Hidden history

History shouldn't be a mystery
Our story's real history
Not his story

Public Enemy

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Education is learning what you didn’t even know you didn’t know. 

—Daniel J. Boorstin

Hitler’s American model: The United States and the making of Nazi race law

The American influence on Nazi race law

How American racism influenced Hitler

Why the Nazis loved America

How the Nazis were inspired by Jim Crow

Hitler’s American bible & white nationalism’s deep American roots

How to hide an empire: a history of the greater United States

How the US has hidden its empire

Let’s open the closets of history

Enslaved people built, and were sold from, the White House · short video

Over a quarter of all American presidents have owned human beings

George Washington's teeth not from wood but enslaved people

The destruction of Seneca Village to build Central Park

The Great Dismal Swamp maroons

The myths of the Thanksgiving story and the lasting damage they imbue

When Reagan likened African UN delegates to monkeys

President Obama likely a descendant of the first enslaved African American—through the lineage of his white mother

Invade Haiti, Wall Street urged; the U.S. obliged

The myth of the Alamo: When Texans fought to enslave people

We have the Texas origin story all wrong

Correct the record · forget the Alamo

Truths of the US south and its ‘secular Mecca’

When slaveowners got reparations

How a racist film helped the Ku Klux Klan grow for generations

They were her property: white female slave owners in the American South

The overlooked role of female slave owners

Lewis, born Oluale Kossola, one of the last slaveship survivors, tells his story

The day the police bombed a US city street