Memory - AAIHS - Page 44

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

It was the summer of 1986 in Chicago, and my eleven-year-old self was engaged in an intense debate with my

September has become the month to remember disasters. Apart from September 11, there is the memory of the aftermath of

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

In a recent interview with Ezra Klein, Bryan Stevenson, executive director of the Equal Justice Commission, stated, “What we do in the memorial