policing - AAIHS

The End of Policing: A New Book on the Problem of Policing

This post is part of our blog series that announces the publication of selected new books in African American History

On July 11, 2017, a video circulated throughout social media depicting the San Diego police deploying a canine against an

This month, I interviewed Professor Elizabeth Kai Hinton on her new book, The War on Poverty to the War on

“Don’t you see no connection between atom-bomb-dropping in Japan and shin-kicking in Virginia?” asked Simple. “No direct connection,” I said.

This is a guest post by Keri Leigh Merritt, a historian of the 19th c. American South. She received her