American History Review: The Long and Loathsome Story of the Case that Codified Jim Crow
Author explores the personalities of the men who argued Plessy v. Ferguson, one of the Supreme Court's worst decisions
American History Review: Muckraking Magazine Became a Reforming Juggernaut
Citizen Reporters: S.S. McClure, Ida Tarbell, and the Magazine that Rewrote America, by Stephanie Gorton
American History Reviews: Thurgood Marshall’s Cunning Courtroom Defeat
On the surface, 1941 Oklahoma case was a painful shellacking, but it shocked the country and jumpstarted the civil rights movement
1937 Labor Board Case Upheld Workers’ Right to Organize
The court expanded the Gibbons standard to include labor relations and other activities with even an indirect effect on interstate commerce.
When Truth Spoke to Power
Freedom Rider Jerome Smith stood up to Robert Kennedy with shocking candor about violence against black Americans
Jazzman James Reese Europe Taught White America How to Swing
After leading Harlem Hellfighters in battle, renowned band leader lost his life in backstage fracas
How the Pecan Strike Cracked San Antonio’s Power Structure
Mexican-Americans' brave stand against city politicians, the Catholic Church, and the police changed labor history
Lincoln Memorial: A Temple of Tolerance
Cruel irony of segregated dedication ceremony has given way to reverence and rallies
Supreme Court OK’d Deporting Japanese-American Citizens to the Desert
Repudiated decision upheld presidential power to counter perceived national security threats
This Week in History – Women’s Suffrage 1869
The push for women to get the vote was disrupted by the Civil War, but the movement began to heat up again with Reconstruction.
Insidious Inspiration: How Jim Crow Inspired the Nazis
American statutes barring interracial sex and marriage were model for anti-Jewish Nuremberg laws
Manassas: How This Southern City Came To Be More Than a Battlefield
Destroyed in the war, isolated Virginia rail junction was rebuilt in a spirit of reconciliation
