Some Tips for Writing a Strong NEH Proposal
With the deadline for the National Endowment for the Humanities fellowship program a little over a month away, I thought
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Frederick Douglass’s Narrative and Teaching Intellectual History
Frederick Douglass is widely recognized as one of, if not the, foremost black intellectuals of the 19th century. His wide-ranging
Read moreLet’s Talk about Race!, or Let’s Talk about Race?
In the past week or so, Starbucks has made itself an easy target for criticism and ridicule with the “Race Together”
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Searching for Lucy Parsons: A Racial Riddle
This is a guest post by Emily England, a senior history and anthropology double major with a museum studies minor
Read moreSlave Trading and the “When” of Gender
In 1798, in the captaincy of Pernambuco in the northeast region of the Portuguese colony of Brazil, a young woman
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