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Allegiance, Birthright, and Race in America

“This post is part of our roundtable on “Contested Citizenship,” organized in collaboration with the Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study

On the night of March 29, 2019, an administrative building at the Highlander Research and Education Center in New Market,

The centennial of the Tulsa Massacre earlier this year provided a moment to reflect on perhaps the worst single incidence

Galveston, Texas, may best be remembered as the provenance of Juneteenth. However, in the universe of Black history, the island

While commentators often point to 2015 (after the Mother Emmanuel shooting) or 2017 (after the Charlottesville terrorist attack) as the