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Erica Armstrong Dunbar

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A Praise House of Many Mansions

In a book and documentary series, Henry Louis Gates Jr. offers a wide-ranging tour of Black religion in America.

by Erica Armstrong Dunbar via New York Review of Books on April 29, 2021
Talk of Souls in Slavery Studies

The co-winners of the 2018 Frederick Douglass Book Prize on researching slavery.

by Erica Armstrong Dunbar, Tiya Miles, Jim Knable via Medium on February 26, 2019
Fresh Takes on the Declaration of Independence

A new look at the Declaration of Independence from 24 scholars across the country.

by Robert Allison, Seth Cotlar, Manuel Covo, Alejandra Dubcovsky, Erica Armstrong Dunbar, Maya Jasanoff, Robert G. Parkinson, Carla Gardina Pestana, Andrew Schocket, Alexander Tsesis, Zara Anishanslin, Kathleen DuVal, Caitlin Fitz, Annette Gordon-Reed, Tiya Miles, Johann N. Neem, Peter S. Onuf, Steven Pincus, Jack Rakove, Gautham Rao, Claudio Saunt, Karin Wulf, Nicole Eustace, Sarah Georgini via Declaration Resources Project on June 1, 2017

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"The Washington Family," painting by Edward Savage, c. 1789–1796. (National Gallery of Art)

The Silence of Slavery in Revolutionary War Art

Artists captured and honored the intensity of the American Revolution, but the bravery and role of Black men in the war was not portrayed.

by Edna Gabler via Journal of the American Revolution on July 13, 2021

African American mother and children in peach vignette, c. 1885.

A Mother’s Influence

How African American women represented Black motherhood in the early nineteenth century.

by Crystal Webster via Lapham’s Quarterly on June 9, 2021

Washington is Named for a President who Owned Slaves. Should It Be?

What's behind the name of the state? And who was our first president, really?

by Ron Judd via The Seattle Times on October 11, 2020

George Washington on the cover of Alexis Coe's "You Never Forget Your First."

A New Book About George Washington Breaks All the Rules on How to Write About George Washington

A cheeky biography of the first president pulls no punches.

by Alexis Coe, Karin Wulf via Smithsonian on February 4, 2020

This Long-Ignored Document by George Washington Lays Bare the Legal Power of Genealogy

In Washington’s Virginia, family was a crucial determinant of social and economic status, and freedom.

by Karin Wulf via Smithsonian on June 18, 2019

Illustration of Ken Burns

The Unbearable Whiteness of Ken Burns

The filmmaker’s new documentary on Benjamin Franklin tells an old and misleading story.

by Timothy Messer-Kruse via The Chronicle of Higher Education on April 20, 2022

Scene from from 'The Gilded Age' in which a wealthy white woman and an African American woman walk in the street, with a stagecoach behind them.

The True History Behind HBO's 'The Gilded Age'

Julian Fellowes' new series dramatizes the late 19th-century clash between New York City's old and new monied elite.

by Kimberly A. Hamlin via Smithsonian on January 20, 2022

Portrait of George Washington bathed in light while his enslaved personal servant, William Lee, is behind him in the shadows.

George and Martha Washington Enslaved 300 People. Let’s Start With Their Names

The man who supposedly never told a lie figured out how to stretch the truth when it came to human bondage.

by Michele Norris via Washington Post on June 26, 2020

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