Intimate Historical Practice
*This post is part of our joint online roundtable with the Journal of African American History. Saidiya Hartman has stacked
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Black history
“An Oasis in Turbulent Times”: Black Towns, Black Futures
Mound Bayou, Mississippi, founded by Isaiah T. Montgomery—formerly enslaved by Joseph Davis—and his relative Benjamin Green, tells a story of
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Landscape as Witness: Harriet Tubman Underground Railroad State Park
In early March 2020, I drove past miles of dredged canals and gangly loblolly pines toward the visitor center of
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Confronting Reactionaries: Black Support for The Progressive Party During the Cold War
During the Cold War, progressive voices were being drowned out by the drumbeat of war, as military and political relations
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Undaunted Resistance: Joseph Lowery and the Spirit of SCLC
Against all odds, a movement for racial justice took hold in mid-20th-century America, emerging from within the racially-heated South, and
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