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Memory, Memorials, and History

June 25, 2019June 24, 2019 Alisha J. Hines archives, Civil War, Historical Memory, museums, race, slavery, South, white supremacy

“On this Juneteenth I’m on a tour being conducted by Jefferson Davis’s great grandson.” –@heirofElijah, June 19, 2019 The morning started

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Rebuiding Church (A Poem)

June 21, 2019June 11, 2019 Lavinia Jackson art, Black church, Black Ecologies, poetry, religion, Virginia

St. John’s Got to scrappin’, grappling With Deshae out some windows And Mt. Landing Out the others. Her pews

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When John Hope Franklin and Pepsi Made a Black History Record

June 19, 2019June 23, 2019 Joshua Clark Davis Black History Month, black intellectual history, capitalism, Historiography, John Hope Franklin

A decade after his death, John Hope Franklin remains among the most prominent historians to ever chronicle the African American

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Staging Habla de Negros: A New Book on Radical Black Performance in Early Modern Spain

June 18, 2019June 17, 2019 J. T. Roane African Diaspora, Black Europe, language, Performance, Resistance

This post is part of our blog series that announces the publication of selected new books in African American History

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On Education and African American Intellectual History

June 14, 2019June 12, 2019 Derrick P. Alridge #AAIHSRoundtable, #RethinkingAAIH, Activism, black intellectual history, black politics, Black women, education, education reform, Historiography, race

*This post is part of our online forum titled “What is African American Intellectual History?“ As a scholar in African

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