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Biographies of Women and Emancipation in the Americas

Last fall, many people waited anxiously for the results of the U. S. elections. From Tuesday, November 3rd through Saturday,

In a 1935 copper miners’ strike in the British colony of Northern Rhodesia (now Zambia), historian C. L. R. James

“Where are you from?”—The deceptively simple question looms over the sprawling narrative of Imperial Intimacies: A Tale of Two Islands,

The most familiar story about nineteenth-century African Americans and the Haitian Revolution is a romanticized account of how the revolution

*This post is part of our online roundtable on Brandon R. Byrd’s The Black Republic. From the outside looking in, there