Book Review - AAIHS

The Defender and Chicago’s Built Environment

In A House for the Struggle: The Black Press and the Built Environment in Chicago, author E. James West explores the

Surviving Southampton: African American Women and Resistance in Nat Turner’s Community by Vanessa M. Holden, an associate professor of history,

In 1794, U.S. inventor Eli Whitney patented a new type of cotton gin that could remove seeds from short staple

Herman L. Bennett’s African Kings and Black Slaves: Sovereignty and Dispossession in the Early Modern Atlantic, is a prelude to an

As the twentieth century shrinks in the collective imagination of American popular culture, select iconographic images and sounds remain eternal.