In disastrous interviews and his most famous novels, he struggled to reckon with racism and white supremacy.

How today's protests are struggling to reclaim the vision of the great abolitionist leader

They’re cheap, mass produced, and celebrate the Jim Crow South. So why do conservatives persist in calling them art?

Governments from Durham to Providence have launched racial equity initiatives, but the long work of restitution can’t stay a local matter.

The twenty-eighth U.S. president was a white supremacist. We all know this, in the abstract. But here’s how he wielded his racism against one accomplished Black American.

The ideology of the men who celebrated the United States while fighting for its dissolution is still very much alive.

It’s one of the largest military bases on earth. And since it opened, Fort Benning has been a monument to white supremacy.

The Hollywood classic is a soap opera and a war movie smashed together. It’s also really, really racist.

Why the far-right pushes the lie that black Americans fought as Confederate soldiers

“The Water Dancer” comes out of a powerful examination of the legacies of slavery today.

Why was the Golden State once chock-full of memorials to the Southern rebels?

Who wrote women out of Civil War history?

Andrew Johnson’s opponents discovered the difficulties of removing a president.

Recovering the profound divisions that led to the Civil War

The country is divided. We should still fight for it.

A new book documents the legislative turmoil that led to the Civil War.

Can exhuming Francisco Franco make a Spanish Civil War monument less fascist?

How a vital term in U.S. political life lost its significance—and could regain it today

The 200-year legal struggle that led to Citizens United and gave corporations the rights of people