In our next summer reading installment, Annette Gordon-Reed examines the history of white supremacy in the United States from the eighteenth century to the present. Racially based slavery warped the country’s prospects from the beginning, Gordon-Reed writes, and its abolition did not erase the corrosive ideas that upheld the system for generations and that continue to destroy American lives today.

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