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Black Women, Agency, and the Civil War

Throughout much of the twentieth century historians framed the Civil War as a political and military driven historical process, which

“Why?” So begins Nikki Taylor’s smart and probing microhistory of enslaved woman Margaret Garner’s murder of her child. But Taylor’s

September has become the month to remember disasters. Apart from September 11, there is the memory of the aftermath of

An eerie calm has settled over the 57-acre lot where the Pruitt-Igoe Homes once loomed over St. Louis, Missouri. Today,

It has been almost twenty-one years since Black German activist, educator, writer, and public intellectual May Ayim died on August