Lawrence Goldstone

A thrilling and incisive examination of the post-Reconstruction era struggle for and suppression of African-American voting rights in the United States....

Just after 4 pm on September 6, 1901, 28-year-old anarchist Leon Czolgosz pumped two shots into the chest and abdomen of President William McKinley. Czolgosz had been on a receiving line waiting to shake the president’s hand, his revolver concealed in an oversized bandage....

One promise of democracy is the right of every citizen to vote. And yet, from our founding, political forces were determined to limit that right. As On Account of Race demonstrates, through the better part of American history the court has instead been a protector of white rule....

In Brooklyn in 1899, Dr. Noah Whitestone is called urgently to his wealthy neighbor's house to treat a five-year-old boy with a shocking set of symptoms....

On September 17, 1787, at the State House in Philadelphia, 39 men from 12 states, after months of often bitter debate, signed America's Constitution. Yet very few of the delegates, at the start, had had any intention of creating a nation that would last....

In another unrelenting look at the iniquities of the American justice system, Lawrence Goldstone examines the history of racism against Japanese Americans, exploring the territory of citizenship and touching on fears of non-white immigration to the US—with hauntingly contemporary echoes.