The Black Intellectual Traditions That Shaped Frederick Douglass
The United States recently marked 250 years since the adoption of the U.S. Declaration of Independence. For this occasion, a
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American Revolution
Black Virginians and the American Revolution
In the summer of 1782, nearly nine months after Patriot victory at the Battle of Yorktown during the US War
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On War and U.S. Slavery: Enslaved Black Women’s Experiences
The experiences of enslaved women and girls in the wars of the United States has garnered increased scholarly attention, most
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CFP: Black Intellectuals and the Crisis of Democracy
Since the founding of the United States, Black intellectuals have questioned the limits of American democracy. While in the past
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The African American Origins of Modern Asylum
Harriet Tubman, living in Ontario, Canada for most of 1851 to 1861, told an abolitionist interviewing fugitive slaves north of
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