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Scientists Excavating Tulsa Race Massacre Site Unearth Skeleton With Bullet Wounds

Forensic analysis indicates that human remains discovered in a mass grave included a Black man who had been shot multiple times, as efforts to document the crimes continue. 

Ross Douthat: What Progressives Want, and What Conservatives Are Fighting

Times columnist Ross Douthat looks at the latest battle in the history curriculum wars and concludes that progressive efforts to tell hidden stories about the American past have bled into efforts to craft radical narratives that the nation's founding is inherently corrupted by racism. 

An Oral History of the Lesbian Avengers

The Lesbian Avengers organized and demonstrated in the 1990s to fight homophobia and sexism within the movement for queer liberation.

National Museum of American History Names New Board Leadership

The Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History Board recently elected Enrique Segura, chairman of the board of ENSE Group LLC, and Barbara Franklin, former U.S. secretary of commerce and business executive, to lead its 22-member advisory board. 

Congress Is Poised To Take Back Some Of Its War Powers From The President

US Rep. Barbara Lee was among the few opponents of giving George W. Bush authority to invade Afghanistan and Iraq. Her resolution to repeal that legislation now has more than 130 cosponsors. 

The Rise and Fall of an American Tech Giant

Writer Kaitlyn Tiffany considers the impact of the Kodak company's product on American culture and the city of Rochester where she grew up, and the way that digital technology has changed both. 

‘Cynical and Illegitimate’: Higher-Ed Groups Assail Legislative Efforts to Restrict Teaching of Racism

What’s happening in state houses right now, said AHA executive director Jim Grossman, is not about scholarship or scholarly debate. “It is about riling up voters.”

Critical Race Theory Battle Invades School Boards — with Help from Conservative Groups

"The growth of school board-focused groups has coincided with a broader conservative effort to make critical race theory a national referendum on the discussion of race in America."

Virginia Theological Seminary Pays Reparations to Descendants of Enslaved and Jim Crow Laborers

VTS, founded in 1823, said in a 2019 statement that it “recognizes that enslaved persons worked on the campus and that even after slavery ended, VTS participated in segregation. VTS recognizes that we must start to repair the material consequences of our sin in the past.”

Supreme Court Rejects Sentence Reductions for Minor Crack Offenses

Justices disagreed about what lessons to draw from the history of the 1986 Crime Bill that created the sentencing disparity for crack cocaine offenses. Does the fact that some Black organizations at the time supported the law excuse its racist impact? 

Opinion: The Palestinian Political Class has Become a Heavy Burden on the People

Two observers of the Palestinian political scene argue that the leading factions of Hamas and Fatah are more motivated to maintain their own power than to support a growing, youth-led Palestinian movement for justice. 

Hideki Tojo's Ashes Scattered By US, Documents Reveal

"Japanese lecturer Hiroaki Takazawa at Tokyo's Nijon University found the declassified documents at the US National Archives in Washington DC."

Rand Paul Offers an Accidentally Useful Jim Crow Analogy in Rationalizing His Party’s Illiberal Shift

Rand Paul's comments that Jim Crow laws were a product of democracy reveals the degree to which he and the Republican Party seek to justify their antidemocratic approach to election law. 

Demonizing Critical Race Theory

by Charles M. Blow

Times columnist Charles Blow doesn't "even believe that most people have any real concept of what critical race theory is. It’s just a collection of words that hint, to them, at agitation and aggrievement."

Plantation Planned Juneteenth Event that would Tell the Stories of Displaced ‘White Refugees’

Was the planned event unduly sympathetic to slave owners, or a reflection of the historical intertwining of the lives of Black and White southerners? 

Teachers Across the Country Protest Laws Restricting Lessons on Racism

by Valerie Strauss

Several thousand teachers have signed a pledge that says: “We, the undersigned educators, refuse to lie to young people about U.S. history and current events — regardless of the law.”

The Complicated History Behind BLM's Solidarity With The Pro-Palestinian Movement

"We need to understand that Black identification with Zionism predates the formation of Israel as a modern state," says Robin D. G. Kelley, a historian at the University of California, Los Angeles who studies social movements.

Racist Mural Puts Tate Galleries in a Bind

Portions of a Rex Whistler mural in the Tate's restaurant contain racially offensive images. The work as a whole is protected by British heritage laws and can't be altered, putting the museum in a bind between preservation and cultural sensitivity. 

‘What the Hell Happened?’ Inside the Nikole Hannah-Jones Tenure Case

James Leloudis, a history professor at UNC, had extensive conversations with Walter Hussman, but apparently failed to sway his opposition to the appointment of the NYT reporter and 1619 Project creator with tenure at Chapel Hill. 

Deb Haaland: My Grandparents Were Stolen from their Families as Children. We Must Learn about this History

by Deb Haaland

My great-grandfather was taken to Carlisle Indian School in Pennsylvania. Its founder coined the phrase “kill the Indian, and save the man,” which genuinely reflects the influences that framed these policies at the time.