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Police Power Affects All of Us
May 1, 2025
Recovering the Forgotten Past of Black Legal Lives
April 3, 2025
What’s the history of ‘outside agitators’? Here’s what to know about the label and campus protests
May 11, 2024
The Rights of American Slaves
August 27, 2024
A ‘Wary Faith’ in the Courts
April 4, 2024
In ‘Before the Movement,' Dylan C. Penningroth Finds Lost Legacies
Winter 2023
‘Before the Movement’ Review: Civil Rights at the Courthouse
October 28, 2023
The Hidden Story of Black History and Black Lives Before the Civil Rights Movement
October 4, 2023
How Civil Rights Were Made—and Remade—By Black Communities In the Jim Crow South
September 26, 2023
What the conventional narrative gets wrong about the civil rights movement
The Legal Lives of Slaves in America
September 15, 2023
Dylan Penningroth was chosen to join the Historians Council on the Constitution along with 17 other expert historians from leading institutions nationwide.
Professor Dylan Penningroth’s New Book Centers the Law in Black Lives, from the 1830s to the 1970s
Vibrant Black Legal Life in “Before the Movement: The Hidden History of Black Civil Rights”
September 21, 2023
Review of Before the Movement: A Hidden History of Black Civil Rights
August 20, 2023
July 13, 2023
