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Dangerous Neighbors: A New Book on the Haitian Revolution’s Impact on Early America

August 1, 2016January 1, 2017 Ibram X. Kendi Haiti, Haitian Revolution

This post is part of a new and recurring blog series I am editing–announcing the publication of selected new books

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From the War on Poverty to the War on Crime: An Interview with Elizabeth Hinton

July 30, 2016July 30, 2016 Garrett Felber mass incarceration, policing, poverty

This month, I interviewed Professor Elizabeth Kai Hinton on her new book, The War on Poverty to the War on

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#CharlestonSyllabus: An Interview with Chad Williams, Kidada E. Williams, and Keisha N. Blain

July 28, 2016January 1, 2017 Guest Poster #CharlestonSyllabus, Charleston, South Carolina

This interview originally appeared on Process, the blog of the Organization of American Historians, The Journal of American History, and

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#TheHistorySoundtable II: 70 Recent History Books by Black Women

July 23, 2016July 23, 2016 Guest Poster black women scholars

Co-authored by Sowande’ Mustakeem and Keisha N. Blain In recognition of the dynamic work being done by black women scholars,

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Mapping Downtown Asheville Through Protest: Black Lives Matter and Public Spaces

July 22, 2016July 17, 2016 Guest Poster black lives matter, police brutality, police violence

This is a guest post by Nathan H. Dize, a PhD student in the Department of French and Italian at

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