BLOGROLL: Bailey on the #1619Project
“Recently, I have been concerned at the pushback by a few historians of note. First, I should say, as a disclaimer, that my article on The Weeping time slave auction appears at the end of the issue,...
View ArticleDIGITAL/NEWS: Ethnic Studies Rise! #LorgiaFest
“Welcome. “Ethnic Studies Rise” is a public humanities effort to honor the extraordinary contributions of scholar Dr. Lorgia García Peña.“We will accomplish this in two ways: First, through a...
View ArticleNEWS: Year of Return
“In 1999, former president of Benin, Mathieu Kireka, fell to his knees, begging the African diaspora for forgiveness for his country’s role in the Transatlantic Slave Trade, a trade that affected the...
View ArticleMar 25: International Day of Remembrance of the Victims of Slavery and the...
Today is the International Day of Remembrance of the Victims of Slavery and the Transatlantic Slave Trade. The 2019 theme is “Remember Slavery: The Power of the Arts for Justice” Since the time of the...
View ArticleSupport One Book One New Orleans & Walking Raddy Book Launch!
Reposted from DH the Blog: Proud to be one of the contributors and part of this historic volume which is also fundraising for One Book, One New Orleans!! If you can, please donate and support the...
View ArticleThe Junto Blog Announces New Bloggers
Looking forward to the Junto reboot featuring new bloggers, including historians of slavery Vanessa Holden and Ebony Jones. Also new: Carla Cevasco, an assistant professor of history at Rutgers...
View ArticleNEWS/ART: Kara Walker’s Katastwóf Karavan
Items related to Kara Walker’s Katastwóf Karavan, on display February 2018 during Prospect.4 in New Orleans. Siddhartha Mitter (Village Voice) – Carnival of the Grotesque: Kara Walker’s Insistent...
View ArticleAWARD: 2018 AAIHS Award Recipients Announced
Congratulations Dr. Sasha Turner for winning the 2018 Maria Stewart Journal Article Prize for her article “The Nameless and the Forgotten: Maternal Grief, Sacred Protection, and the Archive of...
View ArticleCFP: Slavery in the Machine (@sxarchipelagos, Guest Editor: @jmjafrx)
Jessica Marie Johnson writes: If you haven’t submitted your abstract for Slavery in the Machine, a special section of sx archipelagos, there is still time! Submit today. sx archipelagos is now...
View ArticleEVENT: March 29th – Arondekar, Johnson, and Seijas on Decolonizing History
Jessica Marie Johnson, Anjali Arondekar and Tatiana Seijas to discuss decolonizing history this Thursday: For slavery studies, engagements with the geopolitical have robustly shifted the angles through...
View ArticleVIDEO: Charity Folks (Making History Trailer)
Making History launches with a profile on Charity Folks: “Making History is a groundbreaking platform dedicated to the discovery and remembrance of women’s stories globally. This project is being...
View ArticleNEWS: How a Small Seminar Course Engaged Readers Everywhere – The Chronicle...
The Chronicle’s teaching newsletter covers the Black Womanhood course taught by Drs. Jessica Marie Johnson and Martha Jones at Johns Hopkins University....
View ArticleNEWS/VIDEO: Williams and Berry Launch Making History
New video project, led by Adriane Hopper Williams and Daina Ramey Berry, brings Black women’s history to life: “Making History is a documentary film project that uncovers the untold stories of African...
View ArticleBerry: Harriet Tubman isn’t the first black woman to appear on currency in...
Daina Ramey Berry writes: “As a scholar of American slavery and someone who’s published books and taught courses on black women in America for nearly twenty years, I can’t separate my feelings about...
View ArticleRothman Speaks About Georgetown University’s History With Slavery | The...
With Georgetown University’s history of slavery in the news, Adam Rothman discussed the sources and facts of that history earlier this week: “Rothman, an associate professor of history at Georgetown,...
View ArticleShepherd Interview on the Morant Bay Rebellion in The Voice
Verene Shepherd, professor of social history at the University of the West Indies, reflects on the 150th anniversary of Morant Bay and the execution of Paul Bogle… What was, in your view, the main...
View ArticleDIGITAL/NEWS: Slave Trade Database to Expand, Update Website | The Emory Wheel
The Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade Database, an online database providing information about slaves and slave trading voyages, will soon expand to include information about intra-American slave trade as...
View ArticleBerry and Morgan: #Blacklivesmatter Till They Don’t: Slavery’s Lasting Legacy
“We live in a nation that has yet to grapple with the history of slavery and its afterlife.” – Daina Ramey Berry and Jennifer L. Morgan In an essay for The American Prospect, slavery scholars Daina...
View ArticleInterview: The Colonial Art of Demonizing Others | The UCSB Current
H/T – The Repeating Islands – Andrea Estrada interviews Esther Lezra on her new book The Colonial Art of Demonizing Others (Routledge, 2014): “It was important to show that the representational...
View ArticleThe Economist Considers Slavery and the Response is Immediate (A Round Up)
On Sept 4, 2014, the Economist reviewed Edward Baptist’s The Half Has Never Been Told: “So Mr Baptist, an historian at Cornell University, is not being especially contentious when he says that America...
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