historiography - AAIHS

Historians and the Black Freedom Struggle in the North

April 1, 2019August 12, 2022 Jeanne Theoharis #NationWithinANation, Activism, black politics, Black Power, race, Resistance

*This post is part of our online roundtable celebrating the 20-year anniversary of the publication of Komozi Woodard’s A Nation Within a Nation

An Intellectual History of Liberation Theology

March 6, 2019August 12, 2022 Don S. Polite, Jr. Activism, Jim Crow, Politics, race, religion

The Women’s March, led by women of color activists such as Linda Sarsour and Tamika Mallory, brought millions out to

The Political Origins of Black History Month

February 18, 2019March 31, 2019 Jarvis R. Givens black intellectual history, race, teaching

Has Black History Month run its course? Every year conversations take place weighing the significance of Black History Month. Assertions

The Black Press and the Legacy of Liberator Magazine

February 14, 2019March 31, 2019 Lowell Beveridge #RadicalIntellect, Activism, archives, race, Radical Intellect, Resistance

This post is part of our online roundtable on Chris Tinson’s Radical Intellect As the Editor of Liberator for the first four and a half

Black Thought and Sexual Politics: An Interview with Guy Emerson Mount

January 17, 2019January 29, 2019 Chris Shell black intellectual history, Frederick Douglass, Interracial relationships

In today’s post, Christopher Shell, a PhD student at Michigan State University, interviews historian Guy Emerson Mount about his chapter in New Perspectives on Black