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The Reconstruction Origins of Black Wall Street

June 1, 2021May 30, 2021 Alexandra E. Stern archives, black protest, race, Resistance, Tulsa

The 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre targeted and destroyed the city’s prosperous Greenwood District, home to a vibrant economy of Black-owned businesses that

Call for Submissions: Juneteenth and the Black Experience

May 21, 2021June 5, 2021 AAIHS Editors Historical Memory

Editor: Robert Greene II, Ph.D. Black Perspectives is inviting blog posts centering around the Juneteenth holiday in time for the

Holly Pinheiro

Holly Pinheiro received his doctoral degree from the University of Iowa. He is an Assistant Professor of African American History

The History of African American Visual Culture

April 1, 2021March 31, 2021 Mary N. Mitchell art, Black Arts Movement, freedom, race, racism, slavery, Visual Culture

If you were lucky enough to see “The Soul of a Nation: Art in the Age of Black Power,” an

#AAIHS2021: A Virtual Conference on “The West”

March 19, 2021April 18, 2021 Stefan Bradley

Today, the African American Intellectual History Society (AAIHS) begins its sixth annual conference–and our first ever virtual conference! This year’s