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Tera W. Hunter

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If “Woke” Dies, Our Nation’s Truths Die with It

Ron DeSantis wants to retrofit history to conform to conservative ideology.

by Tera W. Hunter via Hammer & Hope on August 30, 2023
The Long History of Conservative Indoctrination in Florida Schools

The top educational priorities in the Sunshine State were apparently reading, writing, and anti-communism.

by Tera W. Hunter via The Nation on February 27, 2023
Juneteenth And National New Beginnings

The holiday is a reminder of the Civil War's larger meaning, the unfulfilled promise of Reconstruction, and the reinforcement of democratic values.

by Tera W. Hunter via Essence on June 19, 2020
'Until Death or Distance Do You Part'

African American marriages before and after the Civil War.

by Alexis Coe, Tera W. Hunter via Lenny Letter on February 13, 2018

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Slave and Free Black Marriage in the Nineteenth Century

During and after slavery, some whites considered legal marriage too sacred an institution to be offered to black Americans.

by Vanessa M. Holden via Black Perspectives on September 19, 2018

A Black female welder circa 1930s-1940s.

A Sweeping History of the Black Working Class

By focusing on the Black working class and its long history, Blair LM Kelley’s book, "Black Folk," helps tell the larger story of American democracy.

by Robert Greene II via The Nation on June 12, 2024

The Country That Could Not Mourn

The Covid-19 pandemic has shown just how hard it is for Americans to grieve.

by Sarah Jaffe via The New Republic on September 23, 2022

Painting of a couple kissing under a broomstick

Broomstick Weddings and the History of the Atlantic World

From Kentucky to Wales and all across the Atlantic, the enslaved and downtrodden got married – by leaping over a broom. Why?

by Tyler D. Parry via Aeon on December 14, 2020

Re-watching ‘The Civil War’ During the Breonna Taylor and George Floyd Protests

The landmark Ken Burns documentary hasn’t aged well. But it continues to shape American perceptions about the Confederacy and slavery.

by Gillian Brockell via Retropolis on September 26, 2020

Lithograph depicting police attacking African Americans in New Orleans, 1874

On Riots and Resistance

Exploring freedpeople’s struggle against police brutality during Reconstruction.

by Robert D. Bland via Muster on August 11, 2020

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