Historical Memory - AAIHS

Categorization for Commodification: Racial Control in Colonial America

There is difficulty in formalizing the lines of the African American category: who falls within its brackets and whose history

*This post is part of our online forum organized by Ahmad Greene-Hayes on HBO’s hit series Watchmen. In episode 2

If transatlantic slavery remains one of the foundational premises of a Black or African Diaspora, then the great ocean—the Atlantic—holds

We are living in a “memory boom” he says. From Charleston to New York, the national mall and university halls,

In They Stole Him Out of Jail: Willie Earle, South Carolina’s Last Lynching Victim, William B. Gravely, professor emeritus at