History Seminar Highlights Research Challenges
Be prepared to find material you might not expect, and always be skeptical of your…
Slavery
African Burial Ground to be Rededicated
The African American Burial Monument in Lower Manhattan will mark its tenth anniversary with five…
Bentley Anderson: Defining Differences
“If you’re a Southerner whose family settled in the South prior to the Civil War, you are the offspring of…
Symposium to Examine Church’s Role in Slavery
Retired lawyer and historian John Cummings believes slavery is America’s greatest sin, and that it…
NY1’s Cheryl Wills Celebrates GSE’s Centennial Anniversary
In celebration of the Graduate School of Education’s centennial anniversary, New York One News anchor…
Ever Rising: An Artist’s Take on the Ways We Remember—and Forget—the Troubled History of Race Relations in America
In a series of paper collages titled Everything That Rises, Fordham artist-in-residence Casey Ruble depicts…
Historian Broadens Narrative of Slavery in the Americas
(Editor’s note: In February 2018, Miki published the results of her research below as Frontiers of…
Lives of Enslaved Women Honored in UN Symposium
Though countless African women and their descendants were enslaved, exploited, and oppressed in the United…
Historian Looks Back at a Complicated History of Slavery and Education
Craig S. Wilder, Ph.D., FCRH’87, head of the history faculty at the Massachusetts Institute of…