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Finding Toussaint L’Ouverture in Tennessee

In the summer of 1777, as musket balls flew about New York’s battlefields, José de Gálvez felt confident. The American

Although it has been months since the controversy over Dana Schutz’s painting, “Open Casket,” which depicted Emmett Till’s mutilated face

*The following post is an abridged version of Fredrick Douglass‘ famed speech, “What to the Slave is the Fourth of

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

“Our song, our toil, our cheer, and warming have been given to this nation in blood-brotherhood. Are not these gifts