Intra-nation conflicts are on the rise—and no, the United States is not immune.

A gargantuan monument to the rebel general will come down in the capital of the Confederacy.

One Texas Republican state House member wants to create a “patriotic” education project to celebrate the Lone Star State—and whitewash its ugly past.

What an old poem says about the search for justice following the Capitol riot

How 150 years of apocalyptic agitation culminated in an insurrection

Why we can’t afford to make peace with white supremacists

Three new books show how Northern states betrayed Black people, and why many found Mexico a safer destination.

A new book argues that the threat of secession has never left American politics.

In disastrous interviews and his most famous novels, he struggled to reckon with racism and white supremacy.

How today's protests are struggling to reclaim the vision of the great abolitionist leader

They’re cheap, mass produced, and celebrate the Jim Crow South. So why do conservatives persist in calling them art?

Governments from Durham to Providence have launched racial equity initiatives, but the long work of restitution can’t stay a local matter.

The twenty-eighth U.S. president was a white supremacist. We all know this, in the abstract. But here’s how he wielded his racism against one accomplished Black American.

The ideology of the men who celebrated the United States while fighting for its dissolution is still very much alive.

It’s one of the largest military bases on earth. And since it opened, Fort Benning has been a monument to white supremacy.

The Hollywood classic is a soap opera and a war movie smashed together. It’s also really, really racist.

Why the far-right pushes the lie that black Americans fought as Confederate soldiers

“The Water Dancer” comes out of a powerful examination of the legacies of slavery today.

Why was the Golden State once chock-full of memorials to the Southern rebels?

Who wrote women out of Civil War history?