This month’s Around the Web update was prepared by HAS supporter Kay Firth-Butterfield. Thanks, Kay! The HAS call for papers, panels or workshops for the 2015 Conference, again at the National Underground Railroad Freedom Center in Cincinnati is out!...
Historian Zoe Trodd explores the sometimes troubling parallels between historical and contemporary antislavery imagery.
In today’s guest post, just in time for the fall semester, David N. Gellman shares a writing assignment he uses to help students think about connections and disconnects between abolitionism in the past and the present. If all the...
This month’s Around the Web was written by Paula Hunt, a doctoral candidate in journalism history at the University of Missouri. To find out how you can write an Around the Web post, please visit our call for volunteers....
If you’ve enjoyed our Around the Web blog posts, and would like to become more involved in Historians Against Slavery, this post is for you! HAS is seeking volunteers who are willing to help compile and write our monthly...
What do nineteenth-century abolitionist Parker Pillsbury and his twentieth-century biographer have in common? They both crossed the Atlantic on an antislavery mission. In this dispatch, cross-posted from her blog, HAS co-director Stacey Robertson reflects on our new efforts to...
Last month, the U.S. State Department released its newest Trafficking in Persons Report, which evaluates countries based on their record in complying with international anti-trafficking conventions. The Guardian released an interactive map to help visualize the report’s major findings,...
In this guest post, Dr. Gale Kenny of Barnard College, reviews In Pursuit of Freedom, a continuing exhibit at the Brooklyn Historical Society that will be open until Winter 2018. Have you seen the exhibit? Let us know what...
Historians Against Slavery would like to share this press release, submitted to us by Hilary Malson, with our supporters. For Immediate Release: June 18, 2014Contact: Hilary Malson202-829-0436 x31228 hmalson at savingplaces dot org Teenagers Fight Human Trafficking at Students...
In this guest post, Christopher Olsen, professor and chair in the history department at Indiana State University, shares his experiences with bringing contemporary slavery into the history classroom. Please share your own thoughts in the comments! Nearly twenty years...
Our latest round-up of online articles about slavery, past and present.
At the recent annual meeting of the Organization of American Historians in Atlanta, our Co-Director Randall Miller spoke with History News Network about the mission of HAS.
A belated Happy New Year to all of our supporters and volunteers! While woefully overdue, hopefully this first Around the Web bulletin of 2014 is still brimming with food for thought and inspiration for action. Major sporting events like...
This guest post from Ben Wright, a doctoral candidate in history at Rice University, reports on activities organized this past week by undergraduate members of the Rice Free Project in Houston. Student activists at Rice University are working to...
Historians Against Slavery co-director Stacey Robertson reflects on why Northup's story still resonates today, examining how enslavement continues to occur.
In a special guest post, historian Tiya Miles explores slavery as "confinement" in the past and the present and asks: What must we do to make our descendants proud of us?