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Creating an African American Identity and a New Nation

May 4, 2016May 4, 2016 Guest Poster black politics, black protest, colonial America, emancipation

This is a guest post by Daniel R. Mandell, Professor of History at Truman State University. Prof. Mandell recently received

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Du Bois-Wells Graduate Student Paper Prize

The AAIHS Conference Planning Committee invites submissions for the 2025 Graduate Student Conference Paper Prize named after W.E.B Du Bois

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Rendezvous with Freedom

April 23, 2016April 23, 2016 Christopher Bonner Harriet Tubman

“Change for a $20” read news blurbs on Wednesday, with the announcement that Harriet Tubman will appear on U.S. currency.

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Student Evaluations, Race, Politics, and “American Values”

April 7, 2016April 6, 2016 Chernoh Sesay Jr. black intellectual history, black politics, teaching

At the end of every term, with great trepidation, meditative breathing, and perhaps even a homemade cocktail, I look to

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The Mysterious Thelma X and the Struggle of Black Domestic Workers

April 3, 2016April 3, 2016 Garrett Felber black nationalism, Black women, Nation of Islam

Several years ago, I was looking through the papers of sociologist C. Eric Lincoln at the Robert W. Woodruff Library

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