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The Defender and Chicago’s Built Environment

May 25, 2023May 23, 2023 Ray Dinsmore 0 Comments
black press, book review, Built Environment, Chicago, Chicago Defender, Ebony Magazine

In A House for the Struggle: The Black Press and the Built Environment in Chicago, author E. James West explores the

Slavery and Disability in Antebellum America

May 4, 2023May 3, 2023 Christopher D. E. Willoughby 0 Comments
antebellum, book review, disability, Gender, slavery

In 1794, U.S. inventor Eli Whitney patented a new type of cotton gin that could remove seeds from short staple

Zora Neale Hurston’s Anthropological Legacy

March 30, 2023March 23, 2023 Ida E. Jones 1 Comment
Anthropology, black feminism, book review, Womanism, Zora Neale Hurston

As the twentieth century shrinks in the collective imagination of American popular culture, select iconographic images and sounds remain eternal.

George Washington, Slavery, and Farming

February 16, 2023January 30, 2023 Rebecca Dudley 1 Comment
antebellum, book review, George Washington, slavery, Vast Early America

In Washington at the Plow: The Founding Farmer and the Question of Slavery, Bruce A. Ragsdale meticulously examines Washington’s activities

Online Roundtable-Adam Lee Cilli’s ‘Canaan, Dim and Far’

February 3, 2023February 3, 2023 AAIHS Editors #CanaanDim, #Roundtable, book review, citizenship, Pittsburgh

February 6–10, 2023 Black Perspectives, the award-winning blog of the African American Intellectual History Society (AAIHS), is hosting a roundtable on Adam Lee Cilli’s Canaan,

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