In this guest post, Edward Rugemer, associate professor of African American Studies and History at Yale University, shares some of the methods he has used in the classroom to connect slavery then to slavery now. An earlier version of...
This post by HAS Board Member Robert E. Wright considers how teachers can use the movie 12 Years a Slave to help students think about modern-day slavery and our responsibilities to inform ourselves about it. Move over Kunta Kinte, Solomon...
Your "Around the Web" reporter has neglected his duties here for the last couple of weeks while visiting the Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance & Abolition at Yale University. There I had the privilege of...
This guest post was written by John Donoghue, Associate Professor of History at Loyola University Chicago and a longtime supporter of Historians Against Slavery. Professor Donoghue is the author of "Fire Under the Ashes:" An Atlantic History of the...
Read an essay by our founding Board Member James Brewer Stewart, which was recently featured on the website U.S. History Scene.
The release of 12 Years a Slave, Steve McQueen’s new film adaptation of the autobiography of Solomon Northup, has prompted a number of excellent reviews and discussions with historians. Check out the New York Times roundtable on the film,...
What do you think of when you think of our organization’s name: Historians Against Slavery? If you are not an historian, one natural reaction might be to wonder if there is such a thing as historians for slavery. Aren’t...
HAS board members Matthew Mason and Stacey Robertson recently shared the podium at the British American Nineteenth Century Historians (BrANCH) conference in Cambridge, United Kingdom. They presented research on transatlantic abolitionism with a focus on relevancy for today’s abolitionist,...
Our semi-regular survey of the Web features conferences on slavery and prison culture, a new book on the relationship between slavery and academe, a campaign against Harry Potter branded chocolate, and more.
Today’s guest post on The Junto, an outstanding group blog on early American history, was written by HAS supporter Nathan Jérémie-Brink. The post offers an overview of Jérémie-Brink’s experiences at our inaugural conference held last weekend. Here’s a brief...
See photographs and read tweets from our inaugural conference, "Crossing Boundaries, Making Connections: American Slavery and Antislavery, Now and Then," held September 19-21, 2013, in Cincinnati.
Our inaugural Historians Against Slavery is underway at the National Underground Railroad Freedom Center in Cincinnati, Ohio, and according to those live-tweeting the event, it’s been a great success so far! @HASlavery @lukeblocher What a great conference w/brilliant minds!...
Historians Against Slavery has many dedicated graduate student volunteers, some of whom will be live-tweeting this weekend's conference.
Anna Mae Duane, supporter of HAS and associate professor of English and American Studies at the University of Connecticut, has organized an interdisciplinary colloquium on child labor and slavery to be held October 18, 2013. Please check out the...
Last Friday, HAS co-director Stacey Robertson visited South Elgin High School outside of Chicago to speak to about 200 students on “(Anti)Slavery Now and Then.” Thanks to the teachers and students for the invitation and the great questions! And...
The HAS Blog will regularly feature links to recent items from around the web that connect the struggle against slavery in the past with the present. This week's post features writing by Brenda E. Stevenson and Dael Norwood.