Unabridged American history
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It's up to you
to seek the truth
to know your history
the difference between me and you
—Living Colour
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It is not knowledge we lack. It is the courage to understand what we know.
—Sven Lindqvist
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Born in slavery: slave narratives from the Federal Writers' Project
Stories of slavery from those who survived it
We’ve got to tell the unvarnished truth
America was conceived in racism
Understanding our history of racial injustice
Trump’s America was never a democracy
EJI Community Remembrance Project
The National Memorial for Peace and Justice
The Legacy Museum: From Enslavement to Mass Incarceration
The National Museum of African American History & Culture
A timeline of Black history in America
How the South won the Civil War
How the myth of a liberal North erases a long history of white violence
Many of the racial injustices we associate with the South are actually worse in the North
The history of modern racism and segregation above the Mason-Dixon line
The strange careers of the Jim Crow North
Deeper roots of Northern slavery unearthed
The enduring legacy of slavery and racism in the North
How whites benefitted from Reconstruction
How Black freedom benefitted poor whites
How the fight to protect slavery led to the Texas revolution