Writing a New History of Black Religion: An Author’s Response
This post is part of our online roundtable on Judith Weisenfeld’s New World A-Coming One afternoon while sitting in the Schomburg Center reading
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Gender
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
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Margaret Garner and the Complexities of Slavery and Gender
“Why?” So begins Nikki Taylor’s smart and probing microhistory of enslaved woman Margaret Garner’s murder of her child. But Taylor’s
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Zora Neale Hurston, Diaspora, and the Memory of Hurricanes
September has become the month to remember disasters. Apart from September 11, there is the memory of the aftermath of
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Remembering Black Women in St. Louis’s Pruitt-Igoe Housing Projects
An eerie calm has settled over the 57-acre lot where the Pruitt-Igoe Homes once loomed over St. Louis, Missouri. Today,
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