Call for Submissions: The Significance of the Black Family in the US
“For generations the [Black] family has remained an important cauldron of resistance, forging and preserving a vital legacy of collective
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Black Family
Reproductive Rights, Slavery, and ‘Dobbs v. Jackson’
This post is part of our forum on “Black Women and Reproductive Rights.” In 1662, the Virginia legislature cast a
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The Familial Fight Against Racism
The Civil War remains one of the most discussed and published historical topics. Often, public and academic discourse on
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Enslaved Revolutionary Women: An Author Interview with Karen Cook-Bell
On March 5, 1770, a twenty-three-year-old woman, her eight-month-old daughter, and her husband escaped from bondage in Leacock Township in
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Black Women and Civil War Pensions
By the late-nineteenth-century, Civil War pensions not only comprised a quarter of the federal budget, but they also provided a
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