A dreadful deceit: the myth of race from the colonial era to Obama's America

Antonia: a killing in early colonial Maryland

Boston King: self-interested patriotism in revolutionary-era South Carolina

Elleanor Eldridge: "complexional hindrance" in antebellum Rhode Island

Richard W. White: "racial" politics in post-civil war Savannah

William H. Holtzclaw: the "black man's burden" in the heart of Mississippi

Simon P. Owens: a Detroit wildcatter at the point of production.