Writings
Trump’s White Nationalist Vision for the Future of History, The New Republic, September, 2025
US Involvement in Vietnam and the Veterans’ Experience, in Vietnam Veterans: Legacies of Service, 1965-2012, Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History, Teaching Literacy Through History, 2025
What the Civil Rights Act Really Meant, The Atlantic, July 5, 2024
Facing Our Collective Wounds With Generous Hope, Zócalo Public Square, December 21, 2023
Commentary: UNC Chapel Hill Trustees Misfire with Rushed and Ill-Conceived Plan to Launch Conservative School, North Carolina Policy Watch, February 13, 2023
The Quiet Courage of Bob Moses, The Atlantic, July 28, 2021
The Future of Black History, The Atlantic, May 4, 2021
Warnock’s Win Was 150 Years in the Making — But History Tells Us it is Fragile, Washington Post, January 18, 2021
The Laws in Context, On the Books: Jim Crow and Algorithms of Resistance, UNC Libraries, January 2021
A Brief History of the Mississippi State Sovereignty Commission, Mississippi Department of Archives and History, January 2021
The Latest Chapter in Mississippi’s Long History of Squelching Anti-Racist Activism, Washington Post, December 22, 2020
Teach My Book: William Sturkey, Hattiesburg: An American City in Black and White, Teach My Book, Teaching United States History, October 5, 2020
‘On the Books’: Machine Learning Jim Crow, Black Perspectives, African American Intellectual History Society, September 11, 2020
Confederate Monument in Mississippi City Pays Tribute to Past that Never Was, Hattiesburg American, July 2, 2020
Why Did U.N.C. Give Millions to a Neo-Confederate Group?, The New York Times, December 3, 2019
The Future Belongs To Us, Southern Cultures, vol. 25, no. 2 (Summer 2019)
Medgar Evers’s Legacy of Organizing in Mississippi, Black Perspectives, African American Intellectual History Society, April 15, 2019
The Geer Cemetery: A Lesson in Black History, Durham Herald-Sun & Raleigh News & Observer, February 3, 2019
Why White Southern Conservatives Need to Defend Confederate Monuments, Black Perspectives, African American Intellectual History Society, March 3, 2018
The Hidden History of the Civil Rights Act of 1960, Black Perspectives, African American Intellectual History Society, February 8, 2018
Carr Was Indeed Much More than Silent Sam, Durham Herald Sun, October 31, 2017
Race, Racism, and Southern Myths, Black Perspectives, African American Intellectual History Society, October 4, 2017
Local Authority in the Future of Voting Rights, Black Perspectives, African American Intellectual History Society, April 10, 2017
The 1964 Mississippi Freedom Schools, Mississippi History Now: An Online Publication of the Mississippi Historical Society, June, 2016