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Topic: reconstruction

A detachment of German soldiers on their way to install parking signs in preparation for the 8th Congress of the Nazi Party at Nuremberg, 3rd September 1936. (FPG/Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Aggrieved white men: Threat to democracy

Gavel coming down on the US Supreme Court (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

Here's how to fix the Supreme Court

African-American men voting in a state election in the south during reconstruction in an 1867 illustration from Harper's Weekly. That year in the reconstruction states 703,000 Blacks and 627,000 Whites voted. (Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

What to know about Reconstruction

Tiffany Mitchell Patterson - The Conversation

Mississippi state flag in front of the state Capitol in Jackson, Mississippi. (AP/Rogelio V. Solis)

MS not electing African-Americans

John A. Tures, Seth Golden - The Conversation

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Former Attorney General Eric Holder; Voters cast their ballots at a polling place in Ridgeland, Mississippi, Nov. 27, 2018 (Getty/Salon)

Jim Crow election laws haunt Mississippi

Mike Hubbard (AP/Todd J. Van Emst/Opelika-Auburn News)

Dark money: It's how Alabama happened

Henry Louis Gates, Jr.; Early African American homesteading family, standing outside home in Nicodemus Historic District, Kansas. (Courtesy of McGee Media/Courtesy of Library of Congress/Salon)

"Terror became part of the mythology"

Melanie McFarland

Donald Trump; Frederick Douglass (AP/Wikimedia/Salon)

Frederick Douglass and the resistance

Chauncey DeVega

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(AP Photo/John Minchillo)

It's time for a New Reconstruction

K. Sabeel Rahman

Ann Coulter; Donald Trump; Michael Anton (AP/Getty/Photo montage by Salon)

Battle for the Constitution

Jeff Sessions; Donald Trump; Steve Bannon (AP/Getty/Reuters/Mandel Ngan/Eric Thayer/Gerald Herbert/John Bazemore/Salon)

Trump and the new "Redemption"

Chauncey DeVega

Barack Obama participates in a march across the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Alabama, March 7, 2015. (Reuters/Jonathan Ernst)

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America's Civil War deceit

Eric Foner - Jacobin

(AP/Rainier Ehrhardt)

The face of racism

(<a href='http://www.shutterstock.com/gallery-74538p1.html'>Alexander Raths</a> via <a href='http://www.shutterstock.com/'>Shutterstock</a>)

Lab-grown penises are coming

John W. Milam and Roy Bryant, who were charged with the murder of 14-year-old African American Emmett L.Till, and acquitted by an all-white jury. (AP)

A legacy predating Ferguson

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Ron Paul (Reuters/Scott Audette)

Libertarians: Still a cult

Natasha Lennard

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