Hamilton despised slavery but didn’t confront George Washington or other slaveholders
As the Lin-Manuel Miranda musical streams on Disney Plus this weekend, a look at how Alexander Hamilton set aside his…
The creator of Mount Rushmore’s forgotten ties to white supremacy
Sculptor Gutzon Borglum was deeply involved with the Ku Klux Klan while designing the Confederate memorial at Stone Mountain outside…
A ‘gay homeland’ undone by homophobia and racism
What happened when a biracial couple tried to establish a gay community called Stonewall Park in the Nevada desert during…
From yellow fever to coronavirus, keeping the mail safe
The practice of disinfecting the mail during pandemics goes back hundreds of years
Frederick Douglass delivered a Lincoln reality check at Emancipation Memorial unveiling
During the speech, Douglass said Lincoln was “the white man’s president, devoted to the welfare of white men.”
