Getting Word
An oral history project deepens our understanding of U.S. history by sharing accounts of the community descended from people enslaved by Thomas Jefferson.
Jean Toomer
Toomer is one of American literature’s greatest enigmas and “Cane” one of our finest texts. What Toomer bore witness to in “Cane” is America’s waking nightmare. “Cane” is our living inheritance.
Michel-Rolph Trouillot
Trouillot had no truck for the trivialization of history. “We are never as steeped in history as when we pretend not to be,” Trouillot writes.
“Long Past Slavery”
Catherine Stewart’s exemplary “Long Past Slavery” is a lodestar to follow as historians read and reread the polyvocal Slave Narrative Collection to learn more about slavery, its legacies, and the pasts of the present.
America Dreaming
Americans have a penchant for selective memory. This forgetfulness imperils our future.