How the Racial Wealth Gap Was Made
John Custis IV was in the upper crust of colonial Virginia. The planter and politician turned sixty in 1738, and
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AAIHS 2025 Conference–Registration is Now Open!
We are pleased to announce that registration is now open for our tenth annual conference! Please visit our conference website
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The Rejection of CRT in the Southern Baptist Convention
The May 1995 issue of Christianity Today, included the report of a leading African American voice in the Southern Baptist
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The Troubled History of Medical Harm to Black Women
In 1805, a Black woman known in the historical record as Pleasant, took a deep breath and pushed her son
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Enslaved Women’s Resistance to Slavery and Gendered Violence
In the past decade, scholars of Early America have produced a series of subaltern studies on enslaved women before the
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