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March 2024

Then and Now: The American Cycle and Prosecuting White Terrorism
The United States’ propensity for reducing punishments for acts of white terrorism has revealed our alarming cycle of regression within the American…
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Nicole Solich
Abolitionism as a Question of Citizenship During Reconstruction and Today
(This piece was originally published in the Law and Political Economy (LPE) Project on February 29, 2024.) (This piece was also mentioned on March 16…
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Etienne C. Toussaint
The Supreme Court and the Origin of Corrupted Morals
To the chagrin of the American public, originalism – which seeks to adhere to the purported “original intent” of the Constitution’s drafters – has…
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Barrett Holmes Pitner
How the American Cycle Explains Katie Britt, Tradwives & the GOP
Last week, my social media became bombarded with discussions about the “Tradwife” phenomenon, and then these discussions went up another level after…
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Barrett Holmes Pitner
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February 2024

Then and Now: The Elections that Halted Reconstruction
The election of 1876 marked the end of Reconstruction and ushered in an era of racial oppression and disenfranchisement of Black Americans known as the…
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Sofia Alva
America's First January 6th Happened in 1874
Despite the fact that the “unprecedented” attack of January 6th occurred more than three years ago, the United States has still struggled to recall an…
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Barrett Holmes Pitner
The Forgotten Prosecutions of the KKK & The Former Confederate Who Put Them Away
Amos T. Akerman, the Attorney General who initiated the prosecution of the KKK during the start of the DOJ, dismantled the terrorist organization by…
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Nicole Solich
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Welcome to the Reconstructionist!
The Reconstructionist is my latest venture, and it is an extension of my previous newsletter The Word, whose content is still accessible on this…
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Barrett Holmes Pitner
Reconstructionism: Rediscovering the Philosophy of Reconstruction
In 1891, more than 25 years after the conclusion of the Civil War, Missouri Senator George Graham Vest, a former congressman for the Confederacy and…
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Noah Woods
The Fifteenth Amendment Personified
As Mississippi's first Black Senator, Hiram Revels represented the new freedoms of Reconstruction.
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Jamie Redmond
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