Norman Lewis and the Responsibility of Presentness
This post is part of our forum on Black Intellectuals and the Crisis of Democracy. The general consensus, scholarly and lay,
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Online Roundtable–Holly A. Pinheiro Jr.’s ‘The Families’ 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’
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Race, Religion, and The History Behind ‘Heathen’
Heathen: Religion and Race in American History, by Kathryn Gin Lum, argues that the label of “heathen” denotes a broad
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“The times requires this testimony”: William Still’s The Underground Railroad
William Still, the leader of the Pennsylvania Abolition Society (PAS) Vigilance Committee, kept meticulous records on the hundreds of women
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How Pauli Murray Masterminded Brown v. Board
This post is part of our forum on Black Women and the Brown v. Board of Education decision According to
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