Past Voices
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
Letter from Selma. By Renata Adler / The New Yorker April 2, 1965
Black Music Sunday: We won’t water down the songs we sing for Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. By Denise Oliver Velez / Daily Kos
Lincoln’s Second Inaugural Address – Lincoln Memorial / National Park Service
W. E. B. Du Bois on Black ‘Double-Consciousness.’ / The Atlantic August 1897 Issue
Descendants fight to maintain historic Black communities. By AP and NBC News
70 years after Brown vs. Board of Education, public schools still deeply segregated. By Erica Frankenberg / The Conversation
U.S. Mint Releases Coins Honoring Harriet Tubman. By Shruti Rajkumar / Huff Post
What the Civil War Was About. By Paul Krugman / NYT
An Appeal for Impartial Suffrage. By Frederick Douglas / The Atlantic JANUARY 1867 ISSUE
South Carolina plaintiffs seek to correct the civil rights record. By Kathleen Parker / Wash Post
A racist mob destroyed her home. She was given the land 84 years later. By Timothy Bella / Wash Post
What Was Christmas Like For Slaves In America? By Bilal G. Morris / Newsone
100 years ago, the KKK planted bombs at a U.S. university – part of the terror group’s crusade against American Catholics. By William Trollinger / The Conversation
In the worst of America’s Jim Crow era, Black intellectual W.E.B. Du Bois found inspiration and hope in national parks. By Thomas S. Bremer / The Conversation
Confederate memorial to be removed in coming days from Arlington National Cemetery, despite some GOP pushback. AP News
Charlotte Forten Describes Life on the Sea Islands. By Charlotte Forten Grimké / The Atlantic
Movie Theaters, the Urban North, and Policing the Color Line. By Alyssa Lopez / AAIHS
What Happened When the U.S. Failed to Prosecute an Insurrectionist Ex-President. By Jill Lepore / The New Yorker
Unraveling Ulysses S. Grant’s Complex Relationship With Slavery. By John Reeves / Smithsonian Magazine
Longstreet: the Confederate general who switched sides on race. By Rich Tenorio / The Guardian
What to America is John Brown? By Ailish Hopper / Salon
The lesser-known history of the Monroe doctrine. By Benjamin Weber / Salon
US lawmakers push for federal holiday honoring Rosa Parks on the anniversary of her arrest. By Rikki Klaus / CNN
