Tag: History News Network

  • The History of Race in America Is Not Black and White History News Network 2015-11-21 Dianne Guenin-Lelle Dr. Dianne Guenin-Lelle teaches French at Albion College. A specialist in Seventeenth Century French Narrative, Francophone Louisiana and Multicultural Pedagogies, she has published numerous articles and two books, Jeanne Guyon, Selected Writings in the Classics in Western Spirituality…

  • Do You Have a Cherokee in Your Family Tree? History News Network George Mason University 2015-10-18 Gregory D. Smithers, Associate Professor of History Virginia Commonwealth University Gregory D. Smithers is an Associate Professor of History at Virginia Commonwealth University and the author of The Cherokee Diaspora: An Indigenous History of Migration, Resettlement, and Identity (Yale…

  • Barack Obama’s “Slave” Ancestor and the Politics of Genealogy George Mason University’s History News Network 2012-08-02 Honor Sachs, Assistant Professor of History Western Carolina University, Cullowhee, North Carolina On July 30, the New York Times broke a story about the Obama family’s ties to slavery. Not Michelle Obama. Her family connection to slavery has been…

  • Review of Elizabeth M. Smith-Pryor’s Property Rites: The Rhinelander Trial, Passing, and the Protection of Whiteness (University of North Carolina Press, 2009) History News Network December 2009 Renee Romano, Associate Professor of History Oberlin College “Property Rites: The Rhinelander Trial, Passing, and the Protection of Whiteness” (University of North Carolina Press, 2009) On a fall…