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Edward Ball

Edward Ball is the author of Slaves in the Family and The Inventor and the Tycoon: The Murderer Eadweard Muybridge, the Entrepreneur Leland Stanford, and the Birth of Moving Pictures, among other books. He is a fellow at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard. (March 2017)

The Trial of Dylann Roof

April 6, 2017 issue

Dylann Roof wearing a jacket decorated with the flags of apartheid-era South Africa and white-ruled Rhodesia

The Mind of Dylann Roof

March 23, 2017 issue

Dylann Roof (second from left) during the initial stage of jury selection for his trial for the murder of nine worshipers at the Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church, Charleston, South Carolina, September 2016

United States v. Dylann Roof

The crying is general in the courtroom: the victims’ families, many of the journalists, some of the jury.

March 9, 2017 issue

Letter

The Trial of Dylann Roof

April 6, 2017 issue

The Smithsonian’s National Museum of African American History and Culture, which opened on the National Mall in Washington, D.C., in September 2016

At Last, a Black History Museum

The Smithsonian’s new museum is a shift in collective memory and national self-knowing

November 24, 2016 issue

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