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Brother to Brother: An Open Letter to Nate Parker

August 22, 2016August 21, 2016 Ibram X. Kendi black radical tradition, Nat Turner, rape

Dear Brother Nate: I write to you as my brother because I cannot think of anything else to call you

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What’s in a List?: Early African Americans in an Age of Consumer Revolution

August 21, 2016August 20, 2016 Jared Hardesty

As many scholars of early African American life can attest, one of the most vexing aspects of doing research is

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Nate Parker, Rape Culture, and Toxic Masculinity

August 20, 2016August 20, 2016 Deirdre Cooper Owens Nat Turner, Nate Parker, rape

Over the past seventy-two hours, the Internet has been abuzz over Nate Parker’s involvement in a seventeen-year-old rape case.  Journalists

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“Stalwart Presence for a Generation at Williams College”: Remembering Leslie Brown

August 17, 2016March 2, 2019 Don S. Polite, Jr. Leslie Brown

It should go without saying, but I miss Leslie Brown. What she did for an entire generation of scholars can

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Sex, Blood, and Belonging in the Early Republic

August 12, 2016August 11, 2016 Jessica Marie Johnson sexuality

The following remarks were delivered in June 2016 at the Society for Historians of the Early American Republic Annual Meeting.

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