“Racial Strife That’s Making Milwaukee Infamous”–Then and Now
Many Americans have read or seen the fiery aftermath following the recent police killing of Sylville Smith, but few are
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Black Intellectual History and STEM: A Conversation with Dr. Chanda Prescod-Weinstein
This month, I interviewed Dr. Chanda Prescod-Weinstein on the intersections of black intellectual history and STEM. Dr. Prescod-Weinstein is a
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Welfare Reform Syllabus
This syllabus was originally published on the website of the Anna Julia Cooper Center and is reprinted here with permission.
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What’s in a List?: Early African Americans in an Age of Consumer Revolution
As many scholars of early African American life can attest, one of the most vexing aspects of doing research is
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Sex, Blood, and Belonging in the Early Republic
The following remarks were delivered in June 2016 at the Society for Historians of the Early American Republic Annual Meeting.
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