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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Race
Julia W. Garnet’s Civil War Activism
Throughout the American Civil War male proponents (Black and white) of mobilizing United States Colored Troops (USCT) regiments viewed military
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The Civil War and Natchez U.S. Colored Troops
By the end of the Civil War, nearly 200,000 Black men served as US soldiers and sailors. Of that number, more than 17,000
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The Morning After: Black Women and the March on Washington
The March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom stands apart as one of the most well-known events of the modern
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Billie Holiday and the Black Arts Movement
The Black Arts Movement (BAM) was a controversial, politically charged cultural uprising, which James Smethurst, in his eponymous study of
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