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Why the United States Needs More Museums about Slavery and Abolition, Not Another About the Civil War

July 11, 2019July 1, 2019 Marlene L. Daut African Diaspora, archives, Civil War, education, Frederick Douglass, museums, Post-Civil War, Public History, race, slavery

When I first stepped into the foyer of the brand new American Civil War Museum at Historic Tredegar in Richmond, Virginia, I

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Lift Every Voice and Sing: On The Power of the Black National Anthem

July 4, 2019July 3, 2019 Erica Ball education, James Weldon Johnson, music, NAACP, segregation

“Lift Every Voice and Sing” is a song that most Black Americans of my generation know so deeply that it

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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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Towards an Antifascist Pedagogy

June 18, 2019June 18, 2019 Guy Emerson Mount antifascism, pedagogy, racism, Resistance, South

On February 19th, 2019 an interracial group of socialists gathered at a local coffee shop in rural Alabama. The coffee

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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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