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Author Allyson Nadia Field on rediscovering film and the first cinematic depiction of Black romance.

A Q&A with "Film Quarterly" contributor Anthony Michael D’Agostino

Who speaks out against fascism—is it only the most powerful or politically connected who can do so, or is it those whose rights are most in danger?

Hattie Noel was a trailblazer of the stand-up comedy form. While the visual archive shows her constrained in the controlling images of Disney’s hippo and Hollywood’s maid, her comedy albums tell a different story of Black representation.

Enjoy a paywall-free selection of recent articles from The Public Historian in celebration of NCPH’s mini-conference on the State of Public History in the South.

Following the murders of Ahmaud Arbery, Breonna Taylor, and George Floyd, a brief window of time opened to “take audacious steps to address systemic racial inequality.”

Orisanmi Burton describes his approach to writing his new book through a methodological approach he developed called archival war.

Melissa Ooten and Jason Sawyer present their alt-travel guide to Richmond and Central Virginia.

This blog post explores a lesser-known piece of Confederate iconography, the Southern Cross of Honor. The US government’s gradual complicity in the establishment of these markers reveals how, and why, some insurrections become legitimized over time.

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