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How the 'New Woman' Blazed a Trail of Empowerment

A new retrospective examines the artistic production of women at the intersections of new photographic technology and rising currents of racism and antisemitism in early 20th-century Europe. 

Her Family Owned Slaves. How Can She Make Amends?

"For almost three years now, with the fervor of the newly converted, Ms. Marshall has been on a quest that from the outside may seem quixotic and even naïve. She is diving into her family’s past and trying to chip away at racism in the Deep South, where every white family with roots here benefited from slavery and almost every Black family had enslaved ancestors."

Texas State History Museum Abruptly Cancels Speech by Authors of New Book on The Alamo

Chris Tomlinson tweeted Thursday night that he presumes the event was canceled because "we don't regurgitate the propaganda that [Governor Greg] Abbott's Texas 1836 Project wants to promote." 

At 100 Years Old, it's Time to Recognize the Chinese Communist Party is Here to Stay

by Yi-Zheng Lian

Unlike their Soviet predecessors, the Chinese Communist Party has figured out how to maintain a lasting hold on power. Western critics hoping for its demise will be disappointed. 

Breaking and Analysis: Supreme Court on 6-3 Vote Rejects Voting Rights Act Section 2 Case in Brnovich Case— A Significant Weakening of Section 2

by Rick Hasen

"The conservative Supreme Court has taken away all the major available tools for going after voting restrictions. This at a time when some Republican states are passing new restrictive voting law."

Nikole Hannah-Jones Finally Has Been Granted Tenure. But the Damage Is Already Done.

It's uncertain that the Board of Trustees' decision to grant tenure to Nikole Hannah-Jones will lead her to join the University of North Carolina, and unlikely that the decision will erase the damage done by conservative interference in university governance. 

Nikole Hannah-Jones Granted Tenure by UNC Trustees

The vote was 9-4, after a number of protesters were removed from the room. It is not now known if Hannah-Jones will now accept the appointment at UNC. 

CSPAN Poll of Presidential Leadership: Trump Beats Pierce, Buchanan and Andrew Johnson; Lincoln #1

Read the results of the annual CSPAN Historian poll of presidential leadership. Sure to have something to please/anger everyone!

Will Bunch: Campus ‘Red Scare’ takes Florida back to the ’50s

Columnist Will Bunch argues that the nationwide attack on "Critical Race Theory" echoes the anticommunist politics Hofstadter described in "The Paranoid Style," which he discusses with education professor Robert Dahlgren.

The World’s Museums Are Working Out How to Remember the Pandemic

Trends upward for vaccination and downward for new infections mean that people are able to return to in-person museum visits. Are they ready to view exhibitions on the pandemic? 

Liquor Laws Once Targeted Gay Bars. Now, One State Is Apologizing.

New Jersey's liquor commission has released documents that show how it applied liquor laws to close gay bars, showing how marginalized groups can be singled out through bureaucratic means. 

Does Banning Holocaust Denial on Social Media also Block Education?

Incidents where social media algorithms take down articles that explore legitimate controversies about the Holocaust suggest that the work of controlling denialism and hate speech needs more refinement. 

Finally: Tenure Vote for Hannah-Jones

by Colleen Flaherty

The Board of Trustees for the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill will hold a special meeting Wednesday, reportedly to vote on tenure for journalist Nikole Hannah-Jones.

Matt Yglesias: Conservatives Can't Win the History Wars

Matt Yglesias looks at the CRT controversy and Ross Douthat's recent column on teaching history, and concludes that conservatives aren't mad at America looking bad in revisionist history, but about conservatives looking bad. 

House Will Vote on Bill to Remove Confederate Statues from Capitol

The bill would remove from public view monuments to figures associated with the Confederacy or the causes of slavery and white supremacy that motivated it, including a bust of Chief Justice Roger Taney, author of the notorious Dred Scott decision. 

The Far Right’s College Crusade

"As some campus Republicans move toward the far right, what was previously an assault on higher education from groups based largely outside academe has become an inside job."

Ron Brownstein: What Manchin and Sinema Can Learn from Lincoln Republicans on Voting Rights

It's increasingly clear that the choice isn't between partisan and bipartisan legislation to protect voting rights, but between partisan legislation and none. But the 14th and 15th Amendments were themselves partisan. 

Independent Lens Presents: The People Vs. Agent Orange

Two women activists demand accountability from the chemical industry for the toll of illness and death caused by Agent Orange. 

The U.N. Rights Chief Says Reparations Are Needed For People Facing Racism

The UN High Commissioner for Human Rights called on nations to "stop denying and start dismantling" racism through means including, but not limited to, monetary compensation. 

50 Years Ago, Daniel Ellsberg — Who Leaked The Pentagon Papers — Surrendered At Boston Federal Court

Daniel Freudberg covered Daniel Ellsberg's trial as a teenager. Here, he recalls the experience and the real-time impact of the Pentagon Papers' publication.