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Jumping the Broom and the American Cultural Divide

Many people in the 21st century became familiar with jumping the broom through the 1977 miniseries Roots in a wedding scene

The New Directions in Female Bondage roundtable at this year’s Annual Meeting of the American Historical Association (AHA), featured the recent

Kay Wright Lewis’s new book, A Curse Upon the Nation: Race, Freedom, and Extermination in America and the Atlantic World (University

On January 9, 2018, the Charleston City Council deferred voting on a proposed new plaque for the John C. Calhoun

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