Search Results for: Civil War

The Racial Politics of Demobilizing USCT Regiments

February 2, 2022February 1, 2022 Holly A. Pinheiro, Jr. racism, South

On April 9, 1865, Robert E. Lee (commander of the Confederate States Army) formally surrendered to Ulysses S. Grant (commander

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A Review of 2021 Books in Black Intellectual History

February 1, 2022January 31, 2022 Robert Greene II black intellectual history, Resistance

The following list is a sampling of books on African American history that were released during 2021. All of them

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A Sampling of Black Perspectives Posts: July to December 2021

January 27, 2022January 26, 2022 Robert Greene II Black Appalachia, black hair, black internationalism, public memory, United States Colored Troops

Black Perspectives continued its tradition of tying Black intellectual history to a wide range of fields throughout the second half

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The Familial Fight Against Racism

November 17, 2021November 16, 2021 Holly Pinheiro antebellum, Civil War, Gender, labor, Pennsylvania, United States Colored Troops, USCT

  The Civil War remains one of the most discussed and published historical topics. Often, public and academic discourse on

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FBI Harassment of Black Families

November 16, 2021November 15, 2021 Denise Lynn black intellectual history, Black radicalism, police violence

American anticommunism has always been an anti-democratic movement that seeks to silence radical voices. At its core, anti-communism has been

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