African American History survey - AAIHS

Bringing Archives of Death and Life into the Classroom

This fall I am teaching African American History Since 1863, starting with the event of Emancipation as a legal-juridical happening

On July 11, 2017, a video circulated throughout social media depicting the San Diego police deploying a canine against an

The 1830s was the high-tide of Jacksonianism, an era many historians consider the nadir of early American history. Although universal

Historians generally frame their writing and research around the notion of change over time, assuming that time moves forward. But

On the morning of December 11, 2016, a notice in the Chicago area news read as follows: “Author Lerone Bennett