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HBCU’s Radical Vision for Black Education and Citizenship
HBCU’s Radical Vision for Black Education and Citizenship
Deondra Rose’s The Power of Black Excellence is a powerful and revealing history of Historically Black Colleges and Universities which have…
Oxford Academic
Aug 15
America’s Embrace of the Ten Commandments
America’s Embrace of the Ten Commandments
The Ten Commandments are back in the news. Nearly twenty years ago, they made headlines and are doing so again now. In 2005, two cases…
Oxford Academic
Jul 4
Harriet Tubman and the Second South Carolina Volunteers Bring Freedom to the Combahee River
Harriet Tubman and the Second South Carolina Volunteers Bring Freedom to the Combahee River
In this excerpt from the groundbreaking, COMBEE, Edda Fields-Black tells the dramatic story of how Harriet Tubman led the 150 African…
Oxford Academic
Jun 19
The Dinner and the Dean
The Dinner and the Dean
In March 1924–100 years ago this year — Charles S. Johnson approached Alain Locke about hosting a dinner party bringing together young…
Oxford Academic
Apr 5
Extract from Continual Raving by Janet R. Gilsdorf
Extract from Continual Raving by Janet R. Gilsdorf
Continual Raving: A History of Meningitis and the People Who Conquered It tells the gripping story of how meningitis was defeated.
Oxford Academic
Nov 22, 2019
Challenging gender roles in Han dynasty China
Challenging gender roles in Han dynasty China
Explore gender roles during the Han Dynasty, and how contributions of women to family life challenged Confucian ideas of male superiority.
Oxford Academic
Mar 15, 2021
Was Israel created because of the Holocaust?
Was Israel created because of the Holocaust?
The chronological proximity of the Holocaust and Israel’s establishment has led many people to assume that the two events are connected.
Oxford Academic
May 18, 2019
A History of Impersonal Violence
A History of Impersonal Violence
At the heart of T. K. Wilson’s new book Killing Strangers lies a simple ambition — to explore how political violence has changed over time.
Oxford Academic
Dec 3, 2020
You’ll always be wishy-washy, Charlie Brown!
You’ll always be wishy-washy, Charlie Brown!
It has been argued that Peanuts was so beloved because it was apolitical. In this excerpt, Blake Scott Ball asks: was it, really?
Oxford Academic
Jun 1, 2021
A lone Chinese woman in 19th century America
A lone Chinese woman in 19th century America
Afong Moy was the first known Chinese woman in America and became well-known across the country due to her inclusion in P.T. Barnum’s…
Oxford Academic
Aug 8, 2019
The Controversy Behind the First Artificial Heart Transplant
The Controversy Behind the First Artificial Heart Transplant
Learn about the unethical circumstances that surrounded the first total artificial heart transplant.
Oxford Academic
Nov 20, 2020
George Washington’s philosophy
George Washington’s philosophy
David Hackett Fischer on what Washington learned among the ruling families of the Northern Neck, of moral striving through virtuous action…
Oxford Academic
Jun 30, 2015
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