The Gift of Black Folk and the Emancipation of American History
“Our song, our toil, our cheer, and warming have been given to this nation in blood-brotherhood. Are not these gifts
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Reconstruction
Bound in Wedlock: A New Book on Slave and Free Marriage in the 19th Century
This post is part of my blog series that announces the publication of selected new books in African American History
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Measuring Racial Progress, Past and Present
If the November 2008 election of Barack Obama to the presidency provided an occasion to measure the distance the United
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A Dual Emancipation: How Black Freedom Benefited Poor Whites
Recently scholars have come to question “emancipation” as the proper terminology for describing the end of American slavery, preferring instead
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“An Outrage”: A New Film about Lynching in the American South
This post is part of a new blog series that announces the release of new films in African American History
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