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Northern Journalism in the Promotion of the Lost Cause

This post is part of our forum on “The Books, Archives, and Monuments That Shaped Me.” Since the age of

As a sport historian who focuses on issues of inclusion and exclusion in the twentieth century United States, Jackie Robinson

While America’s urban areas witnessed a massive boom in the popularity of motion pictures and moviegoing in the early twentieth

On May 22, 1917, the lynching of Ell Persons, a Black woodcutter, occurred in a carnival-type setting in Memphis, Tennessee.

On the occasion of the recent sixtieth anniversary of the March on Washington, many of us celebrated and remembered those who