Slavery, New Orleans, and the Counting Blues
In “Countin’ the Blues,” Gertrude “Ma” Rainey sings, “Layin’ in my bed with my face turned to the wall…Tryin’ to
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“An Outrage”: A New Film about Lynching in the American South
This post is part of a new blog series that announces the release of new films in African American History
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From Concentration Camps to the Senate: Black Women in the French Resistance
The role that over a million African soldiers played in World War II has garnered interest in recent years. Calls for countries
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#AAIHS2017: Expanding the Boundaries of Black Intellectual History
The past year has certainly been an exciting one for the African American Intellectual History Society (AAIHS). In the months
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The Moral Challenge of the Middle Passage
This is the introduction to our online roundtable on Sowande’ Mustakeem’s Slavery at Sea The field of Middle Passage Studies
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