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How American Racism Shaped Nazism

American democracy and liberty might appear to be the opposite of the fascism and horrors of Nazi Germany. But for

In 2010, two historians edited a collection of thirteen essays written by white historians about “The Myth of Southern Exceptionalism.”

Sunday, July 27, 1919, was a hot, sweltering, sunny day at Chicago’s Twenty-Ninth Street Beach. When fourteen-year-old Eugene Williams, who

This post is the introduction to our online roundtable on Judith Weisenfeld’s New World A-Coming In the opening pages of New World A-Coming: Black

This fall I am teaching African American History Since 1863, starting with the event of Emancipation as a legal-juridical happening