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Online Forum–Black Civil War and Public Memory

April 21, 2023April 20, 2023 AAIHS Editors Black Civil War, Black Family, Civil War, Memory, military

April 24, 2022 to April 28, 2023 Black Perspectives, the award-winning blog of the African American Intellectual History Society (AAIHS), is hosting

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Black Women and the Racialization of Infanticide

March 2, 2023March 1, 2023 Rebekka Michaelsen Black women, Infanticide, Margaret Garner, Pregnancy, Reproductive Rights, Women

“Knowledge of the human body constituted a form of property as important – or even more important than – the

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“The Families’ Civil War”: An Author’s Response

January 13, 2023January 9, 2023 Holly A. Pinheiro Jr. #FamiliesCivilWar, #Roundtable, Author Response, Black Family, Civil War

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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Black Widows and the Struggle for Pensions after the Civil War

January 12, 2023January 6, 2023 Hilary Green #FamiliesCivilWar, #Roundtable, Black Family, Civil War, Pensions, Women

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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Military Service and Black Families During the Civil War

January 11, 2023January 6, 2023 Barbara A. Gannon #FamiliesCivilWar, #Roundtable, antebellum, Black Family, Civil War

This post is part of our online roundtable on Holly A. Pinheiro Jr.’s The Families’ Civil War. Somewhere in America today,

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