Meaning of freedom - AAIHS

Bringing Archives of Death and Life into the Classroom

This fall I am teaching African American History Since 1863, starting with the event of Emancipation as a legal-juridical happening

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

In the summer of 1777, as musket balls flew about New York’s battlefields, José de Gálvez felt confident. The American

*The following post is an abridged version of Fredrick Douglass‘ famed speech, “What to the Slave is the Fourth of

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