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AAIHS Announcement: Welcome to the Incoming Executive Board!

August 31, 2021August 30, 2021 AAIHS Editors

We are excited to announce the newly elected Executive Board officers of the African American Intellectual History Society (AAIHS)! Each

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On the Making and Timely Re-Release of Reluctant Reformers

August 11, 2021August 9, 2021 Say Burgin Activism, black intellectual history, Black Power, usable past

In 1974, Howard University Press published a powerful book documenting how racist ideas and practices incapacitated the US’s most historically

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Policing Black Freedom

August 5, 2021August 5, 2021 Philip V. McHarris #contestedcitizenship, Activism, police violence, Resistance, slavery, W.E.B. Du Bois, white supremacy

*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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Myles Horton, Highlander, and the Beloved Community

July 29, 2021July 29, 2021 Robert Hunt Ferguson Activism, Civil Rights Movement, education, Jim Crow, Resistance, teaching

On the night of March 29, 2019, an administrative building at the Highlander Research and Education Center in New Market,

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Bob Moses and the Fighting Spirit of Black Intellectual History

July 28, 2021July 27, 2021 Robert Greene II black intellectual history, Civil Rights Movement

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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