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The “Black Republic:” The Meaning of Haitian Independence before the Occupation

February 13, 2015February 13, 2015 Brandon Byrd

This is the second entry in a series on the centennial of the U.S. occupation of Haiti. The introduction to

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Online Forum–Hip Hop at 50

August 10, 2023August 10, 2023 AAIHS Editors #HipHop50, #HipHopSeries, hip hop

August 14, 2023 to August 25, 2023 Black Perspectives, the award-winning blog of the African American Intellectual History Society (AAIHS), is hosting

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Black Widows and the Struggle for Pensions after the Civil War

January 12, 2023January 6, 2023 Hilary Green #FamiliesCivilWar, #Roundtable, Black Family, Civil War, Pensions, Women

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

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Reflections on African American Intellectual History

June 13, 2019June 9, 2019 Pero G. Dagbovie #AAIHSRoundtable, #RethinkingAAIH, black intellectual history, black politics, Black women, black women scholars, education, race

*This post is part of our online forum titled “What is African American Intellectual History?“ In the mid-1970s when the

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Beyond Romantic Advertisements: Ancestry.com, Genealogy, and White Supremacy

May 10, 2019May 7, 2019 Adam H. Domby Historical Memory, primary source, racism, slavery

Ancestry.com has recently come under a lot of well-deserved criticism for whitewashing slavery with a new advertisement that portrays an

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