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Conclusion: Roundtable on The Age of Garvey by Adam Ewing

November 30, 2015December 30, 2016 Guest Poster #AAIHSRoundtable, #AgeofGarvey, Garveyism, Marcus Garvey, Universal Negro Improvement Association

This is the final day of our roundtable on Adam Ewing’s book, The Age of Garvey: How a Jamaican Activist

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On Slavery, Freedom, and Belonging

November 22, 2015November 22, 2015 Jared Hardesty black intellectual history, colonial America, slavery

Last month, I wrote a post contemplating how historians can write African American intellectual history before the American Revolution and

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Another symbol of the Confederacy falls

October 28, 2015October 31, 2015 Patrick Rael Jefferson Davis

Bowdoin College recently declared that it will no longer offer the Jefferson Davis Award to a student excelling in constitutional

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The ‘Dixie Narrative’ and the Meaning of Slavery

September 16, 2015March 26, 2017 Guest Poster slavery

*This is a guest post from Ibrahim Sundiata, emeritus professor of African/Afro-American Studies and History at Brandeis University. Sundiata is

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“Concede Nothing” – How to Remember a Storm Ten Years Later

September 12, 2015September 13, 2015 Jessica Marie Johnson Activism, black intellectual history, black politics, black protest, slavery

This year marked ten years since Hurricane Katrina made landfall. To say New Orleans and the entire Gulf Coast would

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