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The Times-Picayune’s Historical Use of the N-Word

The News Orleans daily newspaper the Times-Picayune, since its founding on January 25, 1837, and throughout 1914, when it merged

Margaret Burnham’s By Hands Now Known: Jim Crow’s Legal Executioners (W.W. Norton & Company, 2022) excavates little-known accounts of violence

On November 2, 1914, twenty eight-year-old James H. Teagle, the “colored” chauffeur for Philadelphia City Controller John Walton, left his

Throughout much of the twentieth century, Florida’s warm climate and long sunny days managed to attract the nation’s elites. The

Within a frame of a two competing ideas of the United States “one liberal, the other illiberal,” Journalism and Jim Crow