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Aaron Alpeoria Bradley and Black Power during Reconstruction

American historians have long traced the genesis of the Black Power movement to 1966. I would argue, however, that one

“Our song, our toil, our cheer, and warming have been given to this nation in blood-brotherhood. Are not these gifts

This post is part of my blog series that announces the publication of selected new books in African American History

If the November 2008 election of Barack Obama to the presidency provided an occasion to measure the distance the United

Recently scholars have come to question “emancipation” as the proper terminology for describing the end of American slavery, preferring instead