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The Consequences of USCT Soldiering

May 26, 2022May 25, 2022 Holly A. Pinheiro, Jr. Civil War, Pension System, reparations, United States Colored Infantry, United States Colored Troop, USCI, USCT

Solomon Wilson, a Thirty-First United States Colored Infantry (USCI) soldier, died in a regimental hospital on August 6, 1864. An

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The Black “New South” in Intellectual History

April 20, 2022April 21, 2022 Robert Greene II Black New South, Historiography, Intellectual History, New South, South

Atlanta protestors and National Guard at Black Lives Matter protest, Atlanta, June 1, 2020 The idea of the New South

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Texas’ Long Celebration of Juneteenth

October 18, 2021October 17, 2021 Nakia D. Parker Resistance, slavery, South

On June 18, 2021, President Joseph Biden signed legislation that made “Juneteenth,” the commemoration of the event on June

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Lawrence Reddick and the Communal Acts of Black History

October 7, 2021October 6, 2021 Stephen G. Hall academia, black intellectual history, Black Power, Black Reconstruction, Higher education

African American history has always been a communal act. From its inception in the nineteenth century, Black men and women,

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The Black Roots of “Rights and Privileges”

August 6, 2021August 6, 2021 Kerri Greenidge #AAIHSRoundtable, #contestedcitizenship, Anti-Lynching, black politics, human rights, race

“This post is part of our roundtable on “Contested Citizenship,” organized in collaboration with the Gilder Lehrman Center for the

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