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Online Roundtable–Holly A. Pinheiro Jr.’s ‘The Families’ Civil War’

January 6, 2023January 5, 2023 AAIHS Editors #FamiliesCivilWar, #Roundtable, Black Family, Civil War

Black Perspectives, the award-winning blog of the African American Intellectual History Society (AAIHS), is hosting a roundtable on Holly A. Pinheiro Jr.’s The Families’

The Civil War and Natchez U.S. Colored Troops

December 13, 2022December 28, 2022 Deborah Fountain race, slavery

By the end of the Civil War, nearly 200,000 Black men served as US soldiers and sailors. Of that number, more than 17,000

“The times requires this testimony”: William Still’s The Underground Railroad

December 5, 2022December 4, 2022 Julia W. Bernier Activism, slavery

William Still, the leader of the Pennsylvania Abolition Society (PAS) Vigilance Committee, kept meticulous records on the hundreds of women

Black Americans and Wedding Rituals: An Interview with Tyler D. Parry

November 21, 2022November 18, 2022 Holly A. Pinheiro, Jr. #AAIHSRoundtable, #BlackFamily

This post is part of our forum on “The Significance of the Black Family in the US.” In today’s post,

The Relevance of 1619 in Black Family Oral History

November 15, 2022November 12, 2022 Colita Nichols Fairfax #AAIHSRoundtable, #BlackFamily, slavery

This post is part of our forum on “The Significance of the Black Family in the US.” The 400th Commemoration