In Afeni’s Shadow: the Impact of Trauma on a Revolutionary Life
Tupac Shakur wrote “Dear Mama” to celebrate his mother’s strength and plea for her love. The song is an unfiltered
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Women
Black Women and Union Widowhood: An Interview with Brandi Brimmer
This post is part of our online forum on Black Military Families in the Nineteenth Century. Black Perspectives’ Senior editor, Holly Pinheiro,
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Correcting the Anti-Black Civil War Commemorative Landscape in Harrisburg, PA
This post is part of our online forum on Black Military Families in the Nineteenth Century. Dedicated during the national reckoning of
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The Families of the Louisiana Native Guards
This post is part of our online forum on Black Military Families in the Nineteenth Century. On May 1, 1861,
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Online Forum–Black Civil War and Public Memory
April 24, 2022 to April 28, 2023 Black Perspectives, the award-winning blog of the African American Intellectual History Society (AAIHS), is hosting
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