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Pushing the Dual Emancipation Thesis Beyond its Troublesome Origins

*This post is part of our roundtable on Keri Leigh Merritt’s Masterless Men. Toward the end of her valuable reinterpretation of southern slave

In today’s post, Rebecca Brenner, a PhD candidate in the Department of History at American University, interviews Manisha Sinha on

Modern debates over Confederate monuments are not merely concerned with culture, historical memory, or racism. For many monument defenders, there

Last year was incredibly difficult. There was something that seemed more painful than usual about the deluge of the twenty-four-hour

When I found out about Lerone Bennett, Jr’s passing, I was immediately struck by his sense of poetic timing. In life, Bennett