Category: History

  • Free African Americans of North Carolina, Virginia, and South Carolina from the Colonial Period to About 1820 (Fifth Edition) Genealogical Publishing Company 2005 2 volumes; 1355 pages Hardcover ISBN: 9780806352800 Paul Heinegg The third edition of Paul Heinegg’s Free African Americans of North Carolina and Virginia was awarded the American Society of Genealogists’ prestigious Donald…

  • Surprises in the Family Tree The New York Times 2004-01-08 Mitchell Owens John Archer first appears in Northampton County, Va., in the mid-17th century. He started a family that prospered, fought in the Revolutionary War and built a mansion. Generations later, Archer’s blood trickled down to me. It mingled in my veins with DNA from…

  • Celebrating Afro-Venezuelan Heritage Global Exchange Reality Tour Blog 2013-12-13 The following post is written by Reality Tours communications intern William Jones Jr as he explores Afro-Venezuelan identity historically and in its current context. Visit Venezuela on a Reality Tour to learn more about the struggles, contributions, and successes of Afro-Venezuelans. History and Legacy Under the…

  • Fathers, Farmers, Fighters Leaders: The Robbins Family at War (Civil War Roundtable of the Rock Creek Nature Center) U.S. Park Service Rock Creek Nature Center 5200 Glover Road, NW Washington, D.C. 2014-01-04, 09:30 EST (Local Time) Marvin Jones, Executive Director Chowan Discovery Group The Robbinses lived across racial lines and along the borders of slavery.…

  • Drawing from exhaustive research in the Netherlands, Europe and the Americas, Altena offers illuminating new insights into mixed-marriage families as they were depicted in the arts and in news media; and how the families themselves in turn reacted to, and influenced those images. The author focuses on well-documented individuals and shows how they gained a…

  • Chinese in Latin America H-Soz-u-Kult Außereuropäische Geschichte 2013-12-13 Dorothea A. L. Martin, Professor of History Appalachian State University, Boone, North Carolina Delgado, Grace: Making the Chinese Mexican. Global Migration, Localism, and Exclusion in the U.S.-Mexico Borderlands. Stanford: Stanford University Press 2012. ISBN 978-0-8047-7814-5; 304 S.; € 49,93. Look Lai, Walton; Chee-Beng, Tan (Hrsg.): The Chinese…

  • The Chinese migration to the Latin America/Caribbean region is an understudied dimension of the Asian American experience.

  • Why this ‘mixed’ girl rejects the ‘mixed-race’ label.

  • Freedom’s Witness: The Civil War Correspondence of Henry McNeal Turner University of West Virginia Press March 2013 288 pages Hardcover (Jacketed) ISBN: 978-1-935978-60-2 Paperback ISBN: 978-1-935978-61-9 ePub ISBN: 978-1-935978-62-6 PDF ISBN: 978-1-935978-95-4 Foreword by: Aaron Sheehan-Dean, Fred C. Frey Professor of Southern Studies Louisiana State University Edited by: Jean Lee Cole, Associate Professor of English…

  • Becoming Mexipino: Multiethnic Identities and Communities in San Diego [Floyd Review] The Journal of San Diego History Volume 59, Number 4 (Fall 2013) pages 291-292 Carlton Floyd, Associate Professor of English University of San Diego Becoming Mexipino: Multiethnic Identities and Communities in San Diego. By Rudy P. Guevarra, Jr. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press,…