Josephine Baker Becomes First Black Woman Inducted Into the French Panthéon
On Tuesday the entertainer, civil rights activist, and French Resistance hero joined the likes of 80 other luminaries, including Voltaire, Victor Hugo, and Marie Curie.
Who’s an American? Another Look at the Immigration Debate
Author Jia Lynn Yang reexamines the immigration debate and how it still centers on 'Americanness' and ethnicity
The History of Political Protests at the Olympic Games
Throughout the 125-year history of the Olympic games, the storied event has been a successful platform for protest
Nine Days: The Race to Save Martin Luther King Jr.’s Life Review
The battle to free the civil rights leader from a notorious Georgia prison was central to the 1960 presidential election
Hot Issues in 1918 Midterm Election Roil U.S. Politics Today
Wilson's war was almost over and women's suffrage was near, but there was a pandemic and the country was polarized over Prohibition
The Supreme Court Decision That Changed America: Brown v. Board of Education
Finally, the justices overturned Jim Crow, tossing out Plessy v. Ferguson 'separate but equal' standard
James Baldwin’s Challenge to America: Not Your Negro and Not Willing to Settle
The esteemed 20th-century writer demanded that White society accept its culpability in the betrayal of Black people
American History Review: New Orleans’ Culture a Gumbo Built on Jazz and Freedom
The hidden history of Economy Hall recalls a brotherhood of Black leaders who built a vibrant community.
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
‘Conviction’ Review: A Closer Examination of Thurgood Marshall’s Rare Yet Cunning Courtroom Defeat
A new book examines one of Marshall's few courtroom failures – a 1941 Oklahoma case that 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
