Search Results for: Civil War

Women’s History Month: The Legacy of the Fight over the 15th Amendment

March 2, 2015March 2, 2015 Noelle Trent Fifteenth Amendment, Frederick Douglass

                     During the past week, Patricia Arquette’s comments during her Oscars acceptance speech have ignited debate across

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Dispatches from Shondalandia by a Slavery Historian (Vol. 2)

February 12, 2015February 12, 2015 Jessica Marie Johnson black feminism, feminism, law, reconstruction, slavery

“I am not yours.” – Kerry Washington as Olivia Pope, Scandal 2 X 3 “You might be Command, Dad, but

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Died of a theory

January 29, 2015February 1, 2015 Patrick Rael emancipation, Jefferson Davis

It’s been interesting to read the recent controversy over the existence and prevalence of “black Confederates” during the Civil War.

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“…they had no rights which the white man was bound to respect…”

January 2, 2015January 4, 2015 Noelle Trent police brutality

“They had for more than a century before been regarded as beings of an inferior order, and altogether unfit to

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Afterlives of the Plantation: An Interview with Jarvis C. McInnis

January 23, 2026January 22, 2026 Robert Greene II 1 Comment

In today’s post, Dr. Robert Greene II, Former AAIHS President and Associate Professor of History at Claflin University, interviews Dr.

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