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Teaching Maria Stewart and Antebellum Black Public Spheres

April 7, 2015 Chernoh Sesay Jr. primary source, teaching

I find that students intuitively understand the concept of the black public sphere as a “safe space” for the expression

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Easter 1942, A Reflection on the Double Victory Campaign

April 4, 2015April 5, 2015 Noelle Trent

Since this is the Easter holiday weekend, I thought it would be appropriate to reflect on another Easter 73 years

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Frederick Douglass’s Narrative and Teaching Intellectual History

March 26, 2015March 26, 2015 Chris Cameron

Frederick Douglass is widely recognized as one of, if not the, foremost black intellectuals of the 19th century. His wide-ranging

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Slave Trading and the “When” of Gender

March 15, 2015March 16, 2015 Greg Childs

In 1798, in the captaincy of Pernambuco in the northeast region of the Portuguese colony of Brazil, a young woman

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Women’s History Month: The Legacy of the Fight over the 15th Amendment

March 2, 2015March 2, 2015 Noelle Trent Fifteenth Amendment, Frederick Douglass

                     During the past week, Patricia Arquette’s comments during her Oscars acceptance speech have ignited debate across

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