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Birmingham in Five Acts

January 14, 2016January 14, 2016 Brandon Byrd Civil Rights Movement, convict leasing, mass incarceration, South

Beginnings John T. Milner had big goals for a new railroad connecting north and south Alabama. The man just named

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“Bringer of Problems”: Charles H. Long and the Basic Question of Humanity

December 9, 2015December 9, 2015 Chris Cameron

Today’s guest post was written by Corey D. B. Walker, Dean of the College and John W. and Anna Hodgin

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AAIHS OFFICERS

Current Executive Board President: Robert Greene II Robert Greene II is an Assistant Professor of History at Claflin University. He

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The Age of Garvey and the Reconstruction of the Global Garveyist Frontier

November 23, 2015December 30, 2016 Guest Poster #AAIHSRoundtable, #AgeofGarvey, Garveyism, Marcus Garvey

Over the next few days (November 23-30, 2015), we are hosting a roundtable on Adam Ewing’s The Age of Garvey:

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“Concede Nothing” – How to Remember a Storm Ten Years Later

September 12, 2015September 13, 2015 Jessica Marie Johnson Activism, black intellectual history, black politics, black protest, slavery

This year marked ten years since Hurricane Katrina made landfall. To say New Orleans and the entire Gulf Coast would

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