Black Women and Civil War Pensions
By the late-nineteenth-century, Civil War pensions not only comprised a quarter of the federal budget, but they also provided a
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Unmarked and Unburied: the Unsettling of Black Death
The contemporary “discovery” of unmarked graves and unburied bodies of African Americans remains a disturbing reality of the Black experience.
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Bob Moses and the Fighting Spirit of Black Intellectual History
The recent passing of Bob Moses offers a quiet moment to consider the varied lessons intellectual historians—and others—should take from
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Blackness, Norwegian Identity, and Nationality
Speaking about his research, 2019 Holberg Laureate Paul Gilroy told the committee, “I am particularly engaged by the fate of people
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Black Mothers and the Lingering Wounds of Racial Violence
The resulting grief and trauma that follows Black mothers whose children are victims of terrorizing acts of racial violence persist
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