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Sex, Swimming, and Chicago’s Racial Divide

Sunday, July 27, 1919, was a hot, sweltering, sunny day at Chicago’s Twenty-Ninth Street Beach. When fourteen-year-old Eugene Williams, who

In the last month, Hurricanes Harvey and Irma devastated Texas and Florida, killing scores of people and leaving many more

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

I recently returned from a storytelling school in a small coastal town on the North Channel of Northern Ireland. I

This is an excerpt from the preface of Andrew T. Fede’s Homicide Justified: The Legality of Killing Slaves in the