Historical Memory – AAIHS

Hugging History: Sense and Memory in HBO’s Watchmen

February 13, 2020February 13, 2020 Ambre Dromgoole 0 Comments
#Watchmen, Historical Memory, popular culture, race, spirituality, Visual Culture

*This post is part of our online forum organized by Ahmad Greene-Hayes on HBO’s hit series Watchmen. In episode 2

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Contemplating the Black Atlantic

January 27, 2020January 26, 2020 Celeste Henery 0 Comments
African Diaspora, environment, environmentalism, Historical Memory

If transatlantic slavery remains one of the foundational premises of a Black or African Diaspora, then the great ocean—the Atlantic—holds

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1619?

January 14, 2020January 12, 2020 Sasha Turner 8 Comments
africa, African Diaspora, archives, Historical Memory, slave trade, slavery

We are living in a “memory boom” he says. From Charleston to New York, the national mall and university halls,

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The Last Lynching Victim in South Carolina

October 31, 2019October 25, 2019 Brent M. S. Campney 0 Comments
book review, Historical Memory, Jim Crow, lynching, Racial Violence, racism, South

In They Stole Him Out of Jail: Willie Earle, South Carolina’s Last Lynching Victim, William B. Gravely, professor emeritus at

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Enslaved African Americans hoe and plow the earth and cut piles of sweet potatoes on a South Carolina plantation, circa 1862-3 (Image courtesy of Library of Congress)

The Curious History of Anthony Johnson: From Captive African to Right-wing Talking Point

July 22, 2019July 22, 2019 Tyler Parry African Diaspora, archives, black politics, education, Historical Memory, Politics, race, reparations, slavery

In various corners of the internet, memes circulate about a Black man identified as “Anthony Johnson,” believed to be a

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