Slavery, the Plantation Myth, and Alternative Facts
Earlier this year, NBC journalist Chuck Todd pressed the Counselor to the US President, Kellyanne Conway, to explain spurious claims made
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Race, Property, and Economic History: An Introduction
This post is the introduction to our online forum on Race, Property, and Economic History. What is erasure? How have Black residents been historically
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Civil Rights Playwrights as Black Intellectuals
In the Society for U.S. Intellectual History’s recent roundtable on Harold Cruse’s The Crisis of the Negro Intellectual, contributors reaffirmed the significance of
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The Weeping Time: A New Book on the Largest Slave Auction
This post is part of our blog series that announces the publication of selected new books in African American History
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African American Freedom and the Illusive “Forty Acres and a Mule”
On August 18, 2016, the United Nations Working Group on Experts of People of African Descent determined that the history
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