Disney, “Pirates of the Caribbean,” and Human Trafficking By Michael Todd Landis On June 29, 2017, the Walt Disney Company announced on its Disney Parks Blog that dramatic changes were coming to the beloved (and inspiration for five blockbuster...
“Black Freedom Fighters on the Silver Screen” by Dr. Peter H. Wood, Emeritus Professor of History, Duke University A quarter century ago, teaching a Native American History class at Duke, I noted that enrollment spiked after the release of...
By David Gellman The film Selma contributes to many important conversations—about racially biased policing, about whether to think of the Civil Rights movement as a bottom up or top down triumph, about liberties movies take with historical records, about...
Historians Against Slavery co-director Stacey Robertson reflects on why Northup's story still resonates today, examining how enslavement continues to occur.
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...