July, 2016 - AAIHS

What to the Black Academic is the 4th of July?

July 4 is not normally a day that we associate with black history. The “we” here refers both to the

“Don’t you see no connection between atom-bomb-dropping in Japan and shin-kicking in Virginia?” asked Simple. “No direct connection,” I said.

Sandra Bland died one year ago today, July 13, 2015. As we remember Bland’s death, we also commemorate her life.

This has been an especially difficult few weeks for those with any investment in social justice, black families and black

This is a guest post by Keri Leigh Merritt, a historian of the 19th c. American South. She received her