black intellectual history - AAIHS

The Pittsburgh Courier’s Discursive Power, 1910-1940

“A Negro seaman whose ship was then in Boston Harbor was the first martyr in the cause of American independence,”

In 1974, Howard University Press published a powerful book documenting how racist ideas and practices incapacitated the US’s most historically

The recent passing of Bob Moses offers a quiet moment to consider the varied lessons intellectual historians—and others—should take from

The centennial of the Tulsa Massacre earlier this year provided a moment to reflect on perhaps the worst single incidence

What is the price of freedom? Is it worth the cost if failure means a return to slavery or death?