Struggle and Progress: A Framework for African American History
(Four books that synthesize African American history: To Make Our World Anew, edited by Robin D. G. Kelley and Earl
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The ‘Capitalized Womb’: A Review of Ned and Constance Sublette’s The American Slave Coast
Recently, I was asked to sit on a panel at the CUNY Graduate Center to discuss Ned & Constance Sublette’s
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Finding Agency in Unexpected Places
Ezekiel Price was a notary public in Boston, Massachusetts whose career spanned from the 1750s until the 1780s. He dutifully
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A Meditation on Rape, Rape Culture, News, and History
Today’s guest blog post is written by Starita Smith, a former daily newspaper reporter and editor. She worked for the Gary
Read moreThe Early Scholarship of John Hope Franklin
The famed European historian, A.J.P. Taylor, remarked that “nothing is inevitable until it happens.” John Hope Franklin, who throughout a
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