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Queries and Discussions
Call for Panelists: ASALH Conference, September 29-October 1, 2022, Montgomery, Alabama -- Progressive Era Medical Advice Literature
I seek to organize a panel for the 107th Annual Meeting and Conference of the Association for the Study of African American Life and History (ASALH). The conference theme is "Black Health and Wellness" and the panel title is "Progressive Era Medical Advice Literature." My paper will treat an 1898 advice manual, Hints on the Care of Children, authored by Lucy E. Hubert, wife of African Methodist Episcopal minister, the Rev. Ellwood G. Hubert.
ToC for Early American Studies
Hello,
Following is the table of contents for the latest issue of Early American Studies.
Published by the University of Pennsylvania Press.
Volume 19.3 Summer 2021
eas.pennpress.org
ARTICLES
Making a Massacre: The 1622 Virginia "massacre," Violence, and the Virginia Company of London's Corporate Speech
Nicholas K. Mohlmann
Call for Panelists: 2021 ASALH Rosenwald Schools
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.
Enslaved Women, Work, and America's Domestic Slave Trade: A Conversation with Alexandra Finley, Thurs. Dec. 3 @ 4:00 pm ET
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.
1960s Reader?
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
Re: Landscape Reparations -- A developing concept
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.
Re: Landscape Reparations -- A developing concept
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
#SuffrageSyllabus Launch
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!
African-American Maritime History
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!
Call for contributions to #SuffrageSyllabus
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
Re: Searching for 1920s Chicago Defender business records
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.
Re: Searching for 1920s Chicago Defender business records
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
Searching for 1920s Chicago Defender business records
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
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CFP's and Announcements
Black Lives Matter: Lessons from a Global Movement
Black Lives Matter: Lessons from a Global Movement
International Conference
( Zoom sessions:2 days-Virtual platform:6 days)
Thematic Approach
GIRES, the Global Institute for Research Education & Scholarship and the Greenwood African American Studies Center (GAASC) wish to explore the phenomenon of the Black Lives Matter (BLM) movement.
New Documentary, Civil War (or, Who Do We Think We Are) Now Availalbe for Preview
Outcast Films newest release, Civil War (or, Who Do We Think We Are) is now available for preview. If you are interetested in watching the film, please send us an email at info@outcast-films.com
Civil War (or, Who Do We Think We Are)
Directed by Rachel Boynton
Produced by Rachel Boynton and Erika Dilday
USA / 100 mins / 2021
CFP for Southern Cultures issue: Disability
Call for Papers
Southern Cultures: Disability
Mastering Oral History:A Concise Guide
Mastering Oral History:A Concise Guide
International Workshop
19 March 2022
CFP: 2022 Pennsylvania Historical Association Annual Meeting
Pennsylvania Historical Association - Call for Papers 2022
Violence and Non-Violence in American Society:Interpretations and Perspectives
Violence and Non-Violence in American Society:Interpretations and Perspectives
26-27 March 2022
International Conference
(Zoom sessions: 2 days/Virtual platform: 5 days)
Thematic Approach
GIRES, the Global Institute for Research Education & Scholarship and the Greenwood African American Studies Center (GAASC) explore the highly complex issue of racial violence in the United States.
"Learning with Charlottesville: Narratives of Religion, Race & Democracy" Summer Institute—Apply by: 3/15/22
The University of Virginia's Religion, Race & Democracy Lab and the Memory Project are seeking 20 emerging and mid-career scholars of religion from across the United States to collaborate with local scholars, artists, and journalists for a summer institute on public scholarship, called Learning with Charlottesville: Narratives of Religion, Race & Democracy.
Call for Participants: Anne Moody Workshop for Scholars
Call for Participants: Anne Moody Workshop for Scholars
Date: Tuesday, May 18, 2022 (Mode: Zoom)
Deadline for applications: March 1, 2022
Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition- 2022-2023 Fellowships
The Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition (GLC), part of the MacMillan Center for International and Area Studies at Yale University, invites applications for its 2022-2023 Fellowship Program. The Center seeks to promote a better understanding of all aspects of the institution of slavery from the earliest times to the present.
Medical Racism & Political Death: 3/29 Malgeri Seminar at MHS
Medical Racism and Political Death: the Case of Juliette Derricotte
Author: Chana Lee, Harvard University
Comment: Kate Clifford Larson, Brandeis University WSRC Scholar
Tuesday 29 March
5:15 PM
Black Life in Bellevue: Documenting African American Cultural Landscape Along the Chesapeake Bay - Field School Applications Invited
From July 5 to July 30, 2022, Washington College’s (Chestertown, MD) Center for Environment and Society and its Past is Present Initiative will partner with Bellevue Village, located on Maryland’s Eastern Shore in Talbot County, and the Bellevue Passage Museum, to conduct a field school aimed at using the venue’s cultural landscape to advance historical understanding and cultural conservation of an African American community whose aspirations and development were shaped by the Chesapeake estuarine environment.
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