Philip Dray

Dray is the author of A Lynching at Port Jervis: Race and Reckoning in the Gilded Age

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A Lynching in New York 130 Years Ago Shows That the North Isn’t Immune to Racial Hatred

On June 2nd a gathering in Port Jervis, New York will witness the unveiling of a plaque memorializing the lynching 130 years ago, on June 2, 1892, of Robert Lewis, a local Black citizen. Though...

By Philip Dray

How This Photo of Theodore Roosevelt in Hunting Gear Helped Jump-Start the American Conservation Movement

That he looks ready to kill something is no affectation; Roosevelt was a gung-ho hunter all his life

By Philip Dray
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