David Waldstreicher teaches history at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York, and is the author of Slavery’s Constitution: From Revolution to Ratification and Runaway America: Benjamin Franklin, Slavery and the American Revolution. Most recently he has edited the Diaries of John Quincy Adams for the Library of America, and is finishing a new biography, The Odyssey of Phillis Wheatley.
Books The unapologetic guide to Black mental health : navigate an unequal system, learn tools for emotional wellness, and get the help you deserve, by Rheeda Walker Out in the rural : a Mississippi health center and its war on poverty, by Thomas J. Ward, Jr. The black...
Rana Hogarth is associate professor of history at the University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign. She holds a Ph.D. in History, with a concentration in History of Science/History of Medicine from Yale University; an M.H.S. in Health Policy from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. Her research highlights how the professionalization of medicine and the production of scientific knowledge in the Americas was bound up with the making of race.
Local History Librarian Jessica Robinson has hosted two incredible programs in the last several months dealing with Cleveland Heights-University Heights' history of integration and desegregation. The first, "Through the Ivory Curtain: The History of African Americans...
Sherri Burr is the Dickason Chair and Regents Professor Emerita at the University of New Mexico. She joined the UNM law faculty in 1988, after having received her A.B. (Politics) from Mount Holyoke College, her M.P.A (International Relations) from the Princeton School of Public and International Affairs, and her J.D. from Yale Law School.
This Black History Month why not take a moment to celebrate Black Firsts and Black Achievement? Here is a list of books currently available at Heights Libraries. Just click a link to place a hold. Timelines of African-American History: 500 Years of Black achievement...
Kelsey Klotz is a lecturer at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte. She received her PhD in Musicology with a certificate in American Studies from Washington University in St. Louis in 2016. Her research focuses on the intersection of race and sound in 1950s and 1960s American musical culture, with a particular focus on jazz.
In celebration of Martin Luther King, Jr. Day this year, here is a list of resources to learn more about the history of the federal holiday and the man we commemorate, along with videos of remembrances and Dr. King's speeches. It wasn’t until 2000 that all 50 United...
Caitlin Rosenthal is Associate Professor of History at the University of California Berkeley, where her research and teaching explore the development of management practices, especially those based on data analysis.
Today, the name "Karen" represents a faction of the population, made up of white women specifically, that is threatened by the prospect of losing its place atop a toxic, racial hierarchy rooted in the original sin of slavery. The "Karen" holds an ugly place in...