CALL FOR APPLICATIONS Applications are invited for a postdoctoral research fellow to be based in the Department of American and Canadian Studies at the University of Nottingham. The successful applicant will join a collaborative academic project, funded by the...
This guest post was written by Dr. Scott Heerman, Patrick Henry Postdoctoral Fellow at Johns Hopkins University. He is also the recipient of the 2014-15 J. Franklin Jameson Fellowship from the American Historical Association for his project, “Deep River:...
Protests surrounding the Michael Brown and Eric Garner cases have continued to dominate the news headlines since our last update. Historians have weighed in with a number of essays connecting the nation’s slaveholding past to our present condition. Historian...
Historians Against Slavery co-director Stacey Robertson recently wrote a helpful post on antislavery organizing on campus on the End Slavery Now blog. Here’s an excerpt. One of the largest antislavery groups to emerge before the Civil War was one...
By Rachel Hooper At Historians Against Slavery, we are assembling a list of colleges and universities with abolitionist ties in order to better understand the effect abolitionism had on colleges in the nineteenth century. This post reflects on my...
The Center for Civil and Human Rights is organizing a conference exclusively for college students on human trafficking solutions. The conference will be held on November 15 and can be attended in person in Atlanta or "virtually" online. This...
by James Brewer Stewart American historians have, until recently, given fairly straightforward accounts of southern slavery, its abolition and its legacies. Two widely read classroom texts published in the 1960’s set the precedent. For believers in racial progress, John...
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...