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The International Slave Trade, Colonialism, and Epidemiology

In Maladies of Empire: How Colonialism, Slavery, and War Transformed Medicine, Jim Downs tells a new origin story for epidemiology.

Since the founding of the United States, Black intellectuals have questioned the limits of American democracy. While in the past

McGill University’s institutional history dramatically changes when it accounts for the fact that its founder, James McGill, was an enslaver

In April 1925, white feminist leaders invited tobacco stemmer Inocencia Valdés to speak before delegates of the Second National Women’s

This post is part of our online roundtable on “Black Buffalo.” On the afternoon of May 14, 2022, I was sitting