Black Political Thought - AAIHS

Writing Atrocity, Rethinking Rebellion, and Documenting State Violence

This week we’re revisiting Heather Ann Thompson’s Blood in the Water: The Attica Prison Uprising of 1971 and Its Legacy (Pantheon Books,

In May 2020, Ida B. Wells-Barnett was posthumously awarded a Pulitzer Prize in Journalism for her investigations of lynchings. She

During the Cold War, progressive voices were being drowned out by the drumbeat of war, as military and political relations

Practically any modern American historian can narrate a brief history of redlining in the United States. As the story goes,

In her sweeping monograph Runaway Genres: The Global Afterlives of Slavery, Yogita Goyal takes up the legacy of the American