By Bayley Marquez, author of Plantation Pedagogy: The Violence of Schooling across Black and Indigenous Space In the summer of 2023, as I was finishing reviewing the copy edits of my manuscript …
Read More >By James Walvin, author of Amazing Grace: A Cultural History of the Beloved Hymn It may seem odd for a historian of slavery to write a history of a popular hymn. In …
Read More >By Jim Walvin, author of A World Transformed: Slavery in the Americas and the Origins of Global Power Like most apprentice historians, I learned my trade on a specific, narrow area of …
Read More >The fundamental purpose for redressing atrocities is to accentuate a common humanity between perpetrator and victims. Roy L. Brooks, author of Atonement and Forgiveness: A New Model for Black Reparations An issue …
Read More >Welcome to the third post in our #7CheapThings blog series! Raj Patel & Jason W. Moore’s A History of the World in Seven Cheap Things focuses on seven areas that are the foundation of modern commerce: …
Read More >In recognition of Abraham Lincoln’s birthday, we observe his greatest, most lasting accomplishment: the abolition of slavery. Through this lens, we look at the historic and modern day slave trade to ask …
Read More >Today marks the 40th anniversary of Roots: The Saga of an American Family. To celebrate, we’re highlighting Matthew F. Delmont’s Making Roots: A Nation Captivated, which looks at the importance of the book and …
Read More >This is the last daily recap by Matthew Delmont, author of Making Roots: A Nation Captivated (coming August 2016) about the remake of Alex Haley’s Roots television miniseries airing on HISTORY Channel. If you have …
Read More >This is the third of four daily recaps by Matthew Delmont, author of Making Roots: A Nation Captivated (coming August 2016) about the remake of Alex Haley’s Roots television miniseries airing on HISTORY Channel. If you …
Read More >This is the second of four daily recaps by Matthew Delmont, author of Making Roots: A Nation Captivated (coming August 2016) about the remake of Alex Haley’s Roots television miniseries airing on HISTORY Channel. If …
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