Jessica Marie Johnson - AAIHS

"The riot in New Orleans--murdering negroes in the rear of Mechanics' Institute ; Platform in Mechanics' Institute after the riot." 1866. The New York Public Library Digital Collections.

“Yet Lives and Fights”: Riots, Resistance, and Reconstruction

November 12, 2016November 12, 2016 Jessica Marie Johnson Fifteenth Amendment, reconstruction, W.E.B. Du Bois

How civil war in the South began again—indeed had never ceased; and how black Prometheus bound to the Rock of

Black Love Post-Death, Part II

September 12, 2016September 11, 2016 Jessica Marie Johnson black lives matter, Black Studies

Last year, right around this time, I wrote this for Focus: The Princeton Department of African and African American Studies Medium

Sex, Blood, and Belonging in the Early Republic

August 12, 2016August 11, 2016 Jessica Marie Johnson sexuality

The following remarks were delivered in June 2016 at the Society for Historians of the Early American Republic Annual Meeting.

Top Five in Bad Times (+ Bonus Track)

July 12, 2016July 12, 2016 Jessica Marie Johnson #BlackLivesMatter, digital media

This has been an especially difficult few weeks for those with any investment in social justice, black families and black

Thinking with Black Diasporic Intellectual Production

April 12, 2016April 12, 2016 Jessica Marie Johnson black intellectual history, black protest, Black women, Caribbean, slavery

On April 5, AAIHS blogger Chris Cameron described five approaches to African American Intellectual History. Cameron’s approaches included intellectual history