When the Fourth of July Was a Black Holiday
After the Civil War, African Americans in the South transformed Independence Day into a celebration of their newly won freedom.
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Wesley Hitt / Getty Images When the South Was the Most Progressive Region in America
Groundbreaking elections in the late 1860s gave birth to real, if short-lived, interracial democracy—the likes of which America had never seen.
Library of Congress / Katie Martin / The Atlantic Take Down the Confederate Flags, but Not the Monuments
Instead of of sanitizing the past, communities need to strike a balance between confronting history and respecting the needs of the present.
