Category: History

  • The remains of American-born singer and dancer Josephine Baker will be reinterred at the Pantheon monument in Paris, making the entertainer who is a World War II hero in France the first Black woman to get the country’s highest honor.

  • A Maryland researcher—and relative of Thomas Jefferson—is exploring their stories.

  • What if the creation story of anthropology isn’t exclusively about white men classifying people as primitive?

  • Darryl Barthé Jr.’s “Becoming American in Creole New Orleans” moves the history of New Orleans’ Creole community forward, documenting the process of “becoming American” through Creoles’ encounters with Anglo-American modernism.

  • Black Puritan, Black Republican: The Life and Thought of Lemuel Haynes, 1753-1833 Oxford University Press 2002-12-12 248 pages 9.04 x 6.84 x 0.9 inches Hardcover ISBN: 978-0195157178 DOI: 10.1093/0195157176.001.0001 John Saillant, Professor of English and History Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, Michigan In the second half of the eighteenth century, British and American men and women…

  • ‘The Vice President’s Black Wife’: New Book by IU History Professor Bloom Magazine Bloomington, Indiana 2021-04-28 Peter Dorfman Blue Spring Farm, where Julia lived. This is the last standing slave building on the property, likely used as a kitchen. Courtesy photo Dr. Amrita Chakrabarti Myers regards her work as an academic focused on slavery and…

  • Aaron’s Book The Devil’s Tale: Dispatches from the Davin M. Rubenstein Rare Book & Manuscript Library Duke University, Durham, North Carolina 2021-07-27 Blake Hill-Saya Above: Portrait in oils of Dr. Aaron McDuffie Moore painted by his daughter Lyda Moore Merrick. Located in the North Carolina Collection, Stanford L. Warren Branch of the Durham County Library,…

  • Pardo is the New Black: The Urban Origins of Argentina’s Myth of Black Disappearance Global Urban History 2016-12-19 Erika Edwards, Associate Professor of History University of North Carolina, Charlotte Bernardino Rivadavia, Argentina’s first president (1826-27) was nicknamed “Doctor Chocolate.” Painting by Mirta Toledo, 2013 It was a typical day, nothing out of the ordinary. I,…

  • In 1785, he was one of the first, if not the first, African-Americans to be ordained into the Congregational Church in the whole United States and led a mostly white congregation for over 30 years.

  • The First Black Pastor in American History