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Invisible No More: A New Book on Police Violence Against Women of Color

October 7, 2017October 9, 2017 Julie Hawks Immigration, police brutality, police violence, racist ideas

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

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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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Panel Forum for #AAIHS2018 Conference

September 2, 2017September 6, 2017 AAIHS Editors #AAIHS2018

The committee for the 2018 AAIHS annual conference recently released the CFP for submissions related to the theme, Black Thought Matters. As we

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Black Periodicals and the Politics of Racial Uplift

July 29, 2017August 2, 2017 Kevin C. Quin black press, Chicago

During the mid-twentieth century, the economic growth following World War II marked an incredible period of production and consumption in

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Frederick Douglass on the Fourth of July

July 4, 2017July 6, 2017 AAIHS Editors Frederick Douglass, slavery

*The following post is an abridged version of Fredrick Douglass‘ famed speech, “What to the Slave is the Fourth of

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