Evan Turïano reports on #OAH2018 panels, including the "State of the Field: Abolition and Emancipation" for Muster: "In a question posed from the audience, Thavolia Glymph, Professor of History at Duke University, expressed shock that the state of the field was such that “Does emancipation matter?” was still an open question. She received the first … Continue reading BLOGROLL: Two Visions of Abolition and Emancipation #OAH18
Thavolia Glymph
VIDEO: Glymph on The System of Slavery, Domesticity, and Violence
Published on Mar 24, 2017: MOOC WHAW1.1x | Women Have Always Worked: The U.S. Experience 1700 - 1920 ColumbiaX | Alice Kessler-Harris "As we see American women coming into positions of unprecedented economic and political power, we start to wonder: why now? The Women Have Always Worked MOOC, offered in two parts, explores the history … Continue reading VIDEO: Glymph on The System of Slavery, Domesticity, and Violence
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, historians are raising different issues: How accurate is the film’s portrayal of emancipation? What does it leave out? The Chronicle Review asked several scholars to … Continue reading FILM/ESSAYS: Chronicle “Conversation” on Spielberg’s Lincoln
Antebellum Slavery in April 2009 OAH Magazine
Select articles available here (available in full to members of the Organization of American Historians). From the editor, Carl Weinberg: On March 26, 2009, just as the recent annual meeting of the Organization of American Historians (OAH) opened in Seattle, we received some sobering news: pioneering historian John Hope Franklin had died. He was 94 … Continue reading Antebellum Slavery in April 2009 OAH Magazine
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