Search Results for: slavery

Finding Agency in Unexpected Places

March 22, 2016March 20, 2016 Jared Hardesty black politics, freedom, primary source, slavery

Ezekiel Price was a notary public in Boston, Massachusetts whose career spanned from the 1750s until the 1780s. He dutifully

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On John Pory, America’s First Racist

March 21, 2016March 31, 2016 Ibram X. Kendi

Have you ever heard the name John Pory? It is a name all students of American history should know. It

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Thoughts on Underground

March 18, 2016March 17, 2016 Noelle Trent

Warning this post contains spoilers I first heard about WGN America’s Underground back in October, shortly after I started working

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Eslanda Robeson’s African Journeys

March 17, 2016March 17, 2016 Guest Poster black internationalism, Black women, black women's internationalism, Eslanda Robeson

This is a guest post by Dr. Annette Joseph-Gabriel, a scholar of Francophone Caribbean literature and culture. Her areas of

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Teaching Histories of Graffiti

March 15, 2016March 15, 2016 Greg Childs

“Wait, what!? How do you even teach this kind of history?” “What kind of texts do you use in class?”

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