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2016 AAIHS Conference: New Perspectives on the Black Intellectual Tradition

March 1, 2016March 6, 2016 Ashley Farmer

The upcoming year promises to be an exciting one for the African American Intellectual History Society. Not only is the

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On Black History Month & Black Historical Writing: An Interview with Stephen G. Hall

February 23, 2016February 23, 2016 Brandon Byrd black intellectual history, black politics, Historiography

This Black History Month, I interviewed Stephen G. Hall, the Program Coordinator of History at Alcorn State University. He has

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Race, Reconstruction, and Reparations

February 9, 2016February 9, 2016 Guest Poster slavery

This is a guest post by Keri Leigh Merritt, a historian of the 19th c. American South. She received her

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Birmingham in Five Acts

January 14, 2016January 14, 2016 Brandon Byrd Civil Rights Movement, convict leasing, mass incarceration, South

Beginnings John T. Milner had big goals for a new railroad connecting north and south Alabama. The man just named

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Abolition in the New Year

January 7, 2016January 6, 2016 Chernoh Sesay Jr. Absalom Jones, religion, Richard Allen, slave trade, slavery

Far more people probably know the importance of January 1, 1863 than they do the significance of January 1, 1808.

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