Shannon King

“FRED. DOUGLASS has issued another address to the colored men, urging them to come forward and enlist. He says:

The case stands thus: We have asked the nation for a chance to fight the rebels — to fight […]

Harriet The Spy: How Tubman Helped the Union Army

“In 1863, Harriet Tubman led soldiers with Colonel James Montgomery to raid rice plantations along the Combahee River in South Carolina. They set fire to […]

“John Brown was a radical abolitionist who believed in the violent overthrow of the slavery system. During the Bleeding Kansas conflicts, Brown and his sons led attacks on pro-slavery residents. Justifying his […]

This is the report that Emma writes about from the NPR article. My colleague Hasan Kwame Jeffries, a historian of the civil rights movement, wrote the preface:

Teaching Hard History: American […]

The Drum Major Instinct by Simon Balto

“I recognize that my criticism of Dodge here is not an especially hot take. The ad was skewered on Twitter immediately after it aired, and the blowback has been the […]

Patrick D. Jones, Associate Professor of History and Ethnic Studies and author of The Selma of the North: Civil Rights Insurgency in Milwaukee (Harvard University press, 2009). Here are some comments from Prof. […]

Patrick D. Jones, Associate Professor of History and Ethnic Studies and author of The Selma of the North: Civil Rights Insurgency in Milwaukee (Harvard University press, 2009). Here are some comments from Prof. […]

Julie Hawks interviews historian Deidre Cooper Owens about her new book, Medical Bondage: Race, Gender, and the Origins of American Gynecology

In Medical Bondage, Cooper Owens examines a wide range of s […]

By Daina Ramey Berry

Beyond the Slave Trade, the Cadaver Trade
“The topic of slavery features prominently in each February’s reflections on African-American history. But when it comes to this darkest time in o […]

These discussion about the trans-Atlantic Slave trade and slavery persist, see “An African country reckons with its history of selling slaves”

“For over 200 years, powerful kings in what is now the country of […]

Martin Luther King Jr., “MLK_Jr._”Letter_from_a_Birmingham_Jail”:

In his famous, “Letter from a Birmingham Jail,” a response to white clergy men that asked King to slow down and described him, according […]

Louis Austin and the Carolina Times: A Life in the Long Black Freedom Struggle  by Jerry Gershenhorn

Louis Austin (1898–1971) came of age at the nadir of the Jim Crow era and became a transformative leader of […]

History of Black America is an introduction to African American history, covering periods from the Transatlantic Slave Trade to the present. The objective of the course is to assess watershed periods, such […]

This course examines the Black Freedom Movement (BFM), from the new deal to the mid-1970s. The goals of this course are to use Civil Rights writings and scholarship as a vehicle for students to think […]