Roundtables - AAIHS

New Challenges, New Ideas, and Black Reformers of Pittsburgh

February 7, 2023February 4, 2023 Brandon James Render #AAIHSRoundtable, #CanaanDim, Activism, black intellectual history

This post is part of our online roundtable on Adam Lee Cilli’s Canaan, Dim and Far. In a recent Twitter

Striving Toward Freedom and Black Pittsburgh

February 6, 2023February 4, 2023 Hettie Williams #AAIHSRoundtable, #CanaanDim, Activism

This post is part of our online roundtable on Adam Lee Cilli’s Canaan, Dim and Far. Canaan, Dim and Far:

Online Roundtable-Adam Lee Cilli’s ‘Canaan, Dim and Far’

February 3, 2023February 3, 2023 AAIHS Editors #CanaanDim, #Roundtable, book review, citizenship, Pittsburgh

February 6–10, 2023 Black Perspectives, the award-winning blog of the African American Intellectual History Society (AAIHS), is hosting a roundtable on Adam Lee Cilli’s Canaan,

‘Welcome to East Austin’: Black Power and the American Dream

January 23, 2023January 21, 2023 Brandon James Render #AAIHSRoundtable, #BlackIntellectualDemocracy, black intellectual history

This post is part of our forum on Black Intellectuals and the Crisis of Democracy. In 1971, the Community United Front,

John Hope Franklin and WWII as a Crisis of Democracy

January 19, 2023January 13, 2023 Thomas Cryer #BlackIntellectualDemocracy, black intellectuals, Historians, John Hope Franklin, World War II

This post is part of our forum on Black Intellectuals and the Crisis of Democracy. Since its 1947 publication, extensive literature