The JAH African American History Index A Word Cloud
In honor of Black History Month, we at the Journal of American History have created…
Browsing: African American
Protest and Punishment in Rural North Carolina
Longtime inhabitants of Benson and those passing through could not miss the prominent billboard at…
Reconstruction-Era Politics Shaped Historically Black Colleges and Universities
Last month, Governor John Bel Edwards proposed a potential $1 billion cut to Louisiana’s higher…
“Have We a New Sex Problem Here?” Black Queer Women in the Early Great Migration
In November of 1920, the black newspaper The Chicago Whip ran a front-page article with…
Plant and Clarke: Federal Segregation and Gold Star Mothers
Frances Clarke is a senior lecturer at the University of Sydney in Australia. In 2011,…
Reparation as Fantasy Remembering the Black-Fisted Silent Protest at the 1968 Mexico City Olympic Games
On October 17, 2005, San Jose State University unveiled a twenty-foot fiberglass statue of Tommie…
The Racial Wealth Gap and the Problem of Historical Narration
From articles in the liberal press to histories of the “Frontiers of Wealth” during “America’s…
Black Rage at the Organization of American Historians
[This post also appeared at Black Perspectives] The theme of this year’s Organization of American Historians…
On Afrocentric History in American Education
Donald Trump was vaguely familiar enough with black history to identify Frederick Douglass, Harriet Tubman,…
Humanistic Visions: The Long History of Black History Month
The establishment of Negro History Week in 1926 was a natural outgrowth of more than…