![Harriet Tubman in 1868 or 1869.](https://www.thenation.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/Jackson-Harriet_Tubman.jpg)
The Many Lives of Harriet Tubman The Many Lives of Harriet Tubman
Tiya Miles’s Night Flyer is a landmark biography of one of 19th-century America’s most important figures.
Jul 2, 2024 / Books & the Arts / Kellie Carter Jackson
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The Many Lives of Samuel Ringgold Ward The Many Lives of Samuel Ringgold Ward
Books & the Arts / October 18, 2023 The Creed of Liberty The remarkable life of Samuel Ringgold Ward. The Many Lives of Samuel Ringgold Ward R.J.M. Blackett’s new biography…
Oct 18, 2023 / Books & the Arts / Kellie Carter Jackson
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What the Grimkes’s Family History Tells Us About the United States What the Grimkes’s Family History Tells Us About the United States
In The Grimkes, historian Kerri Greenidge offers a powerful and unique account of this family's history—an account that offers tales of slavery, violence, loss, resilience, and red...
Nov 30, 2022 / Books & the Arts / Kellie Carter Jackson
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The United States’ First Civil Rights Movement The United States’ First Civil Rights Movement
A new history charts the radical agitation around Black rights and freedom back to the early nineteenth century.
Jun 16, 2021 / Books & the Arts / Kellie Carter Jackson