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Upcoming book about America’s first Black female novelist draws pre-publication buzz
Gregg Hecimovich's new book about slave novelist Hannah Crafts is due out in October. It fetches a place among 2023's 'most anticipated' books according to online magazine The Millions.
Continue ReadingSummer institute ‘Reconstructing the Black Archive’ aims to create a more complete picture of history
Scholars participating in "Reconstructing the Black Archive" will look beyond traditional archival sources to knit together a more inclusive picture of South Carolina Black history.
Continue ReadingHecimovich named a W.E.B. Du Bois Research Institute Fellow at Harvard, again
Hecimovich wins a second W.E.B. Du Bois Research Institute fellowship at Harvard's Hutchins Center for African and African American Research.
Continue ReadingHere is a hard historical truth: Slavery powerfully shaped Harvard
Tomiko Brown-Nagin, a 1992 Furman University history alumna, and Lawrence S. Bacow, president of Harvard University, write an opinion piece for The Washington Post about a report released April 26 concerning Harvard's ties to slavery...
Continue ReadingAsha Marie Larson-Baldwin named George J. Mitchell Scholar
The waiting was agonizing for Asha Marie Larson-Baldwin ’22. On the day she would learn whether she had been accepted as one of only 12 class of 2023 George J. Mitchell Scholars, Larson-Baldwin was too...
Continue ReadingHolly Pinheiro to appear in Curiosity Stream docuseries
Holly Pinheiro’s research is centered on freeborn Northern Black families and their military-related experiences from 1850-1930. So when the assistant professor of African American history got an invitation to appear on Curiosity Stream’s “Civil War...
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