Oral History - AAIHS

The Relevance of 1619 in Black Family Oral History

November 15, 2022November 12, 2022 Colita Nichols Fairfax #AAIHSRoundtable, #BlackFamily, slavery

This post is part of our forum on “The Significance of the Black Family in the US.” The 400th Commemoration

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We Are Not Slaves — An Author’s Response

January 15, 2021January 15, 2021 Robert T. Chase #AAIHSRoundtable, #WeAreNotSlaves, carceral state, Gender, Jim Crow, oral history, prisons, race, racism, sexual violence, sexuality, slavery, violence, white supremacy

*This post is part of our online roundtable on Robert T. Chase’s We Are Not Slaves. On Friday, January 15, at 12noon

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Science, Feminism, and Black Liberation: An Interview with Sam Anderson

January 5, 2021January 3, 2021 Emily Hamilton #SamAnderson, Activism, education, Sciences, teaching

Emily Hamilton interviewed Sam Anderson in early December, 2019. Sam Anderson is a Brooklyn, New York, native and a founding

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Appalachian Hillsides as Black Ecologies: Housing, Memory, and The Sanctified Hill Disaster of 1972

June 16, 2020June 14, 2020 Jillean McCommons #BlackEcologies, Activism, Black Ecologies, environment, geography, Historical Memory, oral history, primary source, race, racism

*This post is part of our new series on Black Ecologies edited by Justin Hosbey, Leah Kaplan, & J.T. Roane.

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Voices of Freedom Outside the South: An Oral History Resource

July 23, 2019July 15, 2019 Say Burgin archives, Black Panther Party, black politics, Black Power, Civil Rights Movement, education, oral history, race, teaching

Some of my most exciting moments as an educator have been seeing how students engage with oral histories from the

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