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“An Oasis in Turbulent Times”: Black Towns, Black Futures

May 7, 2020May 3, 2020 Camille Goldmon blackness, entrepreneurs, Historical Memory

Mound Bayou, Mississippi, founded by Isaiah T. Montgomery—formerly enslaved by Joseph Davis—and his relative Benjamin Green, tells a story of

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W.E.B. Du Bois: A New Book on The Life of a Radical Scholar

May 1, 2020April 26, 2020 J. T. Roane biography, Black radicalism, W.E.B. Du Bois

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

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Making a World: Comics, Meaning, and the Dakotaverse

October 7, 2019October 6, 2019 Julian Chambliss #MilestoneMedia, comic books, comics, geography, race, urban history

*This post is part of our online forum on the Black-owned and -controlled Milestone Media. In Milestone Forever, a documentary

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Documenting Nannie Helen Burroughs: A New Book About a Pioneering Civil Rights Leader

July 12, 2019July 8, 2019 J. T. Roane Activism, black politics, Black women, civil rights, race, Resistance

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

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On Education and African American Intellectual History

June 14, 2019June 12, 2019 Derrick P. Alridge #AAIHSRoundtable, #RethinkingAAIH, Activism, black intellectual history, black politics, Black women, education, education reform, Historiography, race

*This post is part of our online forum titled “What is African American Intellectual History?“ As a scholar in African

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