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Military Service and Black Families During the Civil War

January 11, 2023January 6, 2023 Barbara A. Gannon #FamiliesCivilWar, #Roundtable, antebellum, Black Family, Civil War

This post is part of our online roundtable on Holly A. Pinheiro Jr.’s The Families’ Civil War. Somewhere in America today,

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Reading Practices, Civil War Archive, and the Black Family

January 9, 2023January 7, 2023 Brandi C. Brimmer #AAIHSRoundtable, #FamiliesCivilWar, Resistance, slavery

This post is part of our online roundtable on Holly A. Pinheiro Jr.’s The Families’ Civil War. The Families’ Civil War:

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Announcement: #AAIHS2023 Conference Guest Speakers

January 6, 2023January 5, 2023 AAIHS Editors #AAIHS2023, aaihs, conference, environmental justice

#AAIHS2023 The African American Intellectual History Society (AAIHS)’s Eighth Annual Conference Conference Theme: “We Can’t Breathe”: Crisis, Catastrophe and Sustaining

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Most Popular Black Perspectives Pieces of the Year

December 21, 2022December 18, 2022 Reighan Gillam Black Historians, Black History, Black Perspectives, Intellectual History, slavery

In 2022, Black Perspectives was alive with roundtables, forums, and individual posts that demonstrated the depth and breadth of Black

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The Untethered Tongue: Lifting the Black Feminine Voice in Jazz

December 16, 2022December 27, 2022 Sandra Booker Billie Holiday, jazz, music, Nina Simone, Women

What is freedom? Freedom is existing unrestrained in thoughts, actions, and achievements but is not absolved from the world’s reactions

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