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Healing White History

Steven Baughman Jensen

Courageous conversations with our ancestors—reckoning with whiteness, truth, and repair.

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The Brotherhood That Isn't

Sheet music cover to a popular song, 1923

Today we remember, reflect, and reckon – nine years after Unite the Right.

August 11, 2017 – Charlottesville, Virginia

In the sunlight, the young white men gather. They carry and wear powerful sy...

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The Confederate Flag in the Hallway

Editor’s Note: Of the six conversations with my ancestors in my draft book manuscript, this one is my favorite. This post from the archives comes in longer than most, but it’s still just an excerpt — I have to give you some reason to still...

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They Burned the Alamo Express

Editor’s Note: This was originally published on December 16, 2025. As always with the archival posts, I hope that new readers enjoy it for the first time, and that you loyal old-timers will get something new out of it this time around.

Co...

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A War of Extermination

The Klamath River

Some of the same work that we white folks do to repair racial harm will also help heal ourselves and our Earth.

Ancestral Connections

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Going Dutch

Lenape homeland. Today, it’s Manhattan.

Editor’s Note: This is one from the Substack archives — an excerpt from one of my favorite ancestor conversations in the book manuscript.

Content Note: References to mass dispossession and death of...

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    Courageous conversations with my ancestors -- reckoning with whiteness, truth, and repair. Author of the in-progress book Healing White History. This Substack is the behind-the-scenes journey -- reader-powered, research-driven.

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