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George Hackett, Baltimore’s Birthright Citizen

August 3, 2021August 3, 2021 Martha S. Jones #AAIHSRoundtable, #contestedcitizenship, black politics

*This post is part of our roundtable on “Contested Citizenship,” organized in collaboration with the Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study

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Introduction to “Contested Citizenship” Roundtable

August 2, 2021August 3, 2021 Lisa A. Monroe #AAIHSRoundtable, #contestedcitizenship, black lives matter, education

*This post is part of our roundtable on “Contested Citizenship,” organized in collaboration with the Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study

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Online Forum–Contested Citizenship: Legacies of American Slavery

July 26, 2021July 26, 2021 AAIHS Editors #AAIHSRoundtable, black politics, civil rights

August 2, 2021 to August 10, 2021 Black Perspectives, the award-winning blog of the African American Intellectual History Society (AAIHS), is collaborating

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Black Women, the Civil War, and United States Colored Troops

July 20, 2021July 19, 2021 Holly A. Pinheiro, Jr. Activism, Black women, Resistance

  In 1887, William J. Simmons, a United States Colored Troops (USCT) veteran turned historian, expressed his gratitude to Black

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Black Women and American Freedom in Revolutionary America

July 13, 2021July 13, 2021 Karen Cook Bell black intellectual history, Black women, Resistance

What is the price of freedom? Is it worth the cost if failure means a return to slavery or death?

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