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Jim Crow Philanthropy
What made the Rosenwald Fund’s efforts so effective was that it tapped into what historian James D. Anderson calls the strong “self-help tradition” in black southern communities and the high value that black southerners placed on education.
Reconstructing Approaches to America’s Indian Problem
The decline of Native American political autonomy was the result of increasing national authority that also changed the character of the American West.
The only thing new in the world is the history you do not know.
–Harry S. Truman
The Show Must Go On: Tera Hunter’s Primary Source Lesson Plan for Atlanta Washer Women Strike (1881)
Images of African-American domestic workers in history and popular culture often conjure up acquiescent and docile employees content with their occupational status. Domestics usually worked in solitude in private households, unlike their peers who worked in factories, shops, or offices. Scholars have often assumed that this isolation inhibited the growth of their working-class consciousness and… MORE
Juneteenth
June 19, or “Juneteenth,” honors the symbolic end to slavery in the United States, bringing new meaning to the American celebration of freedom and citizenship.
Photography and History
WARNING: Some of the images within this article may be disturbing for a younger audience. Photographing the Civil War Americans at War How did plantation owners and northern industrialists, yeoman farmers and slaves, and women and children experience the Civil War and the enormous social and political changes it wrought? Though the Civil War is the… MORE
Historically Accurate Halloween Costume Ideas
Halloween is big business for history. Just this morning I met Abraham Lincoln and Benjamin Franklin on BART in San Francisco as they headed home from celebrating in the Castro. Honest Abe, true to form, gave my outfit a tip-of-the-stovepipe-hat and a playful tug on his whiskers to prove they were real. I watched through… MORE
Segregated Summer Camps
In the aftermath of the Second World War, democratic rhetoric flourished, and many camps began to reach across the boundaries of class, gender, and religion drawn by the first Northeastern camps.
Back to the Future
On September 19, 2013 approximately 120 registrants gathered in Cincinnati’s National Underground Freedom Center for a conference sponsored by Historians Against Slavery (HAS). The event marked a radical departure from the usual academic gatherings to which historians have long been accustomed. Although organized by scholars of antebellum slavery and antislavery, the conference’s agenda spoke explicitly… MORE
The Show Must Go On: Felicia Angeja Viator on “To Live and Defy in LA: How Gangsta Rap Changed America” and “The Batterram”
KEY TERMS FOR THIS INTERVIEW LECTURE Follow along and take notes on the who, what, when, where, and historical significance for each major key term. The “Migrant City” The “Black Promised Land” W.E.B. DuBois The “color line” de facto segregation The Watts Rebellion (1965) The Black Panther Party Crack (or “rock”) cocaine 1984 Olympic Games… MORE