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On the Mythologizing of United States History

March 16, 2021March 14, 2021 Matthew Teutsch black intellectual history, Civil Rights Movement, race, Racial Violence, white supremacy

On January 18th of this year, the same day the nation celebrated Martin Luther King, Jr. Day, the outgoing Trump

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Registration is Open: AAIHS’ 6th Annual Conference

March 1, 2021March 1, 2021 AAIHS Editors

#AAIHS2021 The African American Intellectual History Society (AAIHS)’s Sixth Annual Conference Conference Theme: The West March 19-20, 2021 A Virtual

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A Black Brazilian Immigrant and the Struggle Civil Rights in the U.S.

January 26, 2021January 26, 2021 Lloyd Belton Activism, African Diaspora, black protest, Gender, race, Resistance

Martin Luther King, Rosa Parks, Malcolm X, Frederick Douglass, Harriet Tubman, Sojourner Truth and Sarah Parker Remond are usually the

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The Black Republic: An Author’s Response

December 11, 2020December 10, 2020 Brandon Byrd #TheBlackRepublic, black intellectual history, black internationalism, Haiti

The most familiar story about nineteenth-century African Americans and the Haitian Revolution is a romanticized account of how the revolution

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African Americans, Black Internationalism, and the Fate of Haiti

December 10, 2020January 11, 2021 Christina Davidson #TheBlackRepublic, African Diaspora, black internationalism, black radical tradition, Caribbean, Haiti, Resistance

*This post is part of our online roundtable on Brandon R. Byrd’s The Black Republic. From the outside looking in, there

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