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On Stanford’s All White Male History Conference

April 7, 2018April 13, 2018 Sasha Turner, Barbara Molony, and Sandra Dawson Black women, black women scholars, education

In December 1969, a group of historians organized the Coordinating Committee of Women Historians in the Profession, which, in 1995,

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Police Violence and the Debate Over Gun Control

March 15, 2018March 19, 2018 Nicole Jackson police brutality, police violence, policing, Racial Violence

In the aftermath of the Parkland shooting, the National Rifle Association (NRA) entered the news as their successful lobbying of

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The Communist Reimagining of Black History

March 12, 2018March 15, 2018 Denise Lynn Claudia Jones, Communism, Harriet Tubman, Historical Memory, slavery

The American Communist Party was aware that history was a powerful tool. It frequently used history in its propaganda to

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Black Panther and the Politics of Black Heroism

March 10, 2018March 15, 2018 Sheena Howard #BlackPanther, #comicsandrace

*This post is part of our new blog series on The World of the Black Panther. This series, edited by Julian Chambliss and Walter

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Writing on Poor Whites and Slavery in the Antebellum South

March 9, 2018March 15, 2018 Keri Leigh Merritt #MasterlessMen, poverty, reconstruction, slavery, South

*This post is part of our roundtable on Keri Leigh Merritt’s Masterless Men. First, I want to take a moment to thank the

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