As picked by the editors of Black Perspectives. Authors include Martha Jones, Julius Scott, David Blight, Lillian Barger, Daina Ramey Berry, Keisha Berry, Gerald Horne, and Imani Perry. Subjects include: slavery in antebellum America, the Haitian Revolution, Frederick Douglass, liberation...
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*Black Perspectives* Will Host a Forum on Frederick Douglass
This is going to be good. The forum will include posts by Brandon Byrd, Kenneth Morris, Neil Roberts, Manisha Sinha, David Blight, Leigh Fought, Christopher Bonner, and Noelle Trent. Here is what you can expect: Black Perspectives, the award-winning blog of...
W.E.B Du Bois Forum at *Black Perspectives*
This week, for the anniversary of Du Bois‘s death on August 27, 1963, the editors of the online magazine Black Perspectives have republished an online forum on Du Bois that originally appeared in February. The forum includes short pieces from Whitney Battle-Baptiste,...
How Did African Americans Remember the Civil War?
Ashleigh Lawrence-Sanders, a Ph.D candidate in the History department at Rutgers University, tackles this question in a piece at Black Perspectives titled “Beyond Monuments: African Americans Contesting Civil War Memory.” Here is a taste: African Americans worked from the end of...
Summer Internship Opportunity at *Black Perspectives*
Here it is: Black Perspectives, the blog of the African American Intellectual History Society (AAIHS), is currently accepting applications for our inaugural summer editorial internship program. The internship, which begins on June 1st and ends on August 31st, is open...