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Uncovering New Sources for Research on Black Religion

September 26, 2017October 1, 2017 Danielle Brune Sigler #AAIHSRoundtable, #NewWorld, religion

This post is part of our online roundtable on Judith Weisenfeld’s New World A-Coming Judith Weisenfeld opens her book New World A-Coming with

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Race, Necropower, and Natural Disasters

September 23, 2017September 27, 2017 Dan Royles carceral state, environment, race

In the last month, Hurricanes Harvey and Irma devastated Texas and Florida, killing scores of people and leaving many more

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Black Women, Agency, and the Civil War

September 22, 2017November 1, 2017 Karen Cook Bell Black women, emancipation, reconstruction, slavery, W.E.B. Du Bois

Throughout much of the twentieth century historians framed the Civil War as a political and military driven historical process, which

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The Wall of Respect: A New Book on Public Art and Black Liberation

September 15, 2017September 16, 2017 Ibram X. Kendi art, Black Power, black protest, Chicago

This post is part of my blog series that announces the publication of selected new books in African American History

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Remembering Black Women in St. Louis’s Pruitt-Igoe Housing Projects

September 9, 2017September 12, 2017 Candace Borders Black women, housing, Missouri, St. Louis

An eerie calm has settled over the 57-acre lot where the Pruitt-Igoe Homes once loomed over St. Louis, Missouri. Today,

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