Guest: Gregory P. Downs is a history professor at the University of California, Davis. He is the author of several books ...

Anthony E. Kaye and Gregory P. Downs’s “Nat Turner, Black Prophet: A Visionary History” revisits this resonant historical moment to study the influence of Wesleyan Methodism on 18th- and ...

And in New Jersey, this sobering moment in U.S. history will be commemorated for the 15th straight year at a gathering in Nat Turner Park in Newark. The People’s Organization for Progress (POP ...

How has your understanding or knowledge of African-American history changed over time? We invite you to share your story. A collection of shareable, downloadable posters created for The African ...

(Think of something like the heads only of the generals on Stone Mountain blasted off and replaced by new carved profiles of John Brown and Nat Turner). A Scary History Without Leon Trotsky’s ...

The N-word appears sparingly in James, Percival Everett’s 2024 novel that reinvents the escaped slave narrative while it ...

And history illuminates why their interpretation ... It seemed no accident that Gabriel Prosser, Denmark Vesey, and Nat Turner—who led or were alleged to have led slave revolts in 1800 ...

Play “Nat Turner Rebellion” and remind students to ... Tell students that an important part of viewing history in the context of causality is determining which events are directly related ...

Aug. 21 (UPI) --On this date in history: In 1831, Nat Turner launched a bloody slave insurrection in Southampton County, Va., leading to the deaths of 60 people. Turner, an educated minister who ...

Those of us who wonder at Reconstruction’s rejection and Emancipation’s dire legacy can learn much from this eloquent history of legal failure.’ Christopher Tomlins - author of In the Matter of Nat ...

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