Writing by Topic: Race

“Lyrical Paintings of Life Inside a WWII Internment Camp” (Slate‘s The Vault blog, September 29, 2016)
“A WWI-Era Memo Asking French Officers to Practice Jim Crow With Black American Troops” (Slate‘s The Vault blog, April 27, 2016)
“A ’70s Board Game Designed to Teach Players About Race, Housing, and Privilege” (Slate‘s The Vault blog, April 1, 2016)
“An Uncle Tom’s Cabin Tie-In Card Game, From 1852” (Slate‘s The Vault blog, March 21, 2016)
“Wistful Memories of the Confederacy, 50 Years After the Civil War” (Slate‘s The Vault blog, February 24, 2016)
“A Colorful Late-19th-Century Map of Native American Languages” (Slate‘s The Vault blog, February 22, 2016)
“The Hundreds of Life Stories Found in Coroner’s Reports from the 19th-Century South” (Slate‘s The Vault blog, February 19, 2016)
“How an 1830s Children’s Magazine Taught Hard Truths About Slavery” (Slate‘s The Vault blog, January 27, 2016)
“An Eloquent Baptist Protest Against Internment Camps During WWII” (Slate‘s The Vault blog, November 9, 2015)
“A Swiss Artist’s Sensitive Early-19th-Century Portraits of Native American Life” (Slate‘s The Vault blog, October 12, 2015)
“Most Records of Underground Railroad Activity Were Destroyed. Not This One” (Slate‘s The Vault blog, September 21, 2015)
“Browse Hundreds of Documents Submitted by Enslaved People Petitioning for Freedom” (Slate‘s The Vault blog, September 11, 2015)
“A Detailed Brochure for an 1855 Slave Auction Shows How People Were Sold as Property” (Slate‘s The Vault blog, August 20, 2015)
“Drawings of Apache Life, Made by a Prisoner of War in the Late 19th Century” (Slate‘s The Vault blog, August 4, 2015)
“The Hopeful, Heartbreaking Ads Placed by Formerly Enslaved People in Search of Lost Family” (Slate‘s The Vault blog, July 13, 2015)
“George Washington’s 1761 Ad Seeking Four Fugitive Slaves” (Slate‘s The Vault blog, July 10, 2015)
“Interactive Map Catalogs a History of Collective Violence Against Black Communities” (Slate‘s The Vault blog, July 6, 2015)
“’Caveat Emptor!’: The First Anti-Slavery Pamphlet Published in New England” (Slate‘s The Vault blog, May 22, 2015)
“Luminous Lantern Slides of Blackfeet Tipis on the Prairies of Montana in the Early 20th Century” (Slate‘s The Vault blog, May 15, 2015)
“What Was On a 1920s Membership Application for the KKK?” (Slate‘s The Vault blog, April 8, 2015)
“An 1864 Letter to American Women, Rallying Support for a Huge Anti-Slavery Petition Drive” (Slate‘s The Vault blog, February 11, 2015)
“Biographical Cartoons of Notable Black Americans, Drawn to Promote Unity During WWII” (Slate‘s The Vault blog, February 5, 2015)
“The Papers Late-19th-Century Chinese Immigrants Had to Carry To Prove Their Legal Status” (Slate‘s The Vault blog, January 30, 2015)
“Flyers for the Campaigns Martin Luther King Was Working on When He Was Assassinated” (Slate‘s The Vault blog, January 21, 2015)
“A Senator’s Open Christmas Letter to the Racially Divided City of Boston, 1974” (Slate‘s The Vault blog, December 24, 2014)
“How Railroads Advertised for Homesteaders to Settle in Indian Territory” (Slate‘s The Vault blog, November 25, 2014)
“A Quaker Printer’s Early 19th-Century Attempt To Convince New Yorkers of the Horrors of Slavery” (Slate‘s The Vault blog, November 13, 2014)
“This Map Shows Just How Divided the U.S. Was on Civil Rights in 1949” (Slate‘s The Vault blog, October 14, 2014)
“James Meredith, Determined to Enroll at Ole Miss, Declares His Purpose in a 1961 Letter” (Slate‘s The Vault blog, October 1, 2014)
“‘Human Life is Frightfully Cheap’: A 1900 Petition to Make Lynching a Federal Offense” (Slate‘s The Vault blog, September 16, 2014)
“A Kiowa Photographer’s Beautiful, Decades-Long Record of His Community and Family” (Slate‘s The Vault blog, September 3, 2014)
“The Testimony of a Laborer Forced Into Peonage in Early 20th-Century Alabama” (Slate‘s The Vault blog, August 29, 2014)
“The Disastrous Cordon Sanitaire Used in Honolulu’s Chinatown in 1900” (Slate‘s The Vault blog, August 15, 2014)
“A Photo Tour of the Flooded Mississippi, 1927” (Slate‘s The Vault blog, August 14, 2014)
“Photo Postcards Made to Celebrate the Ruins of Black Neighborhoods After the Tulsa Race Riot of 1921” (Slate‘s The Vault blog, July 29, 2014)
“A List of Missing Soldiers, Made After the First Black Union Army Regiment Stormed Fort Wagner” (Slate‘s The Vault blog, July 18, 2014)
“Reconstruction-Era Marriage Certificates of the Recently Emancipated” (Slate‘s The Vault blog, July 14, 2014)
“A Thank-You Note From the Amistad Rebels to One of Their Lawyers, John Quincy Adams” (Slate‘s The Vault blog, July 7, 2014)
“Interactive Time-Lapse Map Shows How the US took More Than 1.5 Billion Acres From Native Americans” (Slate‘s The Vault blog, June 17, 2014)
“A Unique Atlas Shows How Much of the Arctic Has Been Mapped by the Inuit” (Slate‘s The Vault blog, June 16, 2014)
“Where To Find Historical ‘Redlining’ Maps Of Your City” (Slate‘s The Vault blog, May 30, 2014)
“A Chinese-American Merchant’s Blistering Arguments Against Chinese Exclusion” (Slate‘s The Vault blog, May 28, 2014)
“An Alabama Citizen’s 1924 Letter Asking the Government to Investigate the KKK” (Slate‘s The Vault blog, May 16, 2014)
“Tracking a Slave Trader Through His Expense Reports” (Slate‘s The Vault blog, April 7, 2014)
“The 1897 Petition Against Annexation That More Than Half of All Native Hawaiians Signed” (Slate‘s The Vault blog, March 28, 2014)
“Hand-Drawn Early-20th-Century Charts Showing the State of African-American Economic Life” (Slate‘s The Vault blog, March 4, 2014)
“A 1940s Board Game for French Kids Taught Tactics for Successful Colonialism” (Slate‘s The Vault blog, February 28, 2014)
“A Trove of Photographs of African-American Community Life in Jazz-Age New Orleans” (Slate‘s The Vault blog, January 28, 2014)
“In Suggestions for Victorious Bus Boycotters, MLK’s Powerful Turn Toward Nonviolence” (Slate‘s The Vault blog, January 17, 2014)
“A Pretty 1940 Map of American Diversity, Annotated by Langston Hughes” (Slate‘s The Vault blog, January 13, 2014)
“‘How Much Have We Spent on Native Americans?’ In 1894, the Government Put It In Numbers” (Slate‘s The Vault blog, December 20, 2013)
“A WWII-Era Protest Letter, Sent By Japanese-American Internees Resisting the Draft” (Slate‘s The Vault blog, December 5, 2013)
“John Brown’s Passionate ‘Declaration of Liberty,’ Written on a Lengthy Scroll” (Slate‘s The Vault blog, December 2, 2013)
“Learn Cherokee Words for ‘Dog,’ ‘Harp,’ ‘Star,’ and More, Using An 1888 Primer” (Slate‘s The Vault blog, November 25, 2013)
“An Illustrated Descent into a ‘White Slave Hell’ in 1910 Chicago” (Slate‘s The Vault blog, November 8, 2013)
“How the Government Monitored Life on a 1920s Reservation” (Slate‘s The Vault blog, November 4, 2013)
“Beyond ’12 Years a Slave’: The Signatures of Hundreds Who Sued For Freedom” (Slate‘s The Vault blog, October 17, 2013)
“Ship’s Manifest from 1833 Shows 83 People Caught in the Domestic Slave Trade” (Slate‘s The Vault blog, September 30, 2013)
“A Serious Security Handbook for Civil Rights Volunteers” (Slate‘s The Vault blog, September 20, 2013)
“The Map That Lincoln Used to See the Reach of Slavery” (Slate‘s The Vault blog, September 4, 2013)
“How to Host a Protest: Pages from the Organizers’ Handbook for the March on Washington” (Slate‘s The Vault blog, August 27, 2013)
“The Infamous Government Order Mandating Forced Haircuts for Native Americans” (Slate‘s The Vault blog, August 20, 2013)
“An Astonishing Catalog of the Violence Committed Against Freedom Summer Participants in a Single Mississippi Town” (Slate‘s The Vault blog, August 15, 2013)
“The Band of American Women Who Tried to Stop Andrew Jackson’s Native American Removal Policy” (Slate‘s The Vault blog, August 14, 2013)
“Fifty Years Before Boondocks There Was Patty-Jo n Ginger” (Slate‘s The Vault blog, August 13, 2013)
“Lincoln’s Promise: We’ll Take an Eye for an Eye to Protect Our Black Troops” (Slate‘s The Vault blog, August 6, 2013)
“Minutes from a 1920s KKK Meeting on Special KKK Stationery” (Slate‘s The Vault blog, July 24, 2013)
“How the Soviets Used Our Civil Rights Conflicts Against Us” (Slate‘s The Vault blog, July 9, 2013)
“Update: On the Hunt for the Original Louisiana Literacy Test” (Slate‘s The Vault blog, July 3, 2013)
“Take the Impossible ‘Literacy’ Test Louisiana Gave Black Voters in the 1960s” (Slate‘s The Vault blog, June 28, 2013)
“Photos: When Segregation Reached Right Into the National Parks” (Slate‘s The Vault blog, June 19, 2013)
“Medgar Evers Was Killed 50 Years Ago Today. Here Is the Program From His Funeral” (Slate‘s The Vault blog, June 12, 2013)
“Video: When Heston, Poitier, Brando, Baldwin, and Belafonte Sat Down to Talk Civil Rights” (Slate‘s The Vault blog, May 28, 2013)
“‘A Closet Racist and Friend of the Rich’: Reagan’s Response to a Citizen Critic” (Slate‘s The Vault blog, May 9, 2013)
“An 1893 Letter Promising Compensation to Former Owners of Slaves” (Slate‘s The Vault blog, April 24, 2013)
“Jackie Robinson’s 1963 Telegram to JFK: ‘The World Cannot Afford to Lose MLK'” (Slate‘s The Vault blog, April 12, 2013)
“The Not-So-Accidental Racism of Post-Civil-War Songs About the South” (Slate‘s The Vault blog, April 9, 2013)
“Threats From a Ghost: An 1868 Intimidation Letter Sent by the KKK” (Slate‘s The Vault blog, April 8, 2013)
“Langston Hughes’ Collection of Harlem Rent Party Advertisements” (Slate‘s The Vault blog, March 14, 2013)
“Going to Summer Kamp with the KKK” (Slate‘s The Vault blog, March 5, 2013)
“A Kiowa Warrior’s Drawings of Captivity and Assimilation” (Slate‘s The Vault blog, February 27, 2013)
“A Midcentury Travel Guide for African-American Drivers Navigating Jim Crow” (Slate‘s The Vault blog, February 11, 2013)
“A Look Inside the Astonishing Black Panther Murder Trial of 1970-71” (Slate‘s The Vault blog, January 30, 2013)
“One 18th-Century Merchant Takes a Stand Against Slavery” (Slate‘s The Vault blog, January 28, 2013)
“‘F is for Fugitive’: A Fantastic 1864 Children’s Book About the Evil of Slavery” (Slate‘s The Vault blog, January 24, 2013)
“This Pay Chart Shows Exactly How Louisiana Used to Discriminate Against Black Teachers” (Slate‘s The Vault blog, January 16, 2013)
“The Sad History of the Kid-Sized Handcuffs” (Slate‘s The Vault blog, January 11, 2013)
“A Lynching Map of the United States, 1900-1931” (Slate‘s The Vault blog, January 8, 2013)
“A View of the Largest Mass Execution in U.S. History” (Slate‘s The Vault blog, November 29, 2012)

Everywhere Else

“How Do Descendants of Slaves Find Their Ancestors?” (Slate, September 2, 2016)
“When Malcolm X Met Fidel Castro” (Slate, August 30, 2016)
“What Bill O’Reilly Doesn’t Understand About Slavery” (Slate, July 28, 2016)
“Why It Makes No Sense To Judge Groups of People By Their Histories of Invention” (Slate‘s Future Tense blog, July 20, 2016)
“Is the Greatest Collection of Slave Narratives Tainted By Racism?” (Slate, July 6, 2016)
“The Heartfelt Letters That Reveal How The Original Roots Haunted America” (Slate‘s Browbeat blog, June 1, 2016)
“America’s Lost History of Border Violence” (Slate, May 5, 2016)
“Andrew Jackson’s Adopted Indian Son”(Slate, April 29, 2016)
“A Hamilton Skeptic on Why the Show Isn’t As Revolutionary As It Seems” (Slate, April 5, 2016)
“Roller Skating Socials and a Black Rosie the Riveter” (on two websites exploring the archive of the black press) (Slate, March 8, 2016)
“America’s Other Original Sin” (on Native Americans and slavery) (Slate, January 18, 2016)
“Slavery Myths, Debunked” (with Jamelle Bouie) (Slate, September 29, 2015)
“Are We in the Midst of a New Civil Rights Era?” (Slate, August 6, 2015)
“The Surprising Demographics of American Slavery” (Slate, June 11, 2015)
“Red Summer” (on black self-defense in 1919)(Slate, March 4, 2015)
“Forget Madonna and Angelina. Josephine Baker Adopted 12 Children From Around the Globe” (Slate, April 18, 2014)
“The Snake-Eaters and the Yards: The Vietnamese Tribesmen Who Fought Alongside American Special Forces Won the Green Berets’ Admiration–And Lost Everything Else” (Slate, November 27, 2013)
“‘Be White To Your Dogs.’ Why People Are So Outraged About A Canadian Survival Story” (Slate‘s Wild Things blog, November 12, 2013)

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