In October 2010 we are publishing Hands on the Freedom Plow: Personal Accounts by Women in SNCC, in which fifty-two women—northern and southern, young and old, urban and rural, black, […]
Category: black studies
Spirit of Rebellion at OAH
Jarod Roll, author of the new book Spirit of Rebellion: Labor and Religion in the New Cotton South, attended this year’s annual meeting of the Organization of American Historians the […]
“Beauty Shop Politics” in The Chronicle
The April 11, 2010, edition of The Chronicle of Higher Education includes a review of Tiffany Gill’s new book Beauty Shop Politics: African American Women’s Activism in the Beauty Industry. […]
“Sojourner Truth’s America” wins the Darlene Clark Hine Award
Margaret Washington’s book, Sojourner Truth’s America, was selected as winner of the inaugural 2010 OAH Darlene Clark Hine Award for the best book in African American women’s and gender history. […]
“African or American?” wins award
African or American?: Black Identity and Political Activism in New York City, 1784-1861 by Leslie M. Alexander, has been awarded the Cheikh Anta Diop Award for Outstanding Scholarship in the […]
“Freeing Charles” in The Wall Street Journal
The March 26, 2010, edition of The Wall Street Journal featured a review of the new University of Illinois Press book Freeing Charles: The Struggle to Free a Slave on […]
Scott Christianson to appear on C-Span’s Book-TV
Scott Christianson, author of the new book Freeing Charles: The Struggle to Free a Slave on the Eve of the Civil War, will be featured in a Book-TV segment on […]
More Tell Me More
Following segments earlier this week on Dorothy Dandridge, Pam Grier, Whoopi Goldberg, and Oprah Winfrey, NPR’s Tell Me More wraps up its Divas on Screen feature with Halle Berry. Commentator Mia Mask: […]
Mia Mask on NPR’s “Tell Me More”
Mia Mask, author of the new book Divas on Screen: Black Women in American Film, was a featured commentator today on National Public Radio: “With the 2010 Academy Awards approaching, NPR’s Tell […]
Scott Christianson to be filmed by Book-TV
C-Span’s Book-TV plans to film Scott Christianson’s March 2, 2010, presentation on Freeing Charles: The Struggle to Free a Slave on the Eve of the Civil War at the Sanctuary for […]
Patrick Roberts Chicago media blitz
Watch Patrick Roberts, co-author of the new book Give ‘Em Soul, Richard! Race, Radio, and Rhythm and Blues in Chicago, on WGN-TV’s Midday News. Listen to Patrick Roberts on […]
Stefan Bradley on C-Span’s Book-TV
Stefan Bradley, author of the recent book Harlem vs. Columbia University: Black Student Power in the Late 1960s, is scheduled to appear on C-Span’s Book-TV on Saturday, January 30, at 2:00 […]