“The Families’ Civil War”: An Author’s Response
This post is part of our online roundtable on Holly A. Pinheiro Jr.’s The Families’ Civil War. Even though the Civil
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Book Review
Black Widows and the Struggle for Pensions after the Civil War
This post is part of our online roundtable on Holly A. Pinheiro Jr.’s The Families’ Civil War. From enlistment to the
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Online Roundtable–Holly A. Pinheiro Jr.’s ‘The Families’ Civil War’
Black Perspectives, the award-winning blog of the African American Intellectual History Society (AAIHS), is hosting a roundtable on Holly A. Pinheiro Jr.’s The Families’
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Race, Religion, and The History Behind ‘Heathen’
Heathen: Religion and Race in American History, by Kathryn Gin Lum, argues that the label of “heathen” denotes a broad
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New England’s Unsung Black Liberation Movement
Zebulon Miletsky’s impressive book project, Before Busing: A History of Boston’s Long Black Freedom Struggle, weaves together 350 years of
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