“One Continuous Graveyard”: Emancipation and the Birth of the Professional Police Force
This is a guest post by Keri Leigh Merritt, a historian of the 19th c. American South. She received her
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The “N-word”: Finding Clarity in a Redundant Debate
The following is a guest post co-authored by Tyler Parry and Clayton Finn. Parry is Assistant Professor of African American
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Is Post Traumatic Slave Syndrome Stamped from the Beginning?
This post was inspired by Professor Ibram X. Kendi’s insightful AAIHS critique of Professor Joy DeGruy’s equally insightful book Post
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Remembering Phillis Wheatley
In my last post, I commented on a specific newspaper piece from the May 18, 1827 edition of Freedom’s Journal,
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Making Jokes and History in An Octoroon
Last weekend I saw a performance of Branden Jacobs-Jenkins‘ play An Octoroon, which is a reimagining of Dion Boucicault’s The
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