Karen Cook Bell

The Cambridge History of Black Women in the United States

April 10, 2024April 10, 2024 Karen Cook Bell

General Editor: Karen Cook Bell, Ph.D Volume Editors: Drs. Catherine Adams, Felicia Thomas, Nikki Taylor, Crystal Webster, Crystal Feimster, Hilary

Mary McLeod Bethune, the Pan-Africanist: An Interview with Ashley Robertson Preston

September 21, 2023August 20, 2023 Karen Cook Bell African Diaspora, Black women

This is an interview with Black Perspectives blogger Karen Cook Bell, Professor of History and the Wilson H. Elkins Endowed Professor

Robert Smalls and Reconstruction Politics

September 6, 2023August 22, 2023 Karen Cook Bell Civil War, education, Leadership, Politics, reconstruction, Robert Smalls

Reconstruction politics shares a political lineage with the 1960s Civil Rights Movement. Both periods sought to fulfill the nation’s mandate

Black Resistance and Slave Politics in Lowcountry Georgia

May 23, 2023May 19, 2023 Karen Cook Bell race, slavery

Within Lowcountry Georgia, enslaved Africans expressed a determined political will to resist enslavement and maintain dignity. Their dislocation reinforced

On War and U.S. Slavery: Enslaved Black Women’s Experiences

November 7, 2022October 29, 2022 Karen Cook Bell Black women, Gender, slavery

The experiences of enslaved women and girls in the wars of the United States has garnered increased scholarly attention, most

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