Contagions of Empire: A New Book on Racism, Sexuality, and Black Military Workers
This post is part of our blog series that announces the publication of selected new books in African American History
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Featured Books
Civil Rights Activism in the “Jim Crow North”
Where did Jim Crow segregation and civil rights activism take place? A great deal hinges on how this question gets
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The Black Freedom Struggle of the North
Historians have produced a remarkable body of literature reappraising the civil rights movement in the last two decades. And still,
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How Racist Ideas Shaped the Era of Reconstruction
Growing up, I’ve heard many definitions of the term racism, however just last year I read the best definition to
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African American Women and the Building of Educational Institutions
In 1865, just months after the Civil War had ended, the Colored People’s Educational Monument Association (CPEMA) worked to establish
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