Black Burials and Civil War Forgetting in Olustee, Florida
This post is part of our online forum on Black Military Families in the Nineteenth Century. Like so many Civil War battlefields,
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Zora Neale Hurston’s Anthropological Legacy
As the twentieth century shrinks in the collective imagination of American popular culture, select iconographic images and sounds remain eternal.
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Slavery and Rebellion in Eighteenth-Century New Jersey
Chattel enslavement was introduced into the colony of New Jersey in the seventeenth century, shortly after the Dutch first settled
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Black Student Activism and the Origins of the Stanford Canon Debate
In the late 1980s, the Stanford University Black Student Union stood at the center of a controversy involving the school’s
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Rosewood Massacre at 100: Black Florida History and White Terror
A version of the following comments was delivered at the opening of the exhibit An Elegy to Rosewood at the
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