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Hello,
Following is the table of contents for the latest issue of Early American Studies.
Published by the University of Pennsylvania Press.
ARTICLES
Making a Massacre: The 1622 Virginia "massacre," Violence, and the Virginia Company of London's Corporate Speech
Nicholas K. Mohlmann
Hello all,
I am looking to create a panel, possibly in a roundtable format, discussing current or recent work on preserving the legacy of Rosenwald Schools at the 2021 Association for the Study of African American Life and History, which will be virtual this September.
Join the editors of the Journal of the Civil War Era for a book discussion with Dr. Alexandra Finley, author of An Intimate Economy: Enslaved Women, Work, and America's Domestic Slave Trade (UNC Press, 2020). Thurs. Dec. 3 @ 4 pm Eastern.
Historians! Any recommendations for a 1960s reader? Need something to supplement my own narrative history (The Long Sixties: America, 1955-1973, Wiley-Blackwell, 2017) and Brian Ward's The 1960s: A Documentary Reader in an upper-level undergrad seminar. Bloom, maybe? Chalmers' The Portable Sixties Reader is hardly portable at 670 pages. Is there an author/title that I'm missing? Thanks! --Chris Strain
I have your paper in my collection of papers and I found it to be very interesting. It turned out that one of the leaders of the opposition to changing a name here in Dallas was an immigrant from Poland and I told him about your paper. It didn't have an effect on his opposition. Sorry about the delay in reply.
Landscape reparations is definitely an interesting concept for the field of toponymy.
In the early 2000s, I wrote an article about the renaming of a street in Chicago from that of a white farmer/settler to a Polish-American hero. There was a big fight about it, one that lasted 19 years.
Although it is primarily narrative rather than theoretical, perhaps it would be helpful to you in some way:
“The Street Formerly Known as Crawford,” Chicago History (Spring 2001): 36-51.
Amanda
The Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America has launched the #SuffrageSyllabus, a collaborative teaching resource on the intersectional history of women and voting in the United States. The syllabus includes lesson plans, primary and secondary sources. https://long19.radcliffe.harvard.edu/teaching/suffrage-syllabus/ Many thanks to the members of H-Afro-Am who contributed ideas for the #SuffrageSyllabus!
I'm looking for a bibliography on African-American maritime history, ideally from colonization through the early 20th century. Any help on this would be greatly appreciated!
I am working with Radcliffe's Schlesinger Library to create an intersectional #suffragesyllabus on the gendered and racialized history of voting rights in the United States from the 1830s to the present. Highlighting the ideas
The Abbott-Sengstacke Papers at the Chicago Public Library include financial records, correspondence and other items that may include the information you are looking for. The finding aid (https://www.chipublib.org/fa-abbott-sengstacke-family-papers-2/) show a gap in the Defender's financial records from the late 1920s, however it is possible that the records are part of the estate dispute that started around the period you are interested in.
The Abbott-Sengstacke Family Papers are held by the Chicago Public Library. The collection is pretty extensive and holds personal & professional business records and correspondence.
Angela Tate
PhD student | Northwestern University
Dear colleagues,
Dear colleagues,
I am looking for business records for the Chicago Defender pertaining to funds collected in 1926/27 in support of plans to build a monument in Brazil. Can anyone point me in the right direction?
Thanks very much,
Kimberly Cleveland
Associate Professor of Art History
Welch School of Art & Design
Georgia State University
P.O. Box 4107
Atlanta, GA 30302
kcleveland@gsu.edu
Dear H-Afro-Am Network,
My article entitled, "Why Right-wing Commentators Distort the History of Slavery and Emancipation," was published in the Washington Post on December 6, 2019. It may be of interest to many in this group.
The link is here: https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/2019/12/06/why-right-wing-commentators-distort-history-slavery-emancipation/
Best Regards,
Tyler D. Parry
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AFRICAN AMERICAN HISTORY / STUDIES
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AFRICAN AMERICAN HISTORY / STUDIES
The Hagley Center for the History of Business Technology and Society at the Hagley Museum and Library in Wilmington Delaware is proud to announce its Oral History Project Grant. Grant awards can be up to $5,000.
“Greenwood” African American Studies Center (GAASC)
The “Greenwood” African American Studies Center (GAASC) is a trailblazing European institution, member of GIRES, the Global Institute for Research Education & Scholarship.
International Workshop
The conference, “Reach Out and Touch Someone: A Conference on Commercial Intimacy and Personalization will take place November 5, 2021 at the Hagley Museum and Library Soda House in Wilmington, Delaware. It also will be live via Zoom. Registration is required whether attending in person or by Zoom.
The Papers of Andrew Jackson project is pleased to announce that the first webinar of our 2021-2022 series is scheduled for Monday, October 25, 4-5pm (eastern). Dr. John Paul Nuño will give a presentation entitled: “Confessions of a Borderlands Confidence Man: Assessing William Augustus Bowles’s Legacy.” To preregister for this webinar, please visit: https://tiny.utk.edu/pajwebinar10252021.
“The Virus of Slavery and Injustice”: Analogy and Disabled Life in African American Writings, 1856-1892
Author: Vivian Delchamps, University of California, Los Angeles
Dear colleagues
From the editorial committee of Entremons: UPF Journal of World History, we invite you to send an original text, which we can publish in the next edition of our journal.
We are looking for academic articles, as well as reviews of recently published books, which address the ways in which gender intersects with world history.
Suggested themes:
The origin of gendered inequalities
Gender and the capitalist economies.
Masculinities and feminities
The Black Performing Arts Area of the Popular Culture Association/American Culture Association provides a scholarly forum to share and disseminate research pertaining to the Black performing arts across expressive forms. Broadly defined, the area focuses on all forms of performing and visual arts, including jazz, blues, gospel, hip hop, rhythm and blues, Caribbean music, dance, poetry, drawing, painting, sculpture, ceramics, photography, and acting. In all these contexts we are interested in investigating the merger of aesthetic technique and embodiment across Black diasp
Call for Papers
“Racial Justice and Policing in Texas”
Call for Papers
Southern Cultures: Moral Economies
There’s never been a better time to join or re-new your membership in the Southern Association for Women Historians (SAWH)—or to encourage colleagues and graduate students to join!
The Center for the History of Business, Technology, and Society, Hagley Museum and Library, Wilmington, Delaware is pleased to announce the recipients of grants and fellowships awarded mid-July 2021.
