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By Julia Johnson | July 6, 2021 | 4:15pm EDT Nikole Hannah-Jones, inaugural Knight Chair in Race and Journalism at the Howard University School of Communications. (Getty Images) On Tuesday, July 6, the architect of the infamous 1619 Project, Nikole Hannah-Jones, announced to CBS This Morning her decision to decline the University of North Carolina’s offer for tenure, after initially being denied it, and accept a position at Howard University as a chaired professor.  “I’ve decided to decline the offer of tenure. I will not be teaching on the faculty ...

An African-American family in Southern Mississippi in 1895.Credit...Sepia Times/Universal Images Group, via Getty Images This is the story of how a bill to save the vote and preserve a semblance of democracy for millions of Americans died at the hands of an intransigent, reactionary minority in the Senate, which used the filibuster to do its dirty work. In the summer of 1890, the state of Mississippi held its second constitutional convention of the post-Civil War era. The first, in 1868, was an attempt to make biracial democracy a reality. This second was meant to be the final nail in its cof...

Baton Rouge: LSU Press, 202. Pp. xii, 292. Notes, index.. $50.00. ISBN: 0807169692 Essays on Civil War America A festschrift honoring noted Civil War scholar George C. Rable, American Discord consists of 15 papers looking at neglected subjects in the history of the war. The essays are grouped in three broad categories: “Enemies Must be Defined: Party Politics and Political Culture”, “Rippling Effects: Political and Military Conflicts”, and “A Thermidorian Reaction: Reconstruction and Counterrevolution”. All of the papers offer innovative insights into th...