Robert Greene II

Henry Aaron and American Memory

February 8, 2021February 7, 2021 Robert Greene II 0 Comments
Activism, Baseball, Henry Aaron, Jackie Robinson

The recent death of Henry Aaron sparked remembrances of both his legendary playing career and his longer fight for civil

African American Print Culture: An Interview with Laura Helton

February 4, 2021January 30, 2021 Robert Greene II 2 Comments
archives, black intellectual history, Black women, Gender, library

This is an interview with Robert Greene II, the lead associate editor of Black Perspectives, and Laura Helton, whose article

The Rich Legacy of African American Political and Intellectual History

March 19, 2019March 31, 2019 Robert Greene II black intellectual history, black internationalism, black lives matter, Black political thought, Black women, book review

In 1962, the magazine Negro Digest published a blistering critique of African American intellectuals by the sociologist E. Franklin Frazier. Titled, “The

The Enduring Crisis of Black Intellectuals In America

October 27, 2017October 30, 2017 Robert Greene II black intellectual history, Harold Cruse

*This is the concluding essay of the Society for U.S. Intellectual History’s recent roundtable on Harold Cruse’s The Crisis of the Negro

Davarian Baldwins keynote address et AAIHS 2017. Photo: Brandon Byrd/Twitter.

A Conference Goes Onward and Upward: Reflections on #AAIHS2017

April 6, 2017April 8, 2017 Robert Greene II #AAIHS2017, black intellectual history, conference

I consider myself fortunate to have attended the first two conferences held by the African American Intellectual History Society (AAIHS).