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Slavery and the History of Abolition: An Interview with Manisha Sinha

March 3, 2018March 5, 2018 Rebecca Brenner Graham Activism, slavery

In today’s post, Rebecca Brenner, a PhD candidate in the Department of History at American University, interviews Manisha Sinha on

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Surviving Slavery in the British Caribbean: A New Book on Atlantic Slavery

January 27, 2018February 2, 2018 Keisha N. Blain African Diaspora, archives, Caribbean, freedom, slavery

This post is part of our blog series that announces the publication of selected new books in African American History

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A More Beautiful and Terrible History: A New Book on the Civil Rights Movement

January 22, 2018January 25, 2018 Ibram X. Kendi civil rights, Civil Rights Movement, Historical Memory, Martin Luther King Jr.

This post is part of our blog series that announces the publication of selected new books in African American History

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Centrist Liberalism and the Myths of the American Past

December 13, 2017December 18, 2017 Westenley Alcenat Donald Trump, Immigration, Racial Capitalism, reconstruction, Trumpism, W.E.B. Du Bois, white supremacy

We are now a full year into the Trump Administration, and a serious ideological challenge has yet to be leveled

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Revolutionary Optimism in Despicable Times

November 4, 2017November 8, 2017 Russell Rickford black lives matter, Black October, Marxism, Russian Revolution

This post is part of our online forum, “Black October,” on the Russian Revolution and the African Diaspora “Life is not an

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