BOOK: Hartman’s Lose Your Mother
Saidiya V. Hartman, Lose Your Mother: A Journey Along the Atlantic Slave Route. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2007. via Farrar, Straus and Giroux: In Lose Your Mother, Saidiya Hartman traces […]
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BOOK: Johnston on the Yarrow-Turners of Virginia-Maryland
James H. Johnston, From Slave Ship to Harvard: Yarrow Mamout and the History of an African American Family. New York, NY: Fordham University Press, 2012. Via Fordham University Press: From Slave […]
ARTICLE: Littlefield on History, Poetry, and Natasha Trethewey’s Native Guard
Daniel C. Littlefield, “Reflections on the History Behind the Poetry of Natasha Trethewey.” Historically Speaking 14, no. 1 (2013): 15–18. Natasha Trethewey, Native Guard: Poems. First Edition. Boston: Mariner Books, […]
BOOK: Naylor on African Cherokees, Race, and Slavery
Celia E. Naylor. African Cherokees in Indian Territory: From Chattel to Citizens. Durham: The University of North Carolina Press, 2009. via University of North Carolina Press: Forcibly removed from their […]
BOOK: Kaye on Slave Neighborhoods and Social Space
Anthony E. Kaye. Joining Places: Slave Neighborhoods in the Old South. Durham: The University of North Carolina Press, 2009. via University of North Carolina Press: In this new interpretation of […]
BOOK: Butchart on Freed People and Education in the U.S. South
Ronald Butchart. Schooling the Freed People: Teaching, Learning, and the Struggle for Black Freedom, 1861-1876. Durham: The University of North Carolina Press, 2010. via University of North Carolina Press: Conventional […]
ESSAY: Shaffer on Emancipation and “What Mattered More?”
As 1862 drew to a close, as far as emancipation was concerned the nation’s attention was riveted on whether President Abraham Lincoln would finalize the Emancipation Proclamation. They had little […]
ESSAY: Foner on Lincoln & the Emancipation Proclamation
The Emancipation Proclamation is perhaps the most misunderstood of the documents that have shaped American history. Contrary to legend, Lincoln did not free the nearly four million slaves with a […]
FILM/ESSAYS: Chronicle “Conversation” on Spielberg’s Lincoln
The Conversation Blog at the Chronicle of Higher Ed hosted a roundtable on Spielberg’s recent release Lincoln: As viewers flock to see Lincoln, and reviewers rave about Daniel Day-Lewis’s performance, […]
CONF: Telling the History of Slavery: Scholarship, Museum Interpretation, and the Public at Thomas Jefferson’s Monticello
Fri, February 22, 2013, 9:00 am – Sat, February 23, 2013, 4:00 pm Reservations: Required This two-day event will feature panel discussions exploring recent innovations in slavery research and its […]
