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Registration is Open: AAIHS’ 6th Annual Conference

March 1, 2021March 1, 2021 AAIHS Editors

#AAIHS2021 The African American Intellectual History Society (AAIHS)’s Sixth Annual Conference Conference Theme: The West March 19-20, 2021 A Virtual

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Black Women, Intimacy, and Freedom in the Atlantic World

February 26, 2021February 21, 2021 Robert D. Taber African Diaspora, archives, black feminism, Black women, Gender, race, slave trade, slavery

Trite historical surveys of the Black experience in the United States will feature questions of identity politics (Combahee River Collective

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Martin Luther King Jr.’s Challenge to his Liberal Allies

February 22, 2021February 21, 2021 Jeanne Theoharis

“We do not need allies more devoted to order than to justice,” Martin Luther King, Jr. wrote in the spring

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How Enslaved People Found A Pathway to Self-discovery

February 10, 2021February 8, 2021 Tyler Parry africa, religion, slavery

In 1837, Charles Ball published a memoir recounting his experience as one enslaved for forty years in the states of

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A Family History of British Empire

February 5, 2021January 30, 2021 Mary Hicks African Diaspora, black feminism, Black women, Caribbean

“Where are you from?”—The deceptively simple question looms over the sprawling narrative of Imperial Intimacies: A Tale of Two Islands,

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