Funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, the U.S. Law and Race Initiative brings together large university teaching programs, immersive new forms of digital media content, and community partnership storytelling in order to begin to connect Americans to their history in ways that repair the fractures in our national understanding of race and racialization.
With our open educational resource, Equality Before the Law, we bring unpublished, unexamined, and largely untaught cases into circulation with well-known cases and legislation, foregrounding the legal actions of ordinary Americans for researchers, teachers, scholars, and students.
Our flagship course, And Justice for All: Race and Gender in U.S. Legal History, offers an introduction to U.S. legal history that centers perspectives that are often marginalized or forgotten in the historical record, using the OER as a classroom resource.
