1619?
We are living in a “memory boom” he says. From Charleston to New York, the national mall and university halls,
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African American History survey
Black Patriotism and Black Death in the Aftermath of the American Revolution
On June 15, 1776, Lucretia Pritchett petitioned the Virginia Convention seeking reparations for the deceased enslaved man over whom she
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Liberalism, Emancipation, and the Atlantic World
George Hackett’s trajectory simmered with the tensions that defined the Age of Emancipations. Hackett was born at the turn of
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On Education and African American Intellectual History
*This post is part of our online forum titled “What is African American Intellectual History?“ As a scholar in African
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Frederick Douglass’s Narrative of Childhood
*This post is part of the online forum on The Futures of Frederick Douglass. The contributions in this forum each
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