Braveheart for Black People: A Review of Birth of a Nation
I was invited to see Nate Parker’s dramatic retelling of Nat Turner’s 1831 rebellion right before it opened to the
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Memory
Making the American Syllabus: Hashtag Syllabi in Historical Perspective
Hashtag syllabi such as #FergusonSyllabus and #CharlestonSyllabus assemble critical intellectual resources and promote collective study both within and outside of
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Haunting Harmonies: Filmic Sounds in 12 Years a Slave and The Birth of a Nation
The recent release of The Birth of a Nation (Fox Searchlight, 2016) has resulted in a surprising blaze of dissonant
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Racial Division and Trauma in the Comics
This guest post is part of our new blog series on Comics, Race, and Society, edited by Julian Chambliss and
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New African American History Museum Carries on a Radical Museum Tradition
This article originally appeared on Process, the blog of the Organization of American Historians. It has been reproduced here with
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