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Black Women and the Making of Human Rights

July 9, 2025July 8, 2025 Keisha N. Blain Black women, human rights, police violence, policing

Although I had been dabbling with the idea for quite some time, I started writing a book on Black women

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Social Welfare and the Politics of Race in the Post-Civil War South

May 24, 2023May 23, 2023 Ryan W. Keating Civil War, Freedman's Bureau, Pensions, reconstruction, Welfare

The policing of Black bodies has become an increasingly visible part of the American landscape, shining light on centuries-long violent

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Black Widows and the Struggle for Pensions after the Civil War

January 12, 2023January 6, 2023 Hilary Green #FamiliesCivilWar, #Roundtable, Black Family, Civil War, Pensions, Women

This post is part of our online roundtable on Holly A. Pinheiro Jr.’s The Families’ Civil War. From enlistment to the

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Reading Practices, Civil War Archive, and the Black Family

January 9, 2023January 7, 2023 Brandi C. Brimmer #AAIHSRoundtable, #FamiliesCivilWar, Resistance, slavery

This post is part of our online roundtable on Holly A. Pinheiro Jr.’s The Families’ Civil War. The Families’ Civil War:

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Online Roundtable–Holly A. Pinheiro Jr.’s ‘The Families’ Civil War’

January 6, 2023January 5, 2023 AAIHS Editors #FamiliesCivilWar, #Roundtable, Black Family, Civil War

Black Perspectives, the award-winning blog of the African American Intellectual History Society (AAIHS), is hosting a roundtable on Holly A. Pinheiro Jr.’s  The Families’

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