Category: History

  • A Citizen of Fine Spirit William Mitchell Magazine Volume 18, Issue 2, Fall 2000 pages 2-6 Douglas R. Heidenreich, Emeritus Professor of Law Mitchell Hamline School of Law, Saint Paul, Minnesota Minnesota Historical Society William T. Francis was (1869-1929), by most measures, the most successful of the early African American alumni of William Mitchell College…

  • Race and Medicine in America (AMST 256 – 01) Wesleyan University, Middletown, Connecticut Fall 2016 Megan H. Glick, Assistant Professor of American Studies This course will trace ideas of race in American medical science and its cultural contexts, from the late 19th century to the present. We will explore how configurations of racial difference have…

  • MSU faculty contribute to book on white privilege Mississippi State University 2016-07-01 Contact: Allison Matthews STARKVILLE, Miss.—Two Mississippi State faculty members helped lead a literary effort examining the basis and scope of racial identity as an American social structure. Stephen Middleton, professor of history and director for African American Studies at MSU, along with associate…

  • The Common Cause: Creating Race and Nation in the American Revolution University of North Carolina Press June 2016 Approx. 640 pages 21 halftones, 1 figs., 7 maps, 33 tables, notes, index 6.125 x 9.25 Cloth ISBN: 978-1-4696-2663-5 Published for the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture, Williamsburg, Virginia Robert G. Parkinson, Assistant Professor…

  • La Esclava Blanca: The New Telenovela Rewriting Colombia’s History of Slavery AAIHS: African American Intellectual History Society 2016-07-06 Yesenia Barragan Columbia University, New York, New York This is a guest post by Yesenia Barragan, a historian of race, slavery, and emancipation in Colombia, Afro-Latin America, and the Atlantic/Pacific worlds. She recently received her Ph.D. in…

  • The Pain of Passing Reviews in American History Volume 44, Number 2, June 2016 pages 264-269 DOI: 10.1353/rah.2016.0028 Renee Romano, Professor of History, Africana Studies, and Comparative American Studies Oberlin College, Oberlin, Ohio Allyson Hobbs. A Chosen Exile: A History of Racial Passing in American Life. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2014. 382 pp. Figures,…

  • Drawing Black History Bostonia Fall 2015 Rich Barlow, Staff Writer Artwork by Joel Christian Gill Graphic novels bring forgotten stories to life Home to about 50 mixed-race descendants of a freed slave, Malaga Island off the coast of Maine seemed an oasis of racial harmony in 1912. But then the state, lobbied by ostensible “reformers”…

  • Strange Fruit: Uncelebrated Narratives from Black History Fulcrum Publishing May 2014 176 pages 8 X 10 Paperback ISBN: 9781938486296 Joel Christian Gill Strange Fruit Volume I is a collection of stories from early African American history that represent the oddity of success in the face of great adversity. Each of the nine illustrated chapters chronicles…

  • Becoming Black, White, and Indian in Wisconsin Farm Country, 1850s–1910s Middle West Review Volume 2, Number 2, Spring 2016 pages 53-84 DOI: 10.1353/mwr.2016.0009 Jennifer Kirsten Stinson, Associate Professor of History Saginaw Valley State University, University Center, Michigan Fig 1. Location of the Revels kindred community in Forest Township, Vernon County, Wisconsin. Map courtesy of the…

  • Calidad, Genealogy, and Disputed Free-colored Tributary Status in New Spain The Americas Volume 73, Number 2, April 2016 pages 139-170 Norah Andrews, Assistant Professor of World History Georgian Court University, Lakewood, New Jersey In 1787, a group of Indians from the town of Almoloya, part of Apan in the Intendancy of Mexico, aired their grievances…