“Yet Lives and Fights”: Riots, Resistance, and Reconstruction
How civil war in the South began again—indeed had never ceased; and how black Prometheus bound to the Rock of
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Civil War
Why are Trump Supporters Trying to Spark another Civil War?
As outrageous new events on the campaign trail assault us every day, it is becoming easy to accept the absurdities
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Black Women, Slavery, and Silences of the Past
Power does not enter the story once and for all, but at different times and from different angles. It precedes
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This Vast Southern Empire: A New Book on Slaveholders and U.S. Foreign Policy
This post is part of a new and recurring blog series I am editing, which announces the release of selected new
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What would a memorial to slavery look like? What story would it tell? What function would we want it to
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