Capitalism and Slavery: Reflections on the Williams Thesis
The thing we call slavery and the thing we call capitalism both continue to provoke scholars with their
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What’s Past is Present: Teaching Black Student Protest at Duke
As Dr. Ibram X. Kendi wrote in his recent post on black student protest, the Black Campus Movement of the 1960s was
Read moreThe Power of Place, History, and Preservation: Reflections on the 2015 PastForward Conference
Last week I attended PastForward, the National Trust for Historic Preservation’s annual conference in Washington, DC. As a first time
Read moreBlack-Jewish Nostalgia and Black Lives Matter
The following guest post was written by David Weinfeld. He is a sessional instructor at the Centre for the Study
Read moreAnother symbol of the Confederacy falls
Bowdoin College recently declared that it will no longer offer the Jefferson Davis Award to a student excelling in constitutional
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