Law and legal history - AAIHS

“Rikers: An American Jail”: A New Film on Mass Incarceration

This post is part of my blog series that announces the release of new films in African American History and African Diaspora Studies.

In today’s post, Alyssa Collins, PhD candidate in the Department of English at the University of Virginia, interviews Rosalind Rosenberg

American democracy and liberty might appear to be the opposite of the fascism and horrors of Nazi Germany. But for

“Why?” So begins Nikki Taylor’s smart and probing microhistory of enslaved woman Margaret Garner’s murder of her child. But Taylor’s

This is an excerpt from the preface of Andrew T. Fede’s Homicide Justified: The Legality of Killing Slaves in the