Literature - AAIHS

Remembering Phillis Wheatley

In my last post, I commented on a specific newspaper piece from the May 18, 1827 edition of Freedom’s Journal,

The following is a guest post from Dr. Janaka Bowman Lewis, Assistant Professor of English at the University of North

Last month, I wrote about how slaves and free blacks appropriated Euro-American languages and their ability to use them to

In his 2010 CD Sophomore Slump, the Jackson, Mississippi-based artist Skipp Coon rapped in the opening track “James,” “From where

As a result of events in Ferguson related to the death of Michael Brown, last summer Georgetown University history professor