Category: History

  • New recognition for first black U.S. doctor with medical degree American Medical News 2010-11-08 Kevin B. O’Reilly Dr. James McCune Smith’s descendants unveiled a new headstone in a ceremony to commemorate his achievements as a physician, essayist and abolitionist. The New York City burial site of the nation’s first black medical degree-holder received a new…

  • “Lines of the Nation” radically recasts the history of the Indian railways, which have long been regarded as vectors of modernity and economic prosperity. From the design of carriages to the architecture of stations, employment hierarchies, and the construction of employee housing, Laura Bear explores the new public spaces and social relationships created by the…

  • Public genealogies: Documents, bodies and nations in Anglo-Indian railway family histories Contributions to Indian Sociology Volume 35, Number 3 (October 2001) pages 355-388 DOI: 10.1177/006996670103500303 Laura Bear Department of Anthropology The London School of Economics This article argues for an approach to archives and documents that focusses on their material effects. It traces the impact…

  • Review: The United States of the United Races: A Utopian History of Racial Mixing The College Dropout: Book blog and occasional wisdom on paleo, making money, and life 2013-10-10 Charles Franklin The United States of the United Races: A Utopian History of Racial Mixing by Greg Carter My rating: 4 of 5 stars Pros: Historical…

  • What’s History Got to Do with It? Evolving Classifications of Race Brooklyn Historical Society Crossing Borders, Bridging Generations Othmer Library Saturday, 2014-01-25, 15:00-18:00 EST (Local Time) Part Three of the reading series Quantifying Bloodlines How did historical distinctions emerge, such as: mulatto, quadroon, octoroon, creole, 1/16th Native American…? What is the one-drop rule? Why do…

  • What’s Purity Got to Do with It? Searching Family History and Genealogy Brooklyn Historical Society Crossing Borders, Bridging Generations Othmer Library Saturday, 2013-12-07, 15:00-18:00 EST (Local Time) Part Two of the reading series Quantifying Bloodlines How do stories help us to understand the ways in which we dissect lineage? Bring in your own family tree,…

  • Black Seminoles and The Underground Railroad AC Bilbrew Library 150 E. El Segundo Blvd. Los Angeles, California 90061 310-538-3350 Saturday, 2013-11-23, 14:30 PST (Local Time) Phil Wilkes Fixico Celebrate Native American Heritage Month by exploring the history of free Blacks and fugitive slaves who escaped to Florida between the 1600s and 1800s, forging alliances with…

  • The Rise and Demise of the Gens De Couleur Libre Artists in Antebellum New Orleans University of Florida 2012 173 pages Karen Burt Coker A THESIS PRESENTED TO THE GRADUATE SCHOOL OF THE UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA IN PARTIAL FULFILLMENT OF THE REQUIREMENTS FOR THE DEGREE OF MASTER OF ARTS The gens de couleur libres of…

  • Bringing Black History Home CUNY Newswire The City University of New York 2011-04-15 Antoinette Martignoni, left, and her granddaughter Greta Blau hold a family Bible that contains the name of their ancestor, Dr. James McCune Smith, the nation’s first African American physician at Martignoni’s home in Fairfield, Conn., Thursday, Sept. 23, 2010. (AP Photo/Jessica Hill)…

  • Rheinland 2013 Mokoari Street Productions Berlin, Germany Written and directed by Lemohang J. Mosese Produced by Hannah Stockmann, Julius B. Franklin & Christian Wagner During the first World War the French government forced African men—many coming from Senegal or Cameroon —from their colonies to fight for the French army in the Rheinland. ​In 1919, there…