Reconstruction

From Abolitionist to Race Woman: Charlotte Forten’s Black Feminist Legacy

September 7, 2026September 6, 2026 Mickell Carter 0 Comments
#globalblackthought, black women's intellectual history, Civil War, education, South Carolina

In today’s post, Mickell Carter, an editorial assistant at Global Black Thought (the official journal of AAIHS), interviews Jaimie D. Crumley about her

The Harmfulness of Black Codes in the State of Alabama

March 29, 2024March 28, 2024 Daphne Calhoun #BlackCodes, #BooksArchivesMonuments, reconstruction

This post is part of our forum on “The Books, Archives, and Monuments That Shaped Me.” When the Civil War

Northern Journalism in the Promotion of the Lost Cause

March 26, 2024March 27, 2024 Marvin Walker #BooksArchivesMonuments, antiblackness, Black Newspapers, Black Reconstruction, Jim Crow

This post is part of our forum on “The Books, Archives, and Monuments That Shaped Me.” Since the age of

Convict Leasing in the Family

January 17, 2024January 16, 2024 Menika Dirkson carceral state, mass incarceration, racism, South

Around 1920, twenty-four-year-old E. Hooper left her rural hometown of Chester, South Carolina for the big city where she could

The Times-Picayune’s Historical Use of the N-Word

September 8, 2023August 25, 2023 Bala Baptiste Jim Crow, MEDIA, Newspapers, white supremacy

The News Orleans daily newspaper the Times-Picayune, since its founding on January 25, 1837, and throughout 1914, when it merged

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