white supremacy - AAIHS

W.E.B. Du Bois, Gender, and Black History

In Axel’s Castle, critic Edmund Wilson wrote of Gertrude Stein’s enigmatic novel of nearly a thousand pages, The Making of Americans,

In hindsight, historians of American immigration will be pressed to name the first two decades of the twenty-first century as

In historical understandings of racial violence against African Americans in the United States, lynching typically summons imagery of white crime

Over the past year a flurry of studies and op-eds highlighting diminished opportunities for economic advancement among people of color

In a 1968 interview, television personality Dick Cavett asked James Baldwin, renowned author-activist, what many white Americans at that time