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:...
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...
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...
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?
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 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...