# John Hope Franklin
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john hope franklin (January 2, 1915 – March 25, 2009) was an American historian of the United States and former president of Phi Beta Kappa, the Organization of American Historians, the American Historical Association, and the Southern Historical Association. Franklin is best known for his work From Slavery to Freedom, first published in 1947, and continually updated. More than three million copies have been sold.
George Washington Williams
George Washington Williams was one of the first people to publicly describe the atrocities being carried out in the Congo Free State under King Leopold II of Belgium. But so much happened in his life before that.
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Berry, Dorothy. “George Washington Williams’ History of the Negro Race i…
Ep. 18 - Celebrating Black History Month with Dr. George Reid
During Black History Month, we honor the rich history of African American culture, resilience, and contributions that have shaped what we have today. Black History Month is a time to reflect on the struggles and triumphs of black Americans throughout history, from civil rights leaders and activists…
Episode 53: Nobody Else Has My Eyes
Sojourner Truth, copyright by Nell Irvin Painter, 2022: reprinted with permission of the artist.
On July 21, 2023, amid a culture war manufactured by Republican party activists, Vice President Kamala Harris gave a speech in Jacksonville, FL. The occasion? A set of standards for t…
Nick Witham, "Popularizing the Past: Historians, Publishers, and Readers in Postwar America" (U Chicago Press, 2023)
In this lively and far-reaching text, Nick Witham (University College London) tells the stories of five postwar historians who changed the way ordinary Americans thought about their nation’s history.
For decades, critics of the discipline have argued that the historical profession is dominated by s…
Scott Kamen, "From Union Halls to the Suburbs: Americans for Democratic Action and the Transformation of Postwar Liberalism" (U Massachusetts Press, 2023)
For decades, Americans for Democratic Action (ADA) was perhaps the most influential multi-issue organization in American liberalism. The first book-length study of the ADA since 1986, Scott Kamen’s From Union Halls to the Suburbs: Americans for Democratic Action and the Transformation of Postwar Li…
US Immigration and Abolitionist Sanctuary: A Conversation with A. Naomi Paik and Arianna Salgado
Naomi Paik is the author of Bans, Walls, Raids, Sanctuary: Understanding U.S. Immigration for the 21st Century (2020, University of California Press) and Rightlessness: Testimony and Redress in U.S. Prison Camps since World War II (2016, UNC Press; winner, Best Book in History, AAAS 2018; runner-up…
“The truth is the truth is the truth”
Elizabeth Alexander and Nicole Sealey on the treasures of archives, the work of a generation, and the resonant truth you feel in your bones.
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“Praise Song for the Day” from Crave Radiance: New and Selected Poems 1990-2010 by Elizabeth Alexander
“Tina Green” from America…
A. Naomi Paik and Ashley Dawson on the Close Connection between Abolition Sanctuary and Environmental Activism from Below
Today on Speaking Out of Place we talk with scholar-activists Naomi Paik and Ashley Dawson about the close connection between abolition and environmental activism from below. How are the twin projects raising profound questions about borders, carcerality, enclosures, and the separation of humans fr…
Annual Pitt Professor Beth Bailey, 'Making Change: Why the US Army Matters'
"Of course, it's an institution of social change. Because it has to manage all of the social changes that are taking place in society—because it's pulling people in."
In this episode, we're joined by special guest Beth Bailey, the 2025–26 Pitt Professor of American History and Institutions at the …
Why Textbook Companies Protect Racism, Xenophobia, and Genocide
In 1919, Mildred LewisRutherford, Historian General of the United Daughters of the Confederacy, distributed a pamphlet to school boards across the South specifying which history textbooks were acceptable and which were not. Acceptable books had todescribe slavery as a benevolent institution. They h…
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