“Most needed blessings”: The “all lives matter” debate in 1837
Think the current controversy over “black lives matter” is new? African American activists wrestled with the question almost 200 years
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“One Continuous Graveyard”: Emancipation and the Birth of the Professional Police Force
This is a guest post by Keri Leigh Merritt, a historian of the 19th c. American South. She received her
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Muhammad Ali, Freedom Road, and the Legacy of Reconstruction
Today we’re featuring a guest post by Robert Bland, a doctoral candidate in the Department of History at the University
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Post-Traumatic Slave Syndrome is a Racist Idea
For a generation of open-minded Americans, the original Roots miniseries in 1977 uprooted fields of racist ideas of backward Africa,
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Introduction to the #WakandaSyllabus
The following list was compiled by Dr. Walter Greason, who is the author of The American Economy, a collection of
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