“One Continuous Graveyard”: Emancipation and the Birth of the Professional Police Force
This is a guest post by Keri Leigh Merritt, a historian of the 19th c. American South. She received her
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Labor
Making Jokes and History in An Octoroon
Last weekend I saw a performance of Branden Jacobs-Jenkins‘ play An Octoroon, which is a reimagining of Dion Boucicault’s The
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The Mysterious Thelma X and the Struggle of Black Domestic Workers
Several years ago, I was looking through the papers of sociologist C. Eric Lincoln at the Robert W. Woodruff Library
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