Exultations, Agonies, and Love: The Romantics and the Haitian Revolution
The impact of Haitian slaves’ successes fundamentally changed the ways in which imperial governments in Europe viewed enslaved Africans in their empires.
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The Handmaid’s Tale: America in the Age of Pence
The emphasis on the purity of women and an obsession with controlling sexual urges that creates ideas like the Billy Graham Rule are apparent in The Handmaid’s Tale, where the agency of the Handmaids has been stripped from them and their sanctioned sexual encounters are limited ritualized sessions in order to produce children.
American Inheritance: Exploring African American History and the Performance of Race through Material Culture
After the Civil War, African American men gained the right to vote and with the support of African American women, elected thousands of black men to public office in local, state and federal positions across the South.
Bring Back Our Jobs: Work, Machines, and Energy Infrastructure
Sometime in the late 1930s, Irene Robertson interviewed Mary Teel about her memory of slavery and her life since. Some of Robertson’s questions clearly made the formerly-enslaved Teel feel uncomfortable, like when she asked about the Klan, education, and voting. Nonetheless, Teel’s account of slavery and its aftermath repeated a theme common among her peers: years of hard work still left her “hard up.”
This Really Is Your America
From the announcement of his candidacy in 2015 to his victory on election night a year later, many (particularly white liberals) viewed Donald Trump’s ascent to the presidency with a sense of steadily growing disbelief.
The Activist History Review 