the descendants of its survivors. By Anderson Cooper / CBS News
George Washington’s 1795 Thanksgiving celebrated liberty. But the chef behind the feast had none. By Ramin Ganeshram / Wash Post
What you learned about the first Thanksgiving isn’t true. Here’s the real story. By Eryn Dion / USA Today
Graves found at site of historic Virginia Black church. By Michael E. Ruane / Wash Post
Amiri Baraka, Black Music, and Black Modernity. By Wilton Schereka / AAIHS
The Black Native American descendants fighting for the right to belong. By Claire Tighe / NBC News
UC Berkeley removed the names of ‘racist’ figures from two of its buildings. By Christina Zdanowicz / CNN
