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by Editorial Board December 6, 2019 1

November 2019

White Supremacy in the Academy: The 1913 Meeting of the American Historical Association

The men of the Dunning School might not advise theses any more, and the historical interpretations these men crafted might now be largely discredited and discarded. But their legacies remain.

by Editorial Board December 27, 2018 0

December 2018

Making Material Memories: Transformative Moments in W. E. B. Du Bois’s Archive

The more answers about Negro History Week I found in Du Bois’s papers and collections associated with his life and times, the more questions surfaced. These inquiries have pushed my research on Du Bois and Negro History Week into broader considerations of the mixed methodology he used in the production of black history, and the black radical internationalist framework of his historical imagination.

by Nathan Wuertenberg August 11, 2017 4

August 2017 Marginalized Voices

The Blind Historian, and Other Fables

I wouldn’t be a historian if it weren’t for my disability. At the age of 12 I was diagnosed with a degenerative condition known as retinitis pigmentosa, and I may, at some unknown date in the future, be totally blind.