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Black Women and Union Widowhood: An Interview with Brandi Brimmer

April 28, 2023April 25, 2023 Holly A. Pinheiro, Jr. #BlackMilitaryFamilies, Black women, Civil War, interview, Pension

This post is part of our online forum on Black Military Families in the Nineteenth Century. Black Perspectives’  Senior editor, Holly Pinheiro,

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The Families of the Louisiana Native Guards

April 26, 2023April 25, 2023 Anthony J. Cade II #BlackMilitaryFamilies, Black Family, Civil War, Louisiana, Women

This post is part of our online forum on Black Military Families in the Nineteenth Century. On May 1, 1861,

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Black Soldiers and their Families’ Activism during the Antebellum Era

April 24, 2023April 24, 2023 Holly A. Pinheiro, Jr. #AAIHSRoundtable, #BlackMilitaryFamilies, Activism, slavery

This post is part of our online forum on Black Military Families in the Nineteenth Century. For many people today,

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Reassessing African-European Encounters

April 20, 2023April 19, 2023 Nancy A. Andoh africa, African Diaspora, Afro-European Encounter, Black Atlantic, Black Europe, Political Thought, slavery

Herman L. Bennett’s African Kings and Black Slaves: Sovereignty and Dispossession in the Early Modern Atlantic, is a prelude to an

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AP African American Studies, CRT, and Redressing Institutional Racism

April 19, 2023April 18, 2023 Anique John African American Studies, Black Studies, Critical Race Theory, CRT, Institutional Racism, racism

It is an undeniable fact that institutional racism plagues America. On February 7, 2023, at the State of the Union

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