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Hidden figures: How black women preachers spoke truth to power

by Kenyatta R. Gilbert February 9, 2019April 7, 2021
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Blind Spots: Selective Memory in Brazilian and U.S. Histories

by Andrew Jenner June 25, 2018September 27, 2023
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Who will speak for Alabama's ghosts?

by Christine Folch May 11, 2018October 1, 2020
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Talking about mass shootings involves silence about American history

by Brandon R. Byrd April 13, 2018October 27, 2020
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Mississippi's truth-telling new museum

by Ellen Ann Fentress December 22, 2017September 16, 2020
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Flora Crater, Southern state politics, and the ERA

by Matthew Braswell September 19, 2017September 16, 2020
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The massacre men

by David Forbes July 27, 2017September 27, 2023
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I want the world to know about this place

by Kari Mugo July 9, 2017November 13, 2023
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Atlanta and the politics of the losing South

by Robert Greene June 18, 2017September 16, 2020
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Review: In Blue Texas, all that is old is new again

by Sammy Feldblum May 2, 2017October 27, 2020
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What kind of landscapes should we build in the South?

by Kofi Boone March 23, 2017September 16, 2020
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Here are the freedom songs of the Movement for Black Lives

by Willie Jamaal Wright February 9, 2017September 16, 2020
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The South knows about White backlash. Here's what Reconstruction can teach us about today's crisis.

by David Eil February 1, 2017January 6, 2021
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Why are dinosaurs fighting Confederate soldiers in Virginia?

by Collin Whitt January 5, 2017September 16, 2020
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Which Civil War will Richmond choose to remember?

by Michael Fraade December 1, 2016September 27, 2023
Posted inPOLITICS & THE PEOPLE

Who gets to be remembered in Chapel Hill?

by Jonathan Michels October 8, 2016December 3, 2020
Posted inRACE & PLACE

Review: Class war and the Confederacy in "Free State of Jones"

by Cedric Johnson October 6, 2016October 1, 2020
Posted inARTS & SOUL

Photo essay: This school teaches reading, writing, and pride

by Robin Rayne Nelson September 12, 2016November 13, 2023
Posted inPOLITICS & THE PEOPLE

Where do the police come from?

by Neal Shirley and Saralee Stafford September 7, 2016September 16, 2020
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Looking for truth and family at a Southern university

by Edith Dunlap September 3, 2016November 13, 2023
Posted inPOLITICS & THE PEOPLE

Clemson University has a John C. Calhoun problem

by Jonathan Beecher Field August 30, 2016November 13, 2023
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Here's what the Angola 3 dreamt up in solitary

by Holly Genovese August 18, 2016June 23, 2021
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You've never heard of Jackie Stump, but he might be the antidote to Donald Trump

by Sarah Jones July 7, 2016September 16, 2020
Posted inARTS & SOUL

Who's got the blues anymore?

by Sarah Gibson June 2, 2016September 16, 2020
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Why I believe that we will win

by Jen Ansley April 7, 2016October 1, 2020
Posted inPOLITICS & THE PEOPLE

Could Zika overrun the South?

by Ali McGhee March 24, 2016September 16, 2020
Posted inRACE & PLACE

Race, rubella, and the long road to abortion reform

by Cynthia R. Greenlee February 18, 2016October 27, 2020
Posted inPOLITICS & THE PEOPLE

Police and the silent majority

by Seth Farber February 9, 2016September 16, 2020
Posted inPOLITICS & THE PEOPLE

What's San Antonio trying to prove?

by Sol Weiner January 12, 2016November 13, 2023
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The more things change… "Redeemers" and Republicans

by Jesse Williams October 27, 2015September 16, 2020

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