History Archives – Scalawag

Requiem for the longleaf pine

by Xander Peters October 6, 2021October 6, 2021

'The story of longleaf is also the story of the Southern yellow pine. We've just done a really good job of telling the longleaf story.'

Southern Politics

Prostitution was already illegal in Louisiana. Then Republicans crafted an even more damning law used to target trans sex workers.

by Matt Nadel June 1, 2021July 21, 2021

A Prophet Without Eyes: Pauli Murray's Moment

by Brenna M. Casey April 30, 2021October 6, 2021

Freedom wasn't given—it was seized

by Samantha Willis April 6, 2021April 7, 2021

The old devil and the new details

by Mab Segrest March 29, 2021April 29, 2021

'Pure America': Eugenics past and present

by Adam Willems March 2, 2021March 3, 2021

Review: One Night in Miami

by Khayla Deans February 23, 2021March 3, 2021

How Black kids reclaimed the whitewashed world of 1920's children's literature

by Paige Gray February 8, 2021February 8, 2021

The Color of Freedom: Reimagining portraits of the formerly enslaved

by Lee Hedgepeth February 5, 2021February 5, 2021

Scalawag Updates

Essential Reading: Black History and Black Futures

by Scalawag Editors February 1, 2021February 1, 2021

Pauli Murray: Black revolutionary

by Dolores Chandler January 29, 2021January 29, 2021

A white supremacist coup succeeded in 1898 North Carolina, led by lying politicians and racist newspapers that amplified their lies

by Kathy Roberts Forde & Kristin Gustafson January 18, 2021September 14, 2021

A forgotten coup in the American heartland echoes Trump

by Russell Cobb, The Conversation January 12, 2021January 12, 2021

Before Charlie Parker, there was Lester Young

by Brian Major December 9, 2020December 9, 2020

The Mutual Musicians Foundation is fighting the gentrification of Jazz in Kansas City

by Zeb Larson December 8, 2020December 9, 2020

There Goes the Neighborhood: What really caused the decline of 18th & Vine

by Zeb Larson December 8, 2020December 9, 2020

The first Black drag queen in North Alabama and other untold stories of the Queer South

by Sarah Prager November 17, 2020February 10, 2021

'I wanted to wear a purple ball gown with a crimson silk cape'

by Cynthia R. Greenlee November 3, 2020November 3, 2020

Forgotten protest icon Odetta Holmes lives on in modern Black Americana

by Chelsea Spear October 23, 2020February 10, 2021

Liberation is a Long Haul: Lessons from Juneteenth

by Jakeya Caruthers June 22, 2020February 10, 2021

Southern Politics

Memorial Day and weaponizing the American flag

by Jedediah Purdy May 25, 2020December 3, 2020

The 'Slave Trail of Tears': recreation or reckoning?

by Sammy Feldblum May 11, 2020October 1, 2020

Southern Politics

How the right to vote became a weapon of exclusion

by Andrew Dilts May 4, 2020September 16, 2020

Rebellion on the Coast: Louisiana artists reenact Black armed resistance

by Frances Madeson April 14, 2020September 16, 2020

Paying homage to the Black Women icons of Ebony and Jet Magazine

by Ming Joi March 27, 2020September 16, 2020

Black educators' harrowing tales of Reconstruction come to life in 'The Uninvited'

by Frances Madeson March 13, 2020September 16, 2020

Slave rebellion replaces Confederate reenactments. Watch now.

by Tricia Towey January 29, 2020October 1, 2020

1619-2019

by Danielle Purifoy January 22, 2020October 1, 2020

During Civil Rights Era, Native American Communities in the South Armed Themselves Against the Klan

by Malinda Maynor Lowery January 20, 2020July 20, 2021

Finding the thread: The tradition of African-American quilting

by Ellison Langford December 16, 2019September 16, 2020