Streets and Archives: Slavery and the Spaces of Early New Orleans
In summer 2006, not quite one year after the levees broke, I began my study…
Author Rashauna Johnson
Knowing How vs. Knowing That: Navigating the Past
In response to my essay on originalism and history, I am glad that Georgetown Professor…
Exploring New Orleans History with Digital Tools
When the Organization of American Historians convenes in New Orleans this week, participants will no…
African American Educational Traditions and the Challenge of Desegregation
In the 1940s, Charles Houston and his team of NAACP attorneys took film cameras to…
School Vandalism and American Democracy
After a bitter presidential election, pitting an establishment candidate with unsavory ties to Wall Street…
How to Tripod
What happens when academic historians, museum professionals, and a radio producer try to tell a…
It’s a Different World: Black Student Activism From the Civil Rights Movement Through the Trump Era
The question caught me slightly off guard. On the evening of September 21, 2011, Troy…
The Arts in the Public Schools: An Intellectual History
Advocates for public schools have always needed to explain how they serve the public good,…
Setting Today’s Opioid Epidemic in Historical Context
We are living in a time of epidemic. Since the turn of the twenty-first century…
The Historical Origins of Today’s Healthcare Debates
Today’s mosealth care politics revolve around how to patch up a medical care system built…