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Colored No More: A New Book on Black Womanhood in Washington, D.C.

This post is part of my blog series that announces the publication of selected new books in African American History

Recently scholars have come to question “emancipation” as the proper terminology for describing the end of American slavery, preferring instead

At the recent OAH conference in New Orleans, Louisiana, I participated in a roundtable on “Transnational Circulations of Feminism in

During the 1940s and 1950s, a Mississippi Circuit Clerk named Luther Cox gained notoriety for asking potential black voter registration

An evaluation of the first 100 days of the new President of the United States has become a tradition of