Book Review - AAIHS

Fugitive Slaves and the Quest for Freedom

January 24, 2019January 29, 2019 Jessica Parr fugitivity, law, Resistance, slavery

The Fugitive Slave Act of 1850 intended to resolve whether free states had a legal obligation to return fugitive enslaved

Race and Service in the Pacific During World War II

January 16, 2019January 29, 2019 Karen Cook Bell Activism, book review, military, Pacific War

Historian John Dower has noted that “apart from the genocide of the Jews, racism remains one of the great neglected

Black Pioneers and the Struggle for Equality on the Frontier

January 11, 2019January 29, 2019 Jacob Jurss American West, landownership, Resistance

At the turn of the 20th century historian Frederick Jackson Turner argued, “[t]he frontier is the line of most rapid

The Rhetoric and Methods of the 1963 Mississippi Freedom Vote

December 14, 2018December 24, 2018 Denise Lynn Mississippi, racism, Resistance, South, voting, white supremacy

After attempting to register Black voters, pushing school integration, and challenging segregation in transportation throughout the 1950s, activists in Mississippi

Black Creativity and Imagination at the End of the World

December 11, 2018December 24, 2018 J. T. Roane literature, poetry

Octavia Butler’s Parable of the Sower and Edwidge Danticat’s The Farming of Bones are set in starkly different times and