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Rethinking Rufus book cover

The Rape of Rufus? Sexual Violence Against Enslaved Men

"Rethinking Rufus" argues that enslaved black men were sexually violated by both white men and white women.

by Thomas A. Foster via NOTCHES on October 27, 2020

Black women, oil painting

Rebellious History

Saidiya Hartman’s "Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments" is a strike against the archives’ silence regarding the lives of Black women in the shadow of slavery.

by Annette Gordon-Reed via New York Review of Books on October 1, 2020

A stone marked as a slave auction block and tagged with graffiti.

What PTSD Tells Us About the History of Slavery

June, PTSD Awareness month, is a time to recognize how trauma has shaped our history.

by Tyler D. Parry via Made By History on June 28, 2020

The Revolutions

Ed Ayers visits public historians in Boston and Philadelphia and explores what “freedom” meant to those outside the halls of power in the Revolutionary era.

via Future Of America's Past on March 16, 2020

Eugenic Sperm

A "test tube baby" grapples with the dark corners of 20th century reproductive technologies.

by Karen Weingarten via Nursing Clio on February 24, 2020

6 Myths About the History of Black People in America

Six historians weigh in on the biggest misconceptions about black history, including the Tuskegee experiment and enslaved people’s finances.

by Jessica Machado, Karen Turner via Vox on February 18, 2020

Inventing Freedom

Using manumission to disentangle blackness and enslavement in Cuba, Louisiana, and Virginia.

by Alejandro de la Fuente, Ariela Gross via Lapham’s Quarterly on January 21, 2020

Open field by a highway.

The Departed and Dismissed of Richmond

Richmond has a long-forgotten graveyard that is the resting place for hundreds of slaves. Will a new railway be built over it?

by Samantha Willis via Scalawag on August 5, 2019

African men in slave pens in Washington D.C. circa 1849-1850.

How Ancestry.com Has Failed African American Customers

The genealogy site fails to understand the fundamental differences between white and black history.

by Kristen Green via Made By History on May 31, 2019

The (Historical) Body in Pain

How can we understand the physical pain of others?

by Cassia Roth via Nursing Clio on April 9, 2019

Equal-Opportunity Evil

A new book shows that for female slaveholders, the business of human exploitation was just as profitable as it was for men.

by Rebecca Onion via Slate on February 14, 2019

Fried Chicken Is Common Ground

If you like hot chicken, perhaps you’d be interested in knowing where it comes from.

by Osayi Endolyn via Eater on October 3, 2018

When Slavery Is Erased From Plantations

Some historical sites have struggled to reconcile founding-era exceptionalism with the true story of America’s original sin.

by Talitha L. LeFlouria via The Atlantic on September 2, 2018

How Our Grandmothers Disappeared Into History

A historian turned novelist ponders the absence of women from America's historical archives.

by Katy Simpson Smith via Zócalo Public Square on June 8, 2018

Lonesome for Our Home

Zora Neale Hurston’s long-lost oral history with one of the last survivors of the Atlantic slave trade.

by Elias Rodriques via The Nation on May 23, 2018

Drawing of a black man holding a shovel (out of frame).

Arlington Is More Than a Cemetery

Arlington House’s transformations mirror our own.

by Jackie Roche via The Nib on January 22, 2018

Enslaved people being marched from Virginia to Tennessee.

Retracing Slavery's Trail of Tears

America's forgotten migration – the journeys of a million African-Americans from the tobacco South to the cotton South

by Edward Ball via Smithsonian on November 1, 2015

Bringing Rapes to Court

How sexual assault victims in colonial America navigated a legal system that was enormously stacked against them.

by Sharon Block via Commonplace on April 1, 2003

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