Walter Johnson
Walter Johnson is Winthrop Professor of History and Professor of African and African American Studies at Harvard. His latest book is The Broken Heart of America: St. Louis and the Violent History of the United States. His Boston Review essay “Guns in the Family” was included in the 2019 Best American Essays, edited by Rebecca Solnit.
The Revolution at the Gate
The McCloskeys are also only a symptom of how racism is served by private property.
American Bottom
Designed as a working-class suburb of St. Louis, the nearly all-black town of Centreville now floods with raw sewage every time it rains.
The Revolutionary and the Historian
A historian and rapper reflect on their shared activism and the place they see for allies in the long struggle for racial justice.
Guns in the Family
A childhood steeped in guns shows that toxic masculinity and racism are at the heart of U.S. gun culture.
