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"Freedmen Voting in New Orleans," engraving, 1867. Photo: New York Public Library Digital Collections.

The Gift of Black Folk and the Emancipation of American History

June 19, 2017June 21, 2017 Westenley Alcenat black intellectual history, reconstruction, slavery, W.E.B. Du Bois

“Our song, our toil, our cheer, and warming have been given to this nation in blood-brotherhood. Are not these gifts

A Dual Emancipation: How Black Freedom Benefited Poor Whites

April 15, 2017April 18, 2017 Keri Leigh Merritt freedom, reconstruction, violence

Recently scholars have come to question “emancipation” as the proper terminology for describing the end of American slavery, preferring instead

Race, Belonging, and Unconditional White Amnesty

March 15, 2017March 18, 2017 Christopher F. Petrella Abraham Lincoln, Civil War, Donald Trump, Post-Civil War, reconstruction, white supremacy

At a raucous 2016 campaign rally in Phoenix, Arizona, then-candidate Donald Trump outlined his plan to curb “illegal immigration” and

"The riot in New Orleans--murdering negroes in the rear of Mechanics' Institute ; Platform in Mechanics' Institute after the riot." 1866. The New York Public Library Digital Collections.

“Yet Lives and Fights”: Riots, Resistance, and Reconstruction

November 12, 2016November 12, 2016 Jessica Marie Johnson Fifteenth Amendment, reconstruction, W.E.B. Du Bois

How civil war in the South began again—indeed had never ceased; and how black Prometheus bound to the Rock of

The Mundane and Extraordinary Aspects of Black Women’s History: An Interview with Kali Nicole Gross

September 20, 2016September 20, 2016 Ashley Farmer Black women, black women scholars, reconstruction

This month I interviewed Kali Nicole Gross about her new book, Hannah Mary Tabbs and the Disembodied Torso (Oxford University Press, 2016). Dr. Gross is