Race, Medicine, and the Origins of American Psychiatry
In the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, American physicians developed and promoted biological notions of racial difference that have
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Antebellum
The Role of Violence in the Abolitionist Movement
On September 11 1851, George Ford, Nelson Ford, Noah Buley, and Joshua Hammond arrived at William and Eliza Parker’s home
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In Pursuit of Knowledge: A New Book about Black Women’s Educational Activism
This post is part of our blog series that announces the publication of selected new books in African American History
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Blackness, Freedom, and the Law in Cuba, Virginia, and Louisiana
Becoming Free, Becoming Black: Race, Freedom, and Law in Cuba, Virginia, and Louisiana radically reorients our perspective on Blackness and slavery
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The Spiritual Life of Jane Manning James, A Nineteenth Century Black Mormon
Quincy Newell’s Your Sister in the Gospel: The Life of Jane Manning James, A Nineteenth-Century Black Mormon explores the fascinating life
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